Latina/o Studies Program presents a book talk with Dr. Hilda Lloréns on Tuesday, March 8th, at 4:00 pm (Zoom), Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice.
Brief abstract: When Hurricanes Irma and María made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017, their destructive force further devastated an archipelago already pummeled by economic austerity, political upheaval, and environmental calamities. To navigate these ongoing multiple crises, Afro–Puerto Rican women have drawn from their cultural knowledge to engage in daily improvisations that enable their communities to survive and thrive. Their life-affirming practices, developed and passed down through generations, offer powerful modes of resistance to gendered and racialized exploitation, ecological ruination, and deepening capitalist extraction. Through solidarity, reciprocity, and an ethics of care, these women create restorative alternatives to dispossession to produce good, meaningful lives for their communities.
Making Livable Worlds weaves together autobiography, ethnography, interviews, memories, and fieldwork to recast narratives that continuously erase Black Puerto Rican women as agents of social change. In doing so, Lloréns serves as an "ethnographer of home" as she brings to life the powerful histories and testimonies of a marginalized, disavowed community that has been treated as disposable.
Registration for this event is now closed.
Free and open to all. If you have questions, please email latinxstudies@osu.edu.
Please also consider joining the in-person watch party hosted by ODI at the Latinx Student Success Center:
Rm 200 Hale Hall, 154 W. 12th Avenue
Refreshments served starting at 3:30 PM!
This event will be presented with automated closed captions through Zoom. If you wish to request traditional CART services or other accommodations, please contact latina-ostudies@osu.edu. Requests made by about 10 days before the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
