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No Mas Bebes Discussion and Q&A with Filmmaker Renee Tajima-Pena

They came to have their babies. They went home sterilized. No Mas Bebes is a film about the immigrant mothers who sued county doctors, the state, and the U.S. government after they were pushed into sterilizations while giving birth at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center during the 1960s and 70s. Led by an intrepid, 26-year-old Chicana lawyer and armed with hospital records secretly gathered by a whistle-blowing young doctor, the mothers faced public exposure and stood up to powerful institutions in the name of justice.

Black History Month Event: Michael Massenburg

Michael Massenburg was born in San Diego and raised in Los Angeles, California. Massenburg pursued his studies at California State University, Long Beach and Otis School of Art and Design. Massenburg has exhibited in galleries and museums, completed private commissions, and worked on public art projects throughout the country and abroad. His list of public artwork clients includes Verizon, MTA Metro, ESPN, American Jazz Museum, and the Fabulous Forum. He is also the recipient of various grants, including from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the California Arts Council.

Emory Douglas: Revolution in His Lifetime

Emory Douglas was born May 24th, 1943 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has been a resident of the San Francisco California Bay Area since 1951. Douglas attended City College of San Francisco, where he majored in commercial art. He was politically involved as Revolutionary Artist and then Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party, from February 1967 until the Early 1980s. Douglas’s art and design concepts were always seen on the front and back pages of the Black Panther Newspaper, reflecting the politics of the Black Panther Party and the concerns of the community.

Visiting Writers Series: Dexter L. Booth

Dexter L. Booth will read and discuss his work. He is the author of the poetry collections Abracadabra, Sunshine, and Scratching the Ghost, which won the 2012 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and the chapbook Rhapsody. His poems have been included in the anthologies The Best American Poetry 2015, The Burden of Light: Poems on Illness and Loss, The Golden Shovel Anthology honoring Gwendolyn Brooks, and Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry. Booth holds a Ph.D.

Visiting Writers Series: Eduardo C. Corral

Eduardo C. Corral will read and discuss his work. His second collection of poetry, Guillotine, was awarded the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for gay poetry and was longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. His debut collection, Slow Lightening, won the Yale Younger Series Poets Award, making him the first Latinx recipient of this prize.

Visiting Writers Series: Marie-Helene Bertino

Marie-Helene Bertino will read and discuss her work. She is the author of the novels Parakeet—a New York Times Editors’ Choice—and 2 A.M. at the Cat’s Pajamas, one of NPR’s Best Books of 2014, and the story collection Safe as Houses, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award. Her fourth book, the novel Beautyland, is forthcoming from FSG. Her work has been translated into eight languages and has received The Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellowship in Cork, Ireland, The O.

Visiting Writers Series: Dantiel W. Moniz

Dantiel W. Moniz will read and discuss her work. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, an Elizabeth George Foundation grant, the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction, and has been named a "Writer to Watch" by Publishers Weekly and Apple Books. Her debut collection, Milk Blood Heat, was an Indie Next Pick, an inaugural Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club pick, and has been hailed as "must-read" by TIME, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Elle, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among others.

Liberal Arts and Sciences Lecture: Gabrielle Civil

Gabrielle Civil will share musings on Black time and Black dreams, and read from her recent work in a visit to LAS faculty Jen Hofer's Black Poetry Matters course. 

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Civil Rights Then and Now Lecture Series: Dr. Heather Joseph-Witham

Host and LAS Faculty member, Marsha Hopkins, invites the Otis community to join Dr. Heather Joseph-Witham in the Civil Rights Lecture series, presenting on "Urban Legends, Conspiracy Theories, and Anti-Semitism," on November 4th at 9:00 a.m. 

Urban legends about Jews have formed the basis for anti-Semitic beliefs, activities, artwork and even legislation over the centuries.  These narratives and the perspectives they reveal will be explored. 

Headlines

  • O-Launch Weekend
    O-Launch Weekend Celebrates the Next Generation of Artists and Designers
    March 22
  • Alison Saar
    Otis College Alum Alison Saar Selected to Create a Sculpture for Paris Olympics
    March 20
  • Otis Staff talking
    A Week of Creativity and Community at Otis College
    March 15

Civil Rights Then and Now Lecture Series: Michael D. McCarty of the Black Panthers

Hosted by LAS Faculty member Marsha Hopkins, the Civil Rights Then and Now Lecture Series welcomes Micheal D. McCarty, who will discuss his childhood growing up in Chicago and his early role in mobilizing fellow students to create the Black Student Union at St. Ignatius College Prep, and later his experiences as a member of the Black Panther party.