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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nWednesday, October 09, 2024 7:00 pm to 9:
 30 pm \n I\nis Town Hall \n I\nis College \n 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto, ON M
 5S 1J5 \n\nSpeakers \nKatherine McKittrick \n\nDescription: \nYou're invit
 ed to a special lecture by the JHI's 2024-25 Distinguished Visiting Fellow
 , Katherine McKittrick—A Smile Split by the Stars: On nourbeSe philip’s R
 evolutionary Intention. McKittrick is Professor of Gender Studies and Cana
 da Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston. A re
 ception with light refreshments will follow.AbstractPlaced at the centre o
 f NourbeSe Philip’s award-winning poetry book, She Tries Her Tongue, Her
  Silence Softly Breaks, “Meditations on the Declension of Beauty by the G
 irl with the Flying Cheek-bones” is a two-page poem that exposes the limit
 s of colonial visual practices by simultaneously dwelling on and unravelin
 g the textual-corporeal meanings of black femininity. The poem is punctuat
 ed by colonial descriptive statements that visually mark black womanhood (
 lips, hair, shape, cheekbones, and so on); yet Philip uses language a
 nd form—what I am calling a poetics of declension—to call into question th
 e enfleshed categories that, in fact, make black femininity visually pos
 sible. Working alongside an audio archive that will be shared at the prese
 ntation, this working paper will work through how Philip textually unmake
 s blackness and gender without abandoning the optic terms of coloniality,
  thus poetically expressing what Sylvia Wynter calls a “revolutionary inte
 ntion.”This event is free and open to all. Light refreshments will be serv
 ed so we do ask that you register so that we can get the catering numbers 
 right. \n\nSponsors \nJackman Humanities Institute \n2 Sussex Ave, Toront
 o, ON M5S 1J5 \n\nCategories \n JHI EventLecture \n\nAudiences \n All
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LOCATION:2 Sussex Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5
SUMMARY:A Smile Split by the Stars
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