“Subverting Colonial Machinations” Native Voices & Monuments Dialogue (SF)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Join us for Subverting Colonial Machinations, a reading and conversation organized by Jonathan Cordero (Ramaytush Ohlone) and Tricia Rainwater (Choctaw), in dialogue with Native leaders and cultural workers Corrina Gould, Sabrina Garibay, Deja Gould, and Melanie C. Lacy Kusters. This gathering is presented as part of Collaborating With the Muses: Part Two, a powerful new installation by Mildred Howard at 500 Capp Street.

Held in the presence of Howard’s reimagined Junípero Serra monument, draped in red textile as both shroud and signal, the evening invites reflection on the legacy of colonial violence and the symbolic dismantling of empire through literature, history, and art. Together, participants will explore how public monuments, collective memory, and Indigenous resurgence intersect—using creative practice to confront the ongoing violence of settler colonialism.

This is a space for truth-telling, reckoning, and imagining life beyond the remnants of conquest.

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