SAFE Shimmy SLAM: An Eruption of Prose Poetry & Performance
Fri, Feb 3, 2012
6:00 PM
The MTA’s public safety campaign, “If You See Something, Say Something. Call: 1-888-NYC-SAFE,” is now so ubiquitous that we seem no longer to see it. And yet, ten years after 9/11, this posture of heightened scrutiny and perpetual estrangement as an expression of our continued concern with matters of safety and securitization remains. Join us for a decidedly unconventional gathering, in celebration of the publication of SAFE Issue (edited by Alyson Cole and Kyoo Lee), Women’s Studies Quarterly (Vol. 39, Nos. 1&2, Spr/Sum 2011),resembling more of a poetry slam than an academic panel, where a variety of artists, activists and scholars will reflect on what they have seen and “say something” in return. The prose and poetry will be followed by interpretative neo-burlesque performances. With writers, scholars and performers Linda AlcoffPatricia Clough; Hamid DabashiElena GlasbergBrenda IijimaDelores Jones-BrownJasbir PuarAvital RonellAnn SnitowJack TchenThe Lady AyeNasty Canasta.
Cosponsored by ReOrientale: Rethinking Orientalism and other Global Oddities Working Group.
