Join us for a talk and improvised collective ritual that sits with transition as a guiding paradigm for navigating our current conjuncture.

Attendees will be invited to participate in building a collective altar. Treva Ellison will offer some lessons and practices learned from being in transition in the coastal plains of Muscogee, Oconee, Hitchiti ancestral lands (what is commonly known as Southern Georgia), during the pandemic portal.

This interactive event blends Black trans poetics, Afro-indigenous praxis, and Black grandma aesthetics, with the goal of using what we've got and making it beautiful. Treva will share some lessons and offer questions back to the audience to weave a collective ritual of transmutation.

This event is co-sponsored by Critical Race & Political Economy, Gender Studies, Division of Student Life & Purington Fund, MHC Inclusive Initiative Fund, 5C Queer. Trans. Sexuality Studies Certificate, 5 College Lecture Fund, Amherst College SWAGS, UMass WGSS, Smith College Program for the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.