MCC Event | Mirror Memoirs: Trauma, Healing and Surviving as Tools for Social Justice (Screening)

UCSB Multicultural Center Activist Scholar in Residence Series

MIRROR MEMOIRS: Trauma, Healing, and Surviving as Tools for Social Justice

Amita Swadhin & Jaden Fields are nationally-recognized survivor-activists in the movement to end child sexual abuse and rape culture. Together, they co-lead Mirror Memoirs, a national organization uplifting the narratives, leadership and healing of Black, Indigenous and of color LGBTQ+ child sexual abuse survivors. The Mirror Memoirs network counts 650 QTIBIPOC survivors and thousands of accomplices as members across the US.
In November 2021, Mirror Memoirs filmed a new theater project, "Transmutation: A Ceremony," featuring four Black transgender, non-binary and/or intersex assigned-male at birth women and femmes who survived child sexual abuse, navigate the ongoing violence of the world as Black trans femmes, and share their vision of healing and the world we need and deserve.

Visit linktr.ee/mirror.memoirs for more information, and follow their Instagram @mirror.memoirs

Program on Thursday 2/23:

11am-12:15pm - Embarcadero Hall
Keynote: "Mirror Memoirs: Leave No Survivor Behind"
In this public lecture, Amita and Jaden explore intersectional and abolitionist approaches to the question, "How do we co-create a world without child sexual abuse?"

5:30-7:00pm - MCC Theater
Screening: "Transmutation: A Ceremony"
This theater project breaks secrecy and isolation, and uses storytelling and survivor leadership to illuminate the needs and wisdom of survivors and help viewers imagine a different world.

7:00-9:00pm - MCC Lounge
Dinner, Q&A, and Healing Circles
From 7:00-7:30, food will be served in the MCC Lounge following the screening, followed by a 30min Q&A unpacking the theater project. From 8-9PM, the night will end with Amita and Jaden's facilitated healing circles, or spaces to process the theater project and its insights on the world that we live in and what we need to do collectively to end rape culture. There will be one circle for survivors of sexual violence, and one circle for allies and accomplices.