See below Sincerely, The English Department http://english.qc.cuny.edu/ Klapper 607 718-997-4600 From: Vanessa Perez-Rosario <Vanessa.Perez-Rosario@qc.cuny.edu> Sent: Monday, December 7, 2020 3:20 PM Subject: Tomorrow (12/8): Cherrie Moraga in conversation Off the Page: Cherríe Moraga in Conversation Please join us tomorrow! December 8 at 7pm See details below to register. [https://mcusercontent.com/b639f7fe2513161506fe829d9/images/95a677e8-d0cf-4d2...] Off the Page: Cherríe Moraga and Vanessa Pérez-Rosario in Conversation Tuesday, December 8 from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Join the Kupferberg Center for the Arts for a conversation with acclaimed poet and author Cherríe Moraga and QC professor and author Vanessa Pérez-Rosario (English). The event will stream on Kupferberg's social media channels: www.facebook.com/KupferbergCenterArts<https://gle.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b639f7fe2513161506fe829d9&id=aba859a9f4&e=3d200d5b1d> and www.youtube.com/kupferbergcenter<https://gle.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b639f7fe2513161506fe829d9&id=2a990c5765&e=3d200d5b1d>. Cherríe Moraga is an internationally recognized poet, essayist, and playwright whose professional life began in 1981 with her co-editorship of the groundbreaking feminist anthology, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. The author of several collections of her own writings, including: A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness, Loving in The War Years, and Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood, Moraga is the recipient of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship for Literature and the American Studies Association Lifetime Achievement Award, among numerous other honors. As a dramatist, her awards include an NEA, two Fund for New American Plays Awards, and the PEN West Award. In 2017, Moraga's most recent play, The Mathematics of Love, premiered at Brava Theater Center in San Francisco. In the fall of 2017, she began her tenure as a professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where with her artistic partner, Celia Herrera Rodriguez, she has instituted Las Maestras Center: Xicana[x] Indigenous Thought, Art, and Social Practice. Her most recent work, Native Country of the Heart, a memoir, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2019. Faculty, staff, and students can reserve a free ticket by following the link below: http://kupferbergcenter.org/event/off-the-page-cherrie-moraga-and-vanessa-perez-rosario-in-conversation/<https://gle.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b639f7fe2513161506fe829d9&id=b653a40bd2&e=3d200d5b1d> Vanessa Pérez-Rosario, Ph.D. English Department Queens College Managing Editor, Small Axe www.smallaxe.net<http://www.smallaxe.net/> Becoming Julia de Burgos<http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/63khp3hk9780252038969.html> available from IllinoisUP