October 26, Building an Ample World
This event is currently at capacity. Please email gschair@rutgers.edu to be put on a waitlist.
Join Roxane Gay, the Rutgers Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies, in welcoming writer, artist, cultural worker, and storyteller Amber Abundance to campus.
In this workshop, Abundance will explore creating a practice of research and wandering into Black cultural histories to spark creativity and self-discovery and share how she celebrates the history of art and movements created by Black women in her own creative work.
Spaces are limited. To reserve a seat, please register at bit.ly/AmpleWorld
Speaker Bios
Amber J. Phillips is a storyteller, filmmaker, and creative director. She creates world building narratives using warm visuals and vulnerable performances through her lens of being a fat Black queer femme auntie from the Midwest. Amber is devoted to using radical Black queer imagination to create stories, art, culture, and community.
Amber released her first short film, Abundance about the limitations and radical possibilities of identity. Abundance was most recently a 2021 BlackStar Film Festival selection and won the audience award for Best Short Narrative. Currently, her writings on Black queer life, culture, and gender can be found on Refinery29’s Unbothered, ESSENCE, and as a staple on her Instagram.
Roxane Gay, the Rutgers University Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies, is an author, professor, editor, social commentator, and contributing writer for the New York Times. She is the author of best sellers Hunger, Bad Feminist, Difficult Women, and most recently, Opinions. She has several books forthcoming and is also at work on television and film projects. She also has a newsletter, The Audacity, and once had a podcast, The Roxane Gay Agenda.
This event is currently at capacity. Please email gschair@rutgers.edu to be put on a waitlist.
Join Roxane Gay, the Rutgers Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies, in welcoming writer, artist, cultural worker, and storyteller Amber Abundance to campus.
In this workshop, Abundance will explore creating a practice of research and wandering into Black cultural histories to spark creativity and self-discovery and share how she celebrates the history of art and movements created by Black women in her own creative work.
Spaces are limited. To reserve a seat, please register at bit.ly/AmpleWorld
Speaker Bios
Amber J. Phillips is a storyteller, filmmaker, and creative director. She creates world building narratives using warm visuals and vulnerable performances through her lens of being a fat Black queer femme auntie from the Midwest. Amber is devoted to using radical Black queer imagination to create stories, art, culture, and community.
Amber released her first short film, Abundance about the limitations and radical possibilities of identity. Abundance was most recently a 2021 BlackStar Film Festival selection and won the audience award for Best Short Narrative. Currently, her writings on Black queer life, culture, and gender can be found on Refinery29’s Unbothered, ESSENCE, and as a staple on her Instagram.
Roxane Gay, the Rutgers University Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies, is an author, professor, editor, social commentator, and contributing writer for the New York Times. She is the author of best sellers Hunger, Bad Feminist, Difficult Women, and most recently, Opinions. She has several books forthcoming and is also at work on television and film projects. She also has a newsletter, The Audacity, and once had a podcast, The Roxane Gay Agenda.