Dr. SA Smythe's Analysis

At this event Dr. SA Smythe, was the speaker. Smythe goes by the pronouns “they” and “them.” They work here at UCI, in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Smythe received their PhD in the History of Consciousness from UC Santa Cruz with emphasis in Feminist Studies and Literature. They are also the president and founder of the Queer Studies Caucus on the American Association for Italian Studies. Furthermore, they are a performing poet translator and activist who organizes in black trans queer abolitionist poetry collectives. They are also a writer and editor. Smythe is the publishing editor of the Them Trans Literary Journal and the author of the book Crisis and the Canon Shifting Representation Regimes in the Black Mediterranean.
Smythe started out their event by talking about their book which was in connection with the rest of the event on blackness belonging and discourses of citizenship. They talked about “crisis of migration” and how it is actually an identity crisis of European national and supernatural identity. Smythe mentions Law 91, people whose parents are citizens can be citizens. In Italy, this meant that even if you were born in Italy you
They were not even custody of children after spartaration. Frankly, this is astonishing to me. It seems like the world just flipped because today men have a hard time getting custody of their children. Courts feel as though children should be with their mothers because women will take care of them and they gave birth to them. They feel like men are just the providers and they work too hard to be able to take care of their children. In reality, men actually end up having to work even more because now they have to pay child support even if they still see and take care of their kid. To me, both concepts are