Events

2024.04.15

Walkout for Palestine Zine-making Event

Collective Writing & Chalking Inspired by the Cao Collective’s Collective Poetry Workshops, we invited everyone who walked out and join the gathering to pick up a pen and a paper to write about what “resistance” at UC Irvine means to them. The process was simple: each person has 2 minutes to write whatever comes to…

2024.03.29

First Reading Group

Note: This event is only for members of the UCIRNF Collective Zine-making Group Pre-reading Notes Intention & Grounding In preparation for our second zine on institutional memories of UCI student movements, particularly the anti-apartheid divestment campaign in the 90s, we raise a series of questions. Logistics Please browse the pdfs below and read the following…

2024.03.05

Don’t Look Away from Palestinian Wounds: Toward A Trauma-Informed Social Science

See full event note here See resource list for decolonizing trauma and healing here Message from PoliSci Grads: Hi, what does unwellness and/or numbness feel like? Months of ongoing genocides that your labor and money directly contribute to, “this is what our ruling class has decided will be normal” (Aaron Bushnell). This is an ongoing psychological warfare and…

2024.02.29

PLW Zine Workshop

Preparation Presentation Making Zines! RSVP Here This is a 2-hour zine workshop- Abolish the Imperial University Join us for a political education session on UCI’s history of counterinsurgency, followed by a collective session of brainstorming, art-making, and knowledge production against the university. This workshop introduces zines as both an art and an organizing format. We…