The Black Took Collective is a performance group composed of three award-winning LGBTQ Black poet-performers: Duriel Harris, Dawn Lundy Martin, and Ronaldo V. Wilson. This event will consist of live writing, poetry, music, dance, drawing, film, and critical race theory presented in an engaging and lively format designed to encourage reconsideration of identity, language, and embodiment and enlist audience participation and conversation. Date | December 9 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Location | Online event The Black Took are queer post-theorists who embody intersectionality, perform and write in hybrid experimental forms, and embrace radical poetics and cutting-edge critical theory about race, gender, and sexuality, all while inviting audiences to participate and engage in the same. The Black Took Collective challenges both popular conceptions of racial identity as well as conventional artistic practices. Their performance events are unforgettable. Get your free tickets here! CSUSM Students: Free Community: Optional donation Faculty/Staff/Alumni: Optional donation Co-sponsors: CHABSS Dean’s Office, Ethnic Studies Research Collaboratory, FMST, LTWR, WGSS For more information, please visit csusm.edu/al or email gjones@csusm.edu.
