Update: Obeahs, Brujas and Witches (2022)
Update: Obeahs, Brujas and Witches (2022)
Update: Obeahs, Brujas and Witches will now be on November 11th (from 12-2 PM, Susquehanna 4116). We hope to see you there! RSVP here: https://go.umd.edu/Obeahs22
Join us for Obeahs, Brujas and Witches, where we will discuss the intersection of magical practices and spiritualities and feminist thought with faculty coordinator Hess Love, from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM on November 11th, 2022, at Susquehanna Hall 4116.
Hess serves the greater Chesapeake community as a poet, public archivist of the Chesapeake Diaspora, historian of regional Black Atlantic Indigenous spirituality, and an Earth reverence educator.
They are a major proponent for social change to empower the lives of those intentionally overlooked, and underserved, by our current system. Their advocacy centers caregivers, LGBTQ folks, disabled people, children, and plant life. While not an exhaustive list of their advocacy efforts, their work helps us to reimagine, and take hold of, what life could look like if all beings were treated as whole, and worthy.
Hess is one of the foremost voices in the renaissance and reclaiming of Hoodoo, they co founded the Chesapeake Conjure Society: a progressive socially and environmentally conscious organization dedicated to the historical research and preservation of African American Communities, Cemeteries, Cultural, Religious and the Death Practices of the Chesapeake-Tidewater region.
During the event, Hess will reach students and faculty through a visual/audio presentation of Hoodoo in the 21st Century. This lecture will include a non-exhaustive definition of Hoodoo, what Hoodoo looks like in 2022 (and during the COVID pandemic), as well as the place of technology in the Hoodoo tradition. They will go over older lore that informs navigation of many contemporary Hoodoo practitioners, and take on questions from the attendees.
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