Global Queer Research Group: Sexual Politics in the Era of Transnationalism, Diasporas and Postcoloniality

The GQRG wants to send a big thank you to Ari Belathar for a wonderful night of poetry and discussion!

Thank you to our volunteer discussants, Kerri Mesner (PhD Student CCFI), Dr. Pilar Riano Alcala (School of Social Work), Dr. Juanita Sundberg (Geography, UBC) and Matt Eisenbrandt (Canadian Centre for International Justice).

The event was a great success! Thank you to our co-conspirators The TJN, The Migration Network, and Gender and Sexuality in Latin America.

This night could not have happened without the generous support of our sponsors. A big thank you to the Liu Institute for Global Issues, Latin American Studies, Critical Studies in Sexuality Program, The School of Social Work, The Faculty of Arts and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice.

Thank you again Ari for sharing your passion and voice with us. It was a magical night!

Check out the pictures below.

It’s that time of year again!

The Global Queer Research Group will be having it’s first fall meeting. Everyone is welcome to attend! It’s a great opportunity to meet GQRG members and share ideas.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2nd

3:00 TO 4:30pm

2nd Floor Board room,

LIU INSTITUTE

I don’t Cross borders – the borders come to me and I dance with them

A poet, playwrite and refugee reflection on the borders of transition and justice

An inviation to YOU to learn about and join the wide range of networks and groups at the Liu Institue, including: Transitional Justice Network (TJN), Migration Network, Gloabl Queer Research Group (GQRG) and the Research Group on Gender and Sexuality in Latin America.

Thursday September 20, 2012

at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at UBC ,

 5-7pm

Ari Belathar is a Mexican poet and playwright in exile. Between 1994 and 2001, she facilitated creative writing and popular theatre workshops for indigenous women and children throughout Mexico. She was also a founding member of the first Mexican community radio station during the student strike at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1999. After being kidnapped and tortured by the Mexican National Army in 2001 due to her work as an independent journalist and human rights activist, she escaped to Canada.  Ari has published poetry in literary journals and anthologies around the world. In 2009, Belathar published her first collection of poetry in English The Cities I left Behind by Radish Press. She is currently working on a play, La Danza del Venando, regarding the stories, lives and deaths on the US/Mexican border
Ari’s provocative poetry will be followed by a facilitated discusison by invited guests involved in the theory and practice of art, politics and change: Dr. Juanita Sundberg (Geography, UBC), Reverend Kerri Mesner (PhD, candidate, co-founder of GQRG), Matt Eisenbrand (Canadian Centre for International Justice) and Dr. Pilar Riano-Alcala (School of Social Work, UBC)

Please RSVP at www.ligi.ubc.ca/events/register.htm

Thursday, Sept. 20th
12:30-2:30
Rm 028, Jack Bell Building

The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSSJ)
The Centre for Race Autobiography Gender and Age (RAGA)
& Critical Studies in Sexuality (CSIS)

is proud to host Mexican artist and activist Ari Belathar

Ari Belathar is a Mexican poet and playwright in exile. A participant in Artscape’s Gibraltar Point International Artists Residency Program, she has published poetry in literary journals and anthologies around the world. Belathar published her first collection of poetry in English, The Cities I Left Behind by Radish Press. Currently Belathar is working on the development of La Danza del Venado, a multidisciplinary play inspired by her own experience of illegally crossing the border into the United States as a child to reunite with her father.

Please join us for this unique and rare event.

Ari will present a collection of her poetry and writings, followed by a question and answer session.

Lunch will be served.

PLEASE RSVP HERE: http://aribelathar.eventbrite.com