{"id":40769,"date":"2015-04-16T23:09:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T23:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40769"},"modified":"2016-10-26T22:37:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T22:37:03","slug":"jennifer-lisa-vest-to-explore-post-racial-present-at-womens-and-gender-studies-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40769","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lisa Vest to explore \u2018post-racial present\u2019 at Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stories.illinoisstate.edu\/university\/media-relations\/jennifer-lisa-vest-to-explore-post-racial-present-at-womens-and-gender-studies-symposium\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Jennifer Lisa Vest to explore \u2018post-racial present\u2019 at Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Symposium<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stories.illinoisstate.edu\/media-relations\/report\/\" target=\"_blank\">Report: Faculty\/Staff Newsletter<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.illinoisstate.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Illinois State University<\/a><br \/>\n2015-04-02<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:rkhatch@ilstu.edu\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rachel Hatch<\/strong><\/a>, Editor<\/p>\n<p>Performing artist and scholar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jenniferlisavest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Lisa Vest<\/a> will be the keynote speaker for the 20th annual Women\u2019s and Gender Studies (WGS) Symposium.<\/p>\n<p>Vest will present <em>Black Lives Matter: [Trans]Gender Violence, Disability, and Women in a \u2018Post-racial,\u2019 \u2018Post-Sexist\u2019<\/em> Present at 1 p.m. Friday, April 17, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/bonestudentcenter.illinoisstate.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bone Student Center<\/a>. The talk is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>In celebration of the event, there will be a poetry reading at 7 p.m. Thursday April 16, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/finearts.illinoisstate.edu\/galleries\/\" target=\"_blank\">University Galleries<\/a>, 11 Uptown Circle, Normal.<\/p>\n<p>Vest is a self-described \u201cmixed-race queer feminist philosopher, poet, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/artivist\" target=\"_blank\">artivist<\/a> whose philopoetic works combine philosophy, poetry and feminist theories to provide intersectional analyses of social justice issues by explicating raced, gendered, and sexualized components of privilege, ablelism, and oppression.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/stories.illinoisstate.edu\/university\/media-relations\/jennifer-lisa-vest-to-explore-post-racial-present-at-womens-and-gender-studies-symposium\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Lisa Vest to explore \u2018post-racial present\u2019 at Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Symposium Report: Faculty\/Staff Newsletter Illinois State University 2015-04-02 Rachel Hatch, Editor Performing artist and scholar Jennifer Lisa Vest will be the keynote speaker for the 20th annual Women\u2019s and Gender Studies (WGS) Symposium. 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