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This undergraduate seminar examines the forms in which Chicana and Latina feminist practices of the art of solidarity are embodied, including theoretical texts, poetry, music, & other creative works. We consider how feminist theory has transformed and been transformed by intellectual, poetic, and aesthetic traditions as it moves throughout the U.S. borderlands and across Abya Yala (known as North, Central, and South America). Each seminar meeting consists of a brief lecture, discussion break-out groups, a mid-way break, and a viewing/listening to relevant film, media or audio texts, guest speaker, or assignment workshop. This quarter seminar is linked to the Sound Collaboratory Symposium and Yale University Professor Daphne Brooks’s Distinguished Katz Lecture. Brooks is author of Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound, Harvard University Press.