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FW: Freedom Zines Launch Event (Social Practice CUNY), June 18

  • Posted by Luke Waltzer (he/him) on June 3, 2025 at 2:47 pm

    See attached for a flyer for a zine launch event June 18th, 7-8:30 at The Word is Change Bookstore in Brooklyn.

    Best,
    Luke

    —
    Luke Waltzer, Ph.D.
    Director, Teaching and Learning Center
    The Graduate Center, CUNY
    365 Fifth Avenue, Room 3300.19
    New York, NY 10016
    http://cuny.is/teaching

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    Our Literacies Are Ambulatory: Freedom Zines as Pedagogical Backchannels

    During this interactive panel, attendees will be presented with a brief history of the Sea Island Citizenship schools and the Mississippi Freedom Summer schools, as well as a description of the Freedom Zines workshop. Attendees will also be asked to think about and discuss their early writing experiences by the panel moderator. Then, Freedom Zines participants will discuss and share their zine-making process, followed by a Q&A. Zines will also be distributed to all event attendees.

    About:
    Freedom Zines is a public writing project that asks participants to investigate their relationships with writing and, by extension, explore their social and political identities. This project explores how the writing workshop can function as a communal, mobile literacy site—and how it embodies the historically ambulatory nature of Black literacies in the mid-20th century American South. It also frames the writing workshop as a byproduct of historically significant mobile writing spaces. In the face of ChatGPT and other services that purport to write for us, this project proposes that now, more than ever, we should center the act of writing as a way to engage our social and political identities. The histories of Black literacy movements in the U.S. South serve as a guidepost for this project because they remind us that writing can be a responsive, community- oriented action.

    From: Chy Sprauve <[email protected]>
    Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
    To: Luke Waltzer <[email protected]>
    Subject: Freedom Zines Launch Event (Social Practice CUNY)
    Hi Luke!

    Hope you’re finding time to unwind from the semester. I’m writing to ask if you could share this flyer (attached) with your networks.

    Have a sunny and relaxing summer!

    Chy

    Chy Sprauve, Ph.D (Chy/she/they)
    Assistant Professor of Black, Race and Ethnic Studies (English Dept.)
    Coordinator, Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Concentration
    Queensborough Community College / CUNY
    chysprauve.com(http://chysprauve.com)

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