Join us on Thursday, Sept 17th, 6:30pm, UU Chesapeake rooms as Staceyann Chin discusses intersecting identities and activism through her spoken word pieces.
Staceyann Chin is a spoken-word poet, performing artist, and activist of Chinese-Jamaican and Afro-Jamaican descent. She is best known as a co-writer and original performer in the Tony Award Winning Russel Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway. Her activist-driven work has been featured in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Huffington Post, and various books. From the Nuyorican Poets’ Cafe to one-woman shows Off- Broadway to acting in Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe and performing in both the stage and film versions of Howard Zinn’s Voices of a People’s History of the United States, to starring in the Tony nominated, Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, she uses her work to question the oppression and the limitations of identity, race, class, sexuality and belonging.. In 2015, she was named as one of the 31 Icons of 2015’s LGBT History Month by Equality Forum.
Sponsored by Honors College, Women’s and Gender Studies, LGBT Studies Minor and Center for Student Diversity.
