A panel in celebration of Earth Day sponsored by Eugene Lang College's Global Studies and CESJ department and the University Student Senate.
About this Event
Dia de Sol (Diasporas Decolonizing in Solidarity) presents a zoom panel for Earth week, "Healing Tongues: Revitalizing Oral Traditions & The Struggle for Climate Justice," on April 23, 2021, from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. EST. The panel will be featuring Lily Mendoza from the Center for Babaylan Studies (CFBS), Nazka Serrano, a Kichwa Warmi community organizer and story keeper, Mare Advertencia Lirika, a Zapotec rapper, feminist, and migrant from Oaxaca, Mexico, and Naawéiyaa Austin Tagaba, a basket weaver, screen printer, musician, language learner and teacher from Native Movement Alaska. Together, we will gather in a discussion of language revitalization, land defense and climate justice, Indigenous feminism, oral traditions, and decolonization.