Join the Emily Taylor Center for Women & Gender Equity and the Solidarity Library for The Feminist Files, a monthly reading group exploring feminist texts and featuring FREE book giveaways!

Please note that we encourage people to engage with the texts to at least some degree prior to the meeting to make for an informed discussion, however, attendees are not required to do the recommended reading and/or viewing to attend and participate in our conversation. 

November 9th 

BLACK WOMEN SHAPING FEMINIST THOUGHT

• “Claudia Jones and Ending the Neglect of Black Women” in AAIHS Black Perspectives by Denise Lynn (web)
• “Combahee River Collective Statement” in How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (PDF)
• “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” in Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde (PDF)
• “On Feminism," speech by Elaine Brown (video / transcript / suggested excerpts: 0:00 - 7:35, 12:29 - 19:00, 27:33 - 30:26 & 46:28 - 48:43)
• “The urgency of intersectionality,” TED Talk by Kimberlé Crenshaw (video / transcript)
• “Getting the History of Intersectionality Straight?” in Intersectionality by Patricia Hill Collins and Sirma Bilge (PDF)
• “Why White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy?,” excerpt from bell hooks: Cultural Criticism and Transformation (video / transcript)
• “‘This ain’t no pussy shit,’” bell hooks in conversation with Beverly Guy-Sheftall (video / suggested excerpt: 11:25 - 12:45)

BOOK GIVEAWAYS!

All attendees will be entered into a book giveaway for a chance to win a FREE copy of one of the following books courtesy of Emily Taylor Center for Women & Gender Equity:

• How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story by Elaine Brown
• Intersectionality by Patricia Hill Collins and Sirma Bilge

ACCESSING THE READINGS

Please email us at emilytaylorcenter@ku.edu if you would like to pick up hard copies of the discussion session readings.

VIRTUAL OPTION

Join Zoom Meeting
https://kansas.zoom.us/j/97274193271

Meeting ID: 972 7419 3271
Passcode: 981279

ACCOMMODATIONS

The Emily Taylor Center welcomes and encourages people with disabilities to participate in our events. Please email your accommodation requests to emilytaylorcenter@ku.edu.