About this Event
This is a conversation on rematriation with Brea Baker and Chelsea T. Hicks (Xuedoin) you don't want to miss! Hosted by Kalup Linzy at Queen Rose Art House.
Topics include rematriation as an empowering force and practice that strengthens acts of repair.
About The Authors
Brea Baker is a freedom fighter and writer (in that order) who has been working on the frontlines for over a decade, first as a student activist and now as a movement journalist and national organizer. Brea contributes reported op-eds and personal essays to Refinery 29 Unbothered, ELLE, Harper’s BAZAAR, and more. As a sought-after speaker and anti-racism consultant, Brea believes deeply in political imagination and the need for nuanced storytelling. Her book, Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft & The Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership, is about her family’s experiences across the South and why reparations is a critical economic, racial, and environmental justice policy that we need to embrace. For her work in coalition with other activists and organizers, Brea has been recognized as a 2023 Creative Capital awardee, a 2017 Glamour Woman of the Year and 2019 i-D Up and Rising. She has a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University where she held internships with the U.S. Department of State and Public Defender Service DC, as well as having served as President of Yale’s NAACP Chapter and Co-Director of AIDS Walk New Haven. Brea is on the board of Black Farmers’ Market, and is a cohort member of The Highland Project and the BLIS Collective.
Chelsea Tayrien Hicks, 𐓸𐓶𐓟𐓰𐓫͘ “Looking to the Eagle” or Xuedoin, (she/they) is a storyteller and interdisciplinary artist. She was awarded the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award in 2023, and her writing has been published in Poetry, McSweeney’s, World Literature Today, Yellow Medicine Review, the LA Review of Books, Indian Country Today, the Believer, The Audacity, The Paris Review, and elsewhere and shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Manetti Shrem, the Tulsa Artist Fellowship and elsewhere. She has been pictured on Vogue.com, and her work has served as the cover of magazines such as World Literature Today. She is a past Writing By Writers Fellow, a 2016 Wah-Zha-Zhi Woman Artist featured by the Osage Nation Museum, a 2020 finalist for the Eliza So Fellowship for Native American women writers, a Native Arts & Cultures Foundation 2021 LIFT Awardee, and a 2022-2023 Tulsa Artist Fellow. Her first book A Calm & Normal Heart was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for debut short story collection.
Bring your questions, thoughts and curiosities on Black and Indigenous solidarity and Rematriation!
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Queen Rose Art House, 843 North Birmingham Place, Tulsa, United States
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