WGSS Open House Week: Putting Class Back Into Intersectionality

Date and time
Monday, March 20, 2023 - 3:00pm to 4:15pm
Location
Virtual Webinar
Description

Co-sponsored with the Wolfe Institute for Humanities at Brooklyn College of CUNY.

This webinar explores the proposition that the Combahee River Collective’s radical vision of intersectional politics has been undermined by the de-centering of its anti-capitalist analysis and politics.

Introductory remarks by: Alejandra Marchevsky, Inaugural Chair and Professor, Department of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cal State Los Angeles

Speakers:

Robin D. G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History, University of California—Los Angeles, and Brooklyn College Hess Scholar-in-Residence (2001-02)

Barbara Smith, Independent scholar-activist, co-founder of the Combahee River Collective and Kitchen Table: Woman of Color Press, and Hess Scholar-in-Residence at Brooklyn College (2022-23)

Moderator: Joseph Entin, Professor of English and American Studies, Brooklyn College

Register in advance for this webinar using this link:  https://brooklyn-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvcOuprT0qHdU-mYxRTxk4pTete12UxCPT

Recorded, online, public access webinar with CART live transcriptions.

Barbara Smith looking straight at the camera, smiling and wearing a black top with white dots; Dr. Robin Kelley, red jumper
Contact
The Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Phone
(323) 343-4100