Education As Liberation Episode 2

13/07/2020 53 min Temporada 1 Episodio 2

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Episode Synopsis

Decolonizing Education pt. 2
WHBLE founder, Ah-Keisha McCants talks with playwright, stage director, performance artist, documentary filmmaker, educator, and activist Dr. H. "Herukhuti" Sharif Williams about what he calls, “Erotic epistemology” as well as transformative and revolutionary practices and the power of embodied learning techniques and liberatory traditions in decolonizing education.

H. "Herukhuti" Sharif Williams is a playwright, stage director, performance artist, documentary filmmaker, educator, and activist. His work has been performed at the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, New York International Fringe Theatre Festival, and The Village of Arts and Humanities. He is the founder and chief erotics officer of the Center for Culture, Sexuality, and Spirituality, a social enterprise committed to Black liberation through erotic empowerment. He is a professor of interdisciplinary studies, decolonial sexuality, and socially engaged arts at Goddard College and adjunct associate professor of applied theatre research at the City University of New York, School of Professional Studies. His current projects include "No Homo | No Hetero," a documentary film about Black bisexual men, "Telling Our Stories," a documentary film about racism and racial justice activism at Goddard College, and In the Vally of Coming Forth, an Afrofuturist, post-apocalyptic play about destroying white supremacy.

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