Cal Poly Humboldt will celebrate the 27th Annual Campus & Community Dialogue on Race (CDOR), an annual event that brings together students, faculty, staff, and community members to explore issues of racial justice and systemic inequity

Monday, Oct. 20, to Friday, Oct. 24, 2025.
This year’s theme is “dis/connecting to reconnect – everyday rest, refusal, resistances.”

In “In the Horizon of Humanity: Trans/Queer/Crip Ecopoetics at the Tipping Point,” micha cárdenas, PhD, MFA, will deliver a virtual keynote streamed live from the College Creek Great Hall. An artist, author, and Professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz, cárdenas is known for blending art, theory, and activism to imagine trans and climate-just futures. Her acclaimed works include Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media and the novel Atoms Never Touch, which explores trans Latina love across multiple quantum realities. Currently directing the Critical Realities Studio, she continues to create and write about the intersections of technology, ecology, and liberation.