Sorry if we try too hard
To take some power back for ours
The language of oppression
Will lose to education
Until the words can’t hurt us again
The language of oppression
Will lose to education
Until the words can’t hurt us again
So sorry if you take offense
But silence will not make amends
The system’s all wrong
And it won’t be long
Before the kids are singing our song”
But silence will not make amends
The system’s all wrong
And it won’t be long
Before the kids are singing our song”
– The Slants, “From The Heart” (watch the music video)
Simon Tam – author, musician and self-described “troublemaker” – will be an Artist-in-Residence welcomed by the School of Communication October 7-8. He’ll be speaking (and performing songs) about communication as activism, discrimination against Asian Americans during the pandemic, and his landmark Supreme Court case defending the right of his band to appropriate a term long used to discriminate against them. Read more about Simon.
Simon will be here in-person AND we will live stream all of his events. We hope you’ll attend in the way that you are comfortable.
We especially encourage you to check out Slanted: How an Asian American Troublemaker Took on the Supreme Court, at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, October 7. It will be a mix of music and storytelling that should be really special.
Wednesday, October 7
- 9:00-9:50 a.m. – Media Law and Ethics talk: Matal v. Tam and intellectual property law, Stanley Russ 103
- 1:00-2:15 p.m. – Public Affairs talk: Communication as Activism, Stanley Russ 103
- 6:00-7:30 p.m. – Public Performance: Slanted: How an Asian American Troublemaker Took on the Supreme Court, McCastlain Ballroom
Thursday, October 8
- 12:15-1:30 p.m. – Multicultural Public Relations talk: Asian American discrimination in the pandemic, Stanley Russ 103
- 1:40-2:30 p.m. – Meeting with Student Organizations, sponsored by the UCA Chapter of the NAACP, McCastlain Ballroom
Simon’s visit is part of our 2020 Communication Week, which kicks off with our alumni panel on Tuesday during x-period. The alumni panel will be on Zoom at this link.
