April 2018

 

April 8- Keynote, Antiblackness in Latinamerica, Black and Latina Womens Summit, University of Illinois

April 8- Workshop, Recognizing Antiblackness in Latinamerica, Black and Latina Womens Summit, University of Illinois

April 17- Talk, Antiblackness in Latinamerica, Occidental College

April 20- Keynote, Decolonizing Research Methods, Columbia University

April 25- Talk, Art and Resistance, University of Wisconsin

April 27- Keynote, Antiblackness in Latinamerica, University of California-Los Angeles

 

March 2018

 

March 2- Talk, Antiblackness in Latinamerica, Indiana University

March 24- Workshop, Blackness in Dominican Republic, National Dominican Student Conference, New York University

March 26- Keynote, Living as AfroLatina, Washington State University

 

February 2018

 

February 3- Keynote Speaker, Healing and Resistance as an Afrolatina, Womyn of Color Conference, University of California- Santa Barbara

February 27- Panel with Alan Pelaez,  Afrolatinidad,  University of California-Berkeley

February 28- Keynote, Latinas Beyond UPenn, University of Pennsylvania

 

December 2017

 

December 4– Panel,  Being Dominican in Different Industries, Bella Quisqueya, 6-8pm, National Dominican Student Conference,  909 Kimmel Center for University Life,  NYU

December 9- Panel, Episode 2: Solidarity: Intellectual Life, Contemplation, and Belonging in the Millenia, Chroma Collective Conference, 8 Ball Community, 21 Howard Street, NYC

 

November 2017

 

November 2 – TEDx Talk, #MaybeHeDoesntHitYou/ #QuizaNoTePegue, TEDx Mexico City-Women, Bridges/Puentes, El Teatro Barrio Santa Fe, Mexico City, Mexico

November 7- Talk, Boston College, Decolonizing Beauty Standards

November 14– Panel, Ni Negro Ni Blanco, 6-7:30pm, CMEP Lounge, NYU

November 18– Keynote Speaker, Teen Summit, Casita Maria, Bronx NY, Register at bit/ly/11-18-17

 

October 2017

 

October 6- Podcast, Ep 6: Dirty Scrapbooking with Zahira Kelly,  Latinos Out Loud with Juan Bago and Rachel La Loca, Listen HERE

October 9, 10 – Talk on Afrolatinas Plight in Latin America/#QuizaNoTePegue,  Foro Mujeres Lideres de Mexico, Sala Mayor de Rectoria, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, Mexico 

October 21 –   Talk, Antiblackness as Latin American Nationalism, Williams College, Massachusetts

October 25 – Panel,  Feminism, Womanism, and the Struggle for Equality within Black Community, 6-8pm, Sleeper Auditorium, Room 129, Boston University College of General Studies, 871 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA 02215

October 28- Art Exhibition, Light (An Ode To Women), 6-11pm, hARTlem, 226 W 145th Street, New York, NY, Tickets at hartlemartfest.eventbrite.com

 

September 2017

 

September 7, 8, 9– Panel on Feminism and Racism and Art Exhibition, Pitchwise Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia

 

August 2017

 

August 19– Q&A, The Sex Myth,  A Devised Play, 8:30pm, HERE Arts Center- 145 Avenue of the Americas, Entrance on Dominick, one block south of Spring St., NYC, Details here and Tickets here

 

July 2017

 

July 7- Panel, Community Economics & Women Entrepeurship, AfroLatino Festival, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Studies, Harlem, NYC, Details TBA at AfroLatinoFestNYC.com

 

July 8- Outdoor Vending of Art Prints, Apparel, Jewelry. AfroLatino Festival, BedStuy Restoration Plaza, 1368 Fulton St, Brooklyn NYC, More TBA

 

 July 9- Art Exhibition and Panel, The Scarlet Event, 4-10pm, 2nd Floor, 478 Tremont Ave, Bronx, NY 10467, Includes All You Cab Eat buffet and open bar, Tickets at MpFrias.com/Shop

 

 

May 2017

 

May 1 – Panel Moderator, Right2Work, NYC (Details TBA)

 

May 28– Panel, Artists in Action Forum: The Revolution, 2:30-5:30pm, Harlem, NYC, Details TBA

 

 

April 2017

 

April 20- Talk, AfroLatina: Living as Embodied Myth, 6pm, Miller Hall, Western Washington University, Washington State

 

 

February 2017

 

February 14- The folks at KGB Bar’s True Story Series asked me to do a reading and Q&A session on decolonizing love and I was happy to oblige. Check out the event link here as you can send questions beforehand, NYC, 7pm.

 

February 15- I will be in Brooklyn, NYC at this art show debuting new work that is a bit different from what I usually do in that I used live models. Excited to share it with you!

 

 

 

November 2016

 

November 15- #QuizaNoTePegue

Last May, my friend Lauren Chief Elk and I started #MaybeHeDoesntHitYou on twitter to document forms of non-physical violence women like us experience and within hours, women all over the world joined in across social media to speak their truths and experiences.

I am so happy to announce that following the initial english-language, widespread success, we are launching it spanish with the help of Cynthia Garcia-Galindo of  Plan C, our #MaybeHeDoesntHitYou embassador in Mexico.

Join us and read more on it here.

//Hace unos meses junto a mi buena amiga Lauren Chief Elk empeze #MaybeHeDoesntHitYou sobre el abuso no-fisico y dentro de horas, mujeres alrededor del mundo se unieron a nosotras y compartieron sus historias.

Hoy me place mucho anunciar que con Cynthia García-Galindo de Plan C, nuestra nueva embajadora de #MaybeHeDoesntHitYou en Mexico, lanzamos #QuizaNoTePegue, la version hispanoparlante, para alcanzar a mujeres en Latinoamerica.

Sumate y lee mas aqui.

 

October 2016

 

Sunday Oct 16– In-Studio Interview, The lovely ladies at the Tea With Queen and J  podcast invited me to their Bondfire Radio recording studio for what turned out to be a hilarious sister circle, with engineer TastyKeish joining in for talk on Diasporic Black girl stuff. Listen to the Ep HERE., Bondfire Radio, NYC

(Left to Right: Queen, Zahira, J aka Janicia) Photo: Tasty Keish

Monday Oct 17. 2016– Due to my podcast’s success, the lovely folks at Bumpers.fm requested a 4 episode extension, with Ep 5 airing on this date at bumpers.fm/zahira.

 

September 2016

 

Monday Sep 19. 2016– Debut of “Shouting From The Margins” weekly 4 episode season podcast hosted by me at bumpers.fm/zahira, at bumpers.fm’s behest to join their fam.

 

May 2016

 

May 1- #MaybeHeDoesntHitYou

Lauren Chief Elk and I started #MaybeHeDoesntHitYou on twitter to document forms of non-physical violence women like us experience and within hours, women all over the world joined in across social media to speak their truths and experiences.

May 18– Speaking Event, Intergenerational Trauma: Recognizing and Healing Colonial wounds in the Latin American Community, NorthWestern University, Illinois, 7pm

May 18– Recipient of ¡Ahora! Award for commitment to organizing and demonstrating the necessity for ethnic studies as a praxis for a better future en la comunidad, from Northwestern University’s Alianza and Latina and Latino Studies Program

 

April 2016

 

April 21– Panel, How We Disappear: Missing in Life, Missing in Death, with Lauren Chief Elk and Shaadi Devereaux. Sarah Lawrence College, Yonkers, NY, 5:30pm

 

February 2016

 

February 9– Speaking Event, Knox College, Illinois- a talk for Black history month on being an Afrolatina.

February 12– Panel, Chillin Island Multimedia Art Show, Babycastles, NYC- on art with Aaron Bondaroff, Andrew Kuo, Z Behl, Sam McKinniss and Venus X.

February 25– Speaking Event, Davidson College, North Carolina- a talk on telenovelas and the ways they parallel reality for Afrolatinas.

 

October 2015

 

October 17- Live Reading of Written Pieces, SheWritesShe- Readings by Femme identified authors, Naked Heart Fest, Toronto

October 17- Panel, The Crucible of Trauma- on traversing trauma through creative expression, Naked Heart Fest, Toronto

October 3- Award Recipient at Awards Brunch, #AfroLatinasWhoRock- recognizing AfroLatinas revolutionizing the world around them, NYC

 

May 2015

 

May 28- Art Exhibition Closing Cerermony, Sweeties at The ICA- celebration concluding my art showing at a month long group art exhibition by Sweeties Art Collective, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

 

April 2015

 

April 18- Panel, Building Communities of Resistance- panel on healing intercommunal rifts and forming stronger communities within the liberation movement, Building A Movement Conference (#BAM2015), The New School, NYC

April 14- Panel, Toxic Twitter-duo panel with Shaadi Devereaux on the perils and liberatory power of twitter for marginalized women of color, Sarah Lawrence College, NY

 

January 2015

 

January 8- Panel, Disrupting the Digital Humanities- on driving, challenging and redirecting humanities discourse over social media, MLA conference, Via Satellite

 

April 2014

 

April 17- Speaking Event, Afrolatina: Living as Embodied Myth- a breakdown of afrolatina erasure, history, present and future, Depauw University, Indiana

April 17- Classroom Lecture, PostColonial Feminism: Deconstructing Damsels in Distress, Feminist Theory Class, Depauw University, Indiana

April 18- Classroom Lecture, Erasure of AfroLatinxs and Underground Libraries surging post-Tucson ethnic study book bans, Depauw University, Indiana