Angela Davis + Gina Dent in conversation about “Barring Freedom”

A special conversation between Angela Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz, and Gina Dent, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Legal Studies, UC Santa Cruz.
Moderated by Rachel Nelson, Director of UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences.
Filmed onsite at San José Museum of Art, November 18, 2020.
To learn more about "Barring Freedom," go to BarringFreedom.org.
Angela Y. Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, UCSC, is a renowned activist and scholar. For decades, Professor Davis has been at the forefront in our nation’s quest for economic, racial, and gender equality and social justice. She is the author of nine books, including her most recent book of essays called "The Meaning of Freedom."
Gina Dent, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Legal Studies, UCSC is a committed activist, scholar, and educator. "Abolition. Feminism. Now." (Forthcoming, Haymarket Press) edited by Dent in collaboration with Angela Davis, Beth Richie, and Erica Meiners, grows out of her work as an advocate for human rights and prison abolition. She is the editor of "Black Popular Culture," and author of numerous articles on race, feminism, popular culture, and visual art.
Rachel Nelson, PhD, is director of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz and teaches in the History of Art and Visual Culture department. Nelson curates projects and writes extensively on contemporary art and geopolitics. She is currently working on a monograph, Seeing in Whiteout, focusing on the strategies contemporary artists use to reveal and disturb the racialized histories and presents of prisons and policing in the United States. Recent publications include "In Perpetual Conflict" in Under the Skin: Feminist Art and Art Histories from the Middle East and North Africa Today, Oxford University Press, 2020, as well as exhibition catalog essays, journal articles, and reviews, including in "Brooklyn Rail," "NKA," "Third Text," "Savvy," and "African Arts."

[@lenmaynard8043]

AMAZING - everyone try to get over to SJMA to see Barring Freedom before it closes. The museum has reopened with limited hours.

[@lx9037]

This couple is lovely. Given their outreach and education on various subjects.

[@Thisisdefnot]

IM SCREAMMINNNG I don’t even remember putting a reminder on this made my day 😭😭

[@swicheroo1]

Ah, I met Gina Dent many years ago. She had just started her tenure track at Princeton. I was being recruited for grad school there...and Columbia...where Gina had just graduated. She had a beautiful Persian rug in jewel tones in her office.

[@ernestkikutachavez7058]

Was lucky enough to see this beautiful exhibition before the museum closed. Now that it's re-opened, I'm planning to visit again!

[@fernandosoto4511]

Hello. I really want to quote Ms . Angela Monet. Those who were dancing, were thought to be insane, by those who could not hear the music. This is just a work being address by the voices, who never end. In the moment of evolution. My humble congratulations. Freedom fighter.

[@kimberlychappell5555]

Angela Davis speaking on capitalism is the birth of the new world.

[@carolynforge8586]

They look alike. Very beautiful women.

[@leonessbutterfly8813]

Very much so, I was thinking the same. Beautiful minds.

[@MrNicoleCherie]

Ya'll are all so wonderful :)

[@DrAlexanderHamilton]

beautiful couple

[@ohvee7318]

A violent world....life!!!