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Writing the Ancestras -- guest speaker/author Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro

Monday, 25 September, 2023

"Writing the Ancestras: Journaling Decolonization thru Afrofeminism and Afrofuturism" -- a talk by Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro 

Co-Sponsored by the Office of Equity and Diversity, Office of the Provost, The Gail and Francis Slattery Center for Ignatian Humanities, Latin American and Latinx Studies, and the Dept. of World Languages and Cultures

September 25, 5:30 pm, Brennan Rose Room 509

We are pleased to welcome writer Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, the Director of the Department of AfroPuertoRican Studies, a performative project of Creative Writing based at the Casa Museo Ashford in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She is also the founder and chair of Ancestral Black Women in response to the call by UNESCO to celebrate the International Decade for People of African Descent. Negras and her other published work promote the discussion of Afro identity and sexual diversity.  

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Dr. Yamile Silva

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Brennan Hall, Rose Room (509)

320 Madison Avenue
 Scranton, PA 18510