Writing And/As/About Resistance 2-Day Weekend Zoom Intensive, February 15th and 16th, 2025

  Saturday & Sunday, February 15th & 16th, 2025 Class will meet via Zoom on Saturday and Sunday, 2:00pm ET - 4:00pm ET Now Enrolling! Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. A 2022 LARB Publishing Fellow, Eraldo Souza dos Santos is a Brazilian writer based between Paris and São Paulo. He recently joined Cornell University as a Klarman Fellow and will join UC Irvine as an Assistant Professor within the Poetic Justice Cluster in Summer 2025. His first book, to be published in 2025, is an autobiography of his illiterate mother and a meditation on the lived experience of Blackness and enslavement in modern Brazil. At the age of seven, his mother was sold into slavery by her white foster sister. It was 1968—eighty years after the abolition of slavery in Brazil and four years into the anti-communist coup d’état, during the month in which the military overruled the Constitution by decree. By weaving in extensive archival research and inter