SPEAKERS
Setsu SHIGEMATSU
Professor and Chair of the Media & Cultural Studies Department, University of California, Riverside
PROFILE
Shigematsu is a scholar and filmmaker utilizing media to envision a more liberatory future.
She directed the films ”Visions of Abolition“ and “Ghosts of Adelanto: the Rise of Abolish ICE.” Her publications engage legacies of colonialism, gender and resistance movements. She authored ”Scream from the Shadows: The Women’s Liberation Movement in Japan,” and is a co-founder of the digital and art-based Indigenous Truthtelling Project. Her current research focuses on Japanese solidarity with Palestine.
