Feminist Friday scholars facilitate discussions that often provoke dissonance as well as attend to the intersections of one’s identity and how they interact with structural systems of dominance and oppression. Scholars are not expected to be knowledge experts, only to care about the topic they’ve chosen and be willing to learn more about it. Feminist…
The Brown Bag Speaker Series presents "African American English in Context: Hearing Race" with Yolanda Feimster Holt, an associate professor of communication sciences and disorders at East Carolina University. For some time, efforts to categorize talker race have been attempted. This project evaluated listener categorization of talker socio-ethnic race. Familiar North Carolina and naïve (Indiana)…
Across NC State’s history, many Pack members — including powerful decision-makers, students, professors and staff — upheld white supremacy within and outside the school as an increasing number of campus community members confronted and disrupted racist hierarchies. This tension remains part of the school's buildings, from the land on which the structures stand to the…
Across NC State’s history, many Pack members — including powerful decision-makers, students, professors and staff — upheld white supremacy within and outside the school as an increasing number of campus community members confronted and disrupted racist hierarchies. This tension remains part of the school's buildings, from the land on which the structures stand to the…
Join NC State LIVE for Black Feminist Theoretic Poetic Musings, a multidisciplinary performance centered in the narrative of three artists who will share poetic and musical perspectives of their lived experience navigating this country and world as Black women. The artists are: Shana Tucker, NC State LIVE's social justice artist-in-residence and beloved cellist and vocalist.Renowned…
Our Futures is a program that provides an opportunity for chosen community members to engage in intimate and ongoing conversations with our students about life, careers, etc. while identifying as LGBTQ in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area. The program aims to help our students envision possibilities for their futures. Our Futures is a two-part conversation. Join…
Across NC State’s history, many Pack members — including powerful decision-makers, students, professors and staff — upheld white supremacy within and outside the school as an increasing number of campus community members confronted and disrupted racist hierarchies. This tension remains part of the school's buildings, from the land on which the structures stand to the…
In the summer of 1961, the Freedom Riders are embarking on a courageous journey into the Deep South. When 20-year-old Bowzie Brandon gives up a life-changing college scholarship to join the movement, he’ll have to convince his loved ones—and himself—that shaping his country’s future might be worth jeopardizing his own. The Out Loud series is…
The African American Cultural Center is hosting virtual connect/collaborative spaces throughout the semester. You can collaborate and connect with community members and peers while studying, relaxing, playing games and more. Registration is required for each session.
This presentation defines microaggressions and addresses the types of microaggressions experienced by the LGBTQ community on a daily basis. It offers approaches for recognizing and responding to these microaggressions when they occur.