
01/17/2025
2070 People’s Encyclopedia Zine Making Workshop with Walidah Imarisha
Friday, January 31, 2025 • 2-4 p.m.
Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center
Open to OSU faculty, staff, and students • RSVP with [email protected]
Workshop presented by Walidah Imarisha, an educator and writer. She is the co-editor of two anthologies, "Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements," and "Another World is Possible." Imarisha is the author of "Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison and Redemption," which won a 2017 Oregon Book Award, as well as the poetry collection "Scars/Stars." She has received a Tiptree Fellowship for her science fiction writing. She is the writer and co-producer of "Space to Breathe" (2024), a documentary/science fiction hybrid film set in an abolitionist future. Imarisha currently teaches in Portland State University’s Black Studies Department and is the director of PSU’s Center for Black Studies. In the past, she has taught at Stanford University, Oregon State University and Pacific Northwest College of the Arts.
Sponsored by Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Affirming Multivocal Humanities from the Mellon Foundation.
Walidah Imarisha: Dreaming and Building Just Futures Lecture
Friday, January 31, 2025 • 5-6 pm
Memorial Union Journey Room
Open to OSU faculty, staff, and students • RSVP with [email protected]
In this workshop with Walidah Imarisha, participants will imagine themselves 50 years in the future and engage in writing entries for the 2070 People’s Encyclopedia about current issues and events now, as a way of imagining how the world today can lead to the world we want.
Sponsored by Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Affirming Multivocal Humanities from the Mellon Foundation.
School of Language, Culture, and Society at Oregon State University
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University