Join Us this Tuesday at SUNY Old Westbury!
Come to Listen, Come to Share.
“A Celebration of Feminist Activism: A Memorial for Rosalyn Baxandall,”
Date: April 5, 2016
Times: 1:00, 2:45, 3:50 pm (three events)
Place: NAB 1100
1:00 PM: Beyond the Birds & the Bees:
Liz Slagus & Noreen Leddy of the SexEd Project in conversation with Laura Flanders, host of the Laura Flanders Show.
2:30-3:40 PM: Remembering Rosalyn Baxandall
A Memorial for Rosalyn Baxandall, former chair, American Studies Department, (1971-2010) co-founder,Women and Gender Studies minor; author of Words on Fire: The Life and Writing of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn; with Linda Gordon,Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women’s Liberation Movement; with Linda Gordon and Susan Reverby, America’s Working Women and with Liz Ewen, Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened, 1945-1987.
3:50-5:20 PM: “Our Bodies, Our Lives: An Intergenerational Dialogue on Feminism and Reproductive Justice.”
A conversation with Loretta Ross, Barb Winslow, & Rosalind Petchesky
Participants:
The SexEd Project: Liz Slagus and Noreen Leddy are multi-media artists, curators and educators who create radical pedagogies that combine art, reproductive health, and participatory tools. Their collaborative project SexEd: Art-Inspired, Community Based U.S. Sex Education was supported by an A Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art.
Laura Flanders: of the The Laura Flanders Show / GRITtv featuring “in depth conversations with forward-thinking people from the worlds of politics, economics, business and the arts.” She is also the author of six books including the New York Times best-seller, BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004) and Blue GRIT: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians (Penguin Press, 2007) and a contributing writer to The Nation and Yes! magazine (“Commonomics”). Flanders is a repeat guest on Real Time with Bill Maher and appears regularly on MSNBC. She’s also served as a substitute host for PBS veteran, Bill Moyers.
Loretta Ross: founder Sister Song, Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, Ross has appeared on CNN, BET, "Lead Story," "Good Morning America," "The Donahue Show," "Democracy Now," and "The Charlie Rose Show. She is a member of the Women's Media Center's Progressive Women's Voices and is featured in Makers: Women Who Make America video collection. Ms. Ross was National Co-Director of the April 25, 2004 March for Women’s Lives in Washington D.C., the largest protest march in U.S. history with more than one million participants.
Barbara Winslow: historian of women’s activism, founder and director emerita of the Shirley Chisholm Project, author, Shirley Chisholm, Catalyst for Change and Sylvia Pankhurst, Sexual Politics and Political Activism.
Rosalind Petchesky: Macarthur Award winning reproductive rights scholar-activist, founder of the International Reproductive Rights Research Action Group (IRRAG) and author of multiple books, including: Global Prescriptions: Gendering Health and Human Rights; Abortion And Woman's Choice: The State, Sexuality, and Reproductive Freedom (Northeastern Series on Feminist Theory) and Sexuality, Health and Human Rights.
Sponsored by the American Studies Department & the Women's Center
Questions? Please contact: Carol Quirke, Laura Chipley, Amanda Frisken,Gilda Zwerman, Andrew Mattson