SX Live

Date: Friday, 30th October

Time: 10am EST

From the Institute of Jamaica:

From the Dark Laboratory website:

In this virtual showcase, students from Tao Leigh Goffe’s Cornell seminar “Archipelagoes: A Digital Decolonial Lab” will present their final collaborative project a glossary of terms for decolonization. The glossary will center mother tongues of Indigenous language, creoles, pidgin, and patwas. Tao Leigh Goffe has contributed to Small Axe and sx salon, and will appear in the upcoming issue 63 of the journal. 

Date: Thursday, 22nd October

Time: 4:30pm EST

From Stony Brook Latin American and Caribbean Studies:

A conversation with contemporary queer Caribbean writers Yaissa Jiménez (República Dominicana), Johan Mijail (República Dominicana), Ángel Antonio Ruiz (Puerto Rico) y Juan de Dios Sánchez (Colombia)

Columbia University's news page recently interviewed the hosts of Zora's Daughters, PhD anthropology students Brendane Tynes and Alyssa James, who also works as an editorial assistant for Small Axe. Read the Q&A here.

Date: Thursday, 22nd October

Time: 4pm EST

Amongst a line-up of other esteemed poets, sx salon creative editor Rosamond S. King will lead a close reading of Natalie Diaz’s “My Brother at 3 A.M.” for the Flow Chat's Foundation's fall/winter 2020 CLOSE READINGS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE season. Read more on the Flow Chart's Foundation's website.

Date: Thursday 24rd September
Time: 3:30PM on Zoom

Zoom meeting details:
https://stonybrook.zoom.us/j/96003849213?pwd=YUdEc0JkcEtTKzZzclNHUHVheXM4UT09

Meeting ID: 960 0384 9213
Passcode: 605356
 

Date: Monday, 28th September
Time: 7:30pm

Discover your next favorite New York reading series! The Reading Series of New York collective is excited to feature readers from five of New York’s finest reading series. Each curator will introduce a writer who epitomizes the spirit of their series – featuring Rosamond S. King (Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon), Stacie Evans (Big Words, etc.), Malcolm Tariq (Maracuyá Peach Reading Series), I.S. Jones (Angry Reading Series), Marwa Helal (Soul Sister Revue), and Rachel Eliza Griffiths (First Person Plural Reading Series)!

From Black Women Radicals' Twitter:

We are excited to launch our "Caribbean Feminisms Series", a four-part digital event series hosted & curated by Nana Yeboaa Afua Brantuo & Dr. Andrea N .Baldwin. The series pays homage to historical & contemporary Caribbean feminists & feminisms.

The first event of the series, "Digital Caribbean Feminisms", is on Thurs., Sept. 24 @ 4:30 PM ET. Panelists include: Dr. Tonya Haynes, Zainab Floyd, Dr. Angelique V. Nixon and Kenita Placide. 

Small Axe editorial assistant Alyssa A.L. James and Brendane Tynes co-host Zora's Daughters, a bi-weekly podcast that uses Black feminist anthropology to think through race, politics, and popular culture. Together, they theorize social issues in a way that is accessible and entertaining, with a syllabus for each episode. Episodes are available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, and more.

Date: Sunday, August 30
Time: 1:30 pm EST
Instagram/IGTV: @nationalgalleryofjamaica 
YouTube: National Gallery of Jamaica

From the National Gallery of Jamaica website: