WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 12:00 P.M. - 2:15 P.M.

We will watch various works through the lens of the anthology, José Esteban Muñoz: The Sense of Being Brown, especially chapters 1: “The Brown Commons,” and 5: “Chico, What Does It Feel Like to Be a Problem? The Transmission of Brownness”

• “Los Vendidos” (1967, 1972), directed by Luis Valdez, 18 mins.

• The Decline of Western Civilization (1981), excerpt of The Bags performing “Gluttony,” directed by Penelope Spheris, 2:34 mins.

• “Spark” (2020), music video featuring Alice Bag, directed by Rudy Bleu Garcia, 2:38.

• TBA

Latinx Research Center: 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Brown Bag Screening: You are welcome to bring your lunch and enjoy it during the program. Drop in and dip out at any point.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 5:00 P.M. - 7:15 P.M.

We will watch films through the lens of PJ DiPietro’s book, Sideways Selves: Travesti and Jotería Struggles Across the Américas, especially chapters 1: “Sideways Selves, Realidades Atravesadas,” and 2: “The Coloniality of Transgender

• El Sueño Travesti (2016), directed by Flavio Florencio, 23 mins.

• Chavela (2017), directed by Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi, 93 mins.

Latinx Research Center: 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Brown Bag Screening: You are welcome to bring your lunch and enjoy it during the program. Drop in and dip out at any point.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 12:00 P.M. - 2:15 P.M.

To be announced.

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Latinx Research Center: 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Brown Bag Screening: You are welcome to bring your lunch and enjoy it during the program. Drop in and dip out at any point.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 5:00 P.M. - 7:15 P.M.

We watched films through the lens of the anthology, A Handbook of Latinx Art, edited by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado and Deborah Cullen-Morales

• “The ASCO Interviews” (2014), directed by Alvaro Parra, 25 mins.

• “Amalia Mesa-Bains: In Her Own Worlds” (2023), directed by Raymond Telles, 11 mins.

• Visions of Aztlan (2010) directed by Jésus Salvador Treviño, 58 mins.

• “The Couple in the Cage: Guatinaui Odyssey” (1993), directed by Coco Fusco and Paula Heredia, with performances by Guillermo Gomez Peña, 30 mins.

Latinx Research Center: 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Moonrise Screening: Join us for movie night at the LRC. Bring your own beverages and movie candies, we will bring the popcorn and coffee.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 12 P.M. - 2:15 P.M.

We watched short works inspired by Clarissa Pinkola-Estés book Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

• Lost L.A. (s2, e1), “Borderlands,” created by Nathan Masters, 27 mins.

• Reservation Dogs (s3, e3), “Deer Lady,” created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, 30 mins.

• Wednesday (s1, e1), “Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woe,” directed by Tim Burton, 57 mins.

Cine Nepantla at the Latinx Research Center

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 5:00 P.M. - 7:15 P.M.

We watched an episode of a t.v. show and an independent feature film through the lens of Gloria Anzaldúa’s book, Light in the Dark / Luz en lo oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality

• Vida (s2, e5), “Episode 11,” created by Tanya Saracho, directed by Gandja Monteiro, 30 mins.

• Quinceañera (2006), directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, 90 mins.

Cine Nepantla at the Latinx Research Center

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 12:00 P.M. - 2:15 P.M.

We watched works mapping women of color’s meta-critiques of domination and oppositional movidas

• “La Tombola” (2001), created by Ximena Cuevas, 8 mins.

• “Chicana” (1979), directed by Sylvia Morales, 21 mins. 

• Salt of the Earth (1954), directed by Herbert J. Biberman, 92 mins. 

• “Anita Torrez: Auto-historia/cuento of making Salt of the Earth (1954),” 6 mins.

• Red Hollywood (1996) [excerpts], directed by Thom Andersen and Noël Burch, 4:34 mins.

Cine Nepantla at the Latinx Research Center

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 12:00 P.M. - 2:15 P.M.

We will watch films through the lens of Chela Sandoval’s book, Methodology of the Oppressed, and Maria Lugones’s book, Pilgrimages/peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions

• TBA

• !Viva 16! (1994), directed by [Tina] Valentin Aguirre and Augie Robles, 27 mins.

• La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead (1988), directed by Lourdes Portillo, 50 mins.

• Looking (s2, e5), “Looking for Truth,” written by Tanya Saracho, directed by Andrew Haigh, created by Michael Lannan. 28 mins.

Latinx Research Center: 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Brown Bag Screening: You are welcome to bring your lunch and enjoy it during the program. Pop-in and out at any point.

To help us more accurately order enough snacks, we ask that you rsvp, but don’t let that stop you from attending or spontaneously bringing friends with you.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 5:00 P.M. - 7:15 P.M.

Gregorio Davila (director of Unidad and “Nancy From Eastside Clover”) and Louis Jacinto (cast/appearances in Unidad and “Chinatown Punk Wars”) will be in attendance.

• “Nancy From Eastside Clover,” (2014), directed by Gregorio Davila, 7 mins.

• Artbound, “The Chinatown Punk Wars,” (2023), directed by Steven Kochones, with appearances by Louis Jacinto, 57 mins.

• Unidad: Gay & Lesbian Latinos Unidos (2022), directed by Gregorio Davila, with appearances by Louis Jacinto, 57 mins.

Venue: Latinx Research Center, 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Moonrise Screening: Join us for movie night at the LRC. Bring your own beverages and movie candies, we will bring the popcorn and coffee.

We will watch films through the lens of Maria Lugones’s book, Pilgrimages/peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions, especially the chapters 4: “World”-Traveling, and Loving Perception",” and 10: “Tactical Strategies of the Streetwalker / Estrategiasta´Cticasde Lacallejera”