“What can feminism speak to?" A feminist dialog between Katha Pollitt and Janell Hobson

Some read Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016 as a sign that feminism is a weaker than ever. That would be a mistake. To the contrary, feminism has turned out to be an extremely powerful political force, from moving millions of people around the world to participate in Women’s Marches last January to pushing the Democratic Party to include feminist issues in its platform. The women who started Black Lives Matter speak to police occupation from an intersectional feminist perspective and many of the strongest sources of opposition to Trumpism are explicitly feminist.
Thanks to the generous support of the President’s Office at Middlebury College, along with the Program in Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies and the Women’s Resource Center at Chellis House, we invite you to a dialog between two leading feminists, Katha Pollitt and Janell Hobson.
Katha Pollitt is a leading feminist voice in the U.S.  She writes the award-winning column "Subject to Debate" for The Nation magazine. Her latest book is Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights; she is also the author of two books of poetry and several collections of essays.  Her book Learning to Drive (2007) is now a motion picture.
Janell Hobson is an associate professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the author of Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture (Routledge, 2005, new edition forthcoming) and Body as Evidence: Mediating Race, Globalizing Gender (SUNY Press, 2012). She also writes and blogs for Ms. Magazine and authored several cover stories for the magazine, including "Beyonce's Fierce Feminism" (Spring 2013). 

This event will take place at Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center, Middlebury College and is free and open to the public.

For more information contact Karin Hanta (802-443-5937, khanta@middlebury.edu)

Oct 3, 2024, 6:30 to 8:30 PM

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