On February 28, author, activist, and professor Christina Burneo Salazar gave a lecture titled “Against National-Sedentarism: Hospitality, Translation, and Justice.” Sponsored by the Earl and Edna Stice Lectureship in the Social Sciences, Dr. Cristina Burneo Salazar's lecture examined grassroot transnational movements supporting those whose mobility is impeded by Nation-State policies. By focusing on grassroots organizations that practice translation and hospitality as a form of social justice, Dr. Burneo Salazar explored practices of mutual aid that compel us to collectively reorganize life, dislodging it from logics of sedentarization—in the form of borders, linguistic normalization, or gender binarism—that currently threaten it. She argued that struggles against immobility animate everyday modes of protest taking place in local spaces across continents, in mixed languages, via non-binary sexual identities, and through grassroots practices—all exceeding the notion of “citizenship” and sparking plural belongings, transnational affection arrangements, and fluid identities. Learn more about Dr. Burneo Salazar's work in an article recently published in The Daily.