In Honor of Black History Month
Women’s and Gender Studies Presents
Dr. Kimberly Brown
Associate professor and chair of the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of Writing the Revolutionary Diva: Black Women’s Subjectivity and the Decolonized Text
“Let Me Loosen Up My Bra Strap”: Black Female Sexual Agency in Contemporary Film and Literature
Tuesday February 18
7pm
Lee Hall 411
Sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies, History and American Studies, and English, Linguistics, and Communication
For more information contact
Dr. Allyson M. Poska, program chair, Women’s and Gender Studies aposka@umw.edu
In honor of Black History Month, the Departments of History and American Studies and the Program in Women’s and Gender Studies present Dr. Donna Murch (Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University), who will offer a talk entitled “A Time Before Crack: The Destruction of the Southern California Black Panther Party and the Transformation of Black Youth Culture in Late 20th Century Los Angeles.”
Thursday, February 21: Black History Month Lecture, The Slaves’ Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of 1812 by Gene Allan Smith