Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six

Abstract

With the livelihood and culture of Gulf Coast residents once again at risk from BP’s drilling disaster, New Orleans writer Jordan Flaherty delivers his new book Floodlines as a timely account of catastrophe, community and resistance. Flaherty tells the stories of public housing residents, gay rappers, Mardi Gras Indians, women prisoners and grassroots activists in the struggle for justice in a post-Katrina landscape. (On tour with Haymarket Books) About the Lecturers: Jordon Flaherty, a writer and community organizer based in New Orleans and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Oakland-based queer Sri Lankan writer, performer and teacher and part-time professor at UC Berkele