{"id":2089,"date":"2016-06-21T18:34:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T18:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/cas\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2024-07-12T16:11:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T16:11:58","slug":"phenom-fire-2016-at-um-flint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/case\/2016\/06\/21\/phenom-fire-2016-at-um-flint\/","title":{"rendered":"Phenom Fire 2016 at UM-Flint"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PhenomFire<\/a><\/p>\n

On Friday, June 24, 2016<\/strong>, the University of Michigan-Flint will host Phenom Fire: A Talk About Feminism, Womanism, and Female Fusion<\/strong>. This symposium aims to be “intentional about cross cultural conversations. A dialogue about intersectionality.”<\/p>\n

The event will feature break out sessions, a lunch with performances, a panel discussion, and end with a finale performance in the UM-Flint Kiva.\u00a0Phenom Fire is free and open to the public<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Says organizer and faculty member in the UM-Flint Communication Studies program Dr. Traci Currie, “This event comes out of a lunch conversation with two colleagues who are passionate about the work women do and the way we as women and men define ourselves (i.e. womanist, feminist, neither, both, activist, ally, so forth). With the support and encouragement from so many like the Women’s Educational Center and community partners, this symposium wonderfully\u00a0[came]\u00a0together. This event is a labor of love.”<\/p>\n

Dr. Erica Britt, Assistant Professor of Sociolinguistics in UM-Flint’s English Department added, “I’m basically looking forward to the chance to have real conversations about our different experiences of race and gender (among other things) and the ways that our personal insights can influence a broader movement for social change within our institution and in the community. \u00a0I am particularly eager for this given that women, men, and queer people of color are often marginalized in institutional structures. \u00a0This symposium will allow us to really amplify voices that are often not ‘heard.’ \u00a0Overall, I’m looking forward to having uncomfortable but deep and healing conversations, because I really believe that these types of conversations are key for building solidarity and stimulating our collective desire to create lasting social change.”<\/p>\n

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Dr. Erica Britt, Assistant Professor of Sociolinguistics at UM-Flint<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dr. Britt will be speaking in Breakout Session 1: Race & Feminism at 10:30am in Michigan Room A.<\/p>\n

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Phenom Fire 2016 Schedule:<\/h2>\n

10am:<\/strong> Introduction, UCEN\u00a0Happening Room<\/h4>\n

Emcee for the symposium is Leah Bailey.<\/p>\n

10:30am-11:50am:<\/strong> Breakout Sessions, UCEN Michigan Rooms<\/h4>\n