Performance | bone black: a ritual reading for bell hooks

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Wednesday April 13

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6:00 PM  –  8:30 PM

bone black is a ritual performance reading for the late black feminist writer and theorist, bell hooks/Gloria Jean Watkins(1952-2021). The performance will feature 69 Black women, transgender and non-binary performers who will serve as live and virtual ritual readers reciting hooks’ prolific body of work. This event will be conducted by Courtney Desiree Morris, a visual/conceptual artist and an assistant professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

This event is co-sponsored by the Museum of the African Diaspora, the UC Berkeley Gender and Women’s Studies Department, the UC Berkeley African American Studies and African Diaspora Studies Department, the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley, and Bluma. 

This is an in-person event that will take place onsite at MoAD. You are required to show proof of full vaccination or a negative Covid test within 72 hours of entry. Masks are required throughout the museum. 

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