Community As Rebellion

In partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures, Marguerite Casey Foundation is proud to host a conversation with author Lorgia García-Peña, political strategist Charlene Carruthers, and our President and CEO Dr. Carmen Rojas. The three panelists discuss organizing efforts, mobilizing with institutions and oppressive structures, and the role of women of color in movement building, through the lens of Lorgia’s new book Community as Rebellion.

Weaving personal narrative with political analysis, Community as Rebellion offers a meditation on creating liberatory spaces for students and faculty of color within academia. Much like other women scholars of color, Lorgia García-Peña has struggled against the colonizing, racializing, classist, and unequal structures that perpetuate systemic violence within universities. Through personal experiences and analytical reflections, the author invites readers—in particular Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian women—to engage in liberatory practices of boycott, abolition, and community-building to combat the academic world’s tokenizing and exploitative structures.

Learn more on our website: caseygrants.org