Style as Rebellion
Carlos Kareem Windham
Strategy & Solidarity Collective, Portland, Oregon
Janicia Francis
New York City
Session Description
Throughout American history, Blackness, queerness, and Native understanding of fashion and gender have served as declarations of pride, and declarations of war. Join us as we explore the liminal spaces in fashion, and help us bring our 2025 Global Summit to its conculsion in style.
Employing the sartorial traditions as a revolutionary statement - from dandy's to drag.Throughout American history, Blackness, queerness, and Native understanding of fashion and gender have served as declarations of pride, and declarations of war. Join us as we explore the liminal spaces in fashion, and help us bring our 2025 Global Summit to its conculsion in style.
Presenter Bio
Janicia Francis (she/they/NOT a lady) is a cultural critic, storyteller and podcast producer from the Bronx.
In 2014 they launched the groundbreaking womanist race nerd podcast Tea with Queen and J. with audio content, live events, and trainings that explore race, class, gender and sexuality through a non-academic queer Black femme lens.
They are currently working on the hip hop inspired genetics podcast, In Those Genes and have produced shows in collaboration with Kirk Franklin, Sony Music Entertainment, OtherTONE, Bose, and Spotify. Janicia’s mission is to create work that facilitates in the dismantling of systems of domination and oppression.
Multi-hyphenate, Carlos Kareem Windham, is an artist/organizer who has spent the better part of the last two decades performing for audiences and speaking with students, teachers and organizers on stages and in classrooms across the globe.
Carlos’ works are vulnerable, defiant expressions of the relationships between race, class and gender in the U.S. and abroad. Whether through the medium of storytelling, lyrics, workshop, or stand-up, Carlos takes every opportunity to speak truth to power.
Their path began as a student activist leading a movement that created the Department of Ethnic Studies at University of Colorado, Boulder, continued through touring internationally as a performing artist, evolved into designing arts education programming for youth, managing civic engagement programs and supporting community housing initiatives and private consulting.
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