April Events

• Remembering Adrienne Rich: Readings and Recollections
  Thursday, April 19, 2:30pm in the Rare Book Room, Perkins Library
• Black Feminist Filmmaking: The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye
  Thursday, April 19, 6-8pm, FHI Garage, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse
• 'Drastic Dykes:' Lesbian Feminists in the Queen City: Scholars' Tea with LaShonda Mims
  Thursday, April 26, 3:30pm in the Rare Book Room, Perkins Library

This spring, the Bingham Center has partnered with the Program in Women's Studies to promote a series of readings, lectures, and film screenings that all speak to the continuing relevance of the feminist 70s. Download a poster of spring events [PDF].

Acting Across Borders: Celebrating the Meredith Tax Papers

On April 13-14, 2012, the Bingham Center will host its 5th symposium. A writer and political activist since the late 1960s, Meredith Tax has founded or co-founded a series of feminist and social justice organizations starting with Bread and Roses, an early socialist-feminist group in Boston. Her 1970 essay, "Woman and Her Mind: The Story of Everyday Life," is considered a foundational text of the U.S. women’s liberation movement. Acting Across Borders will focus on the main questions Tax explored in this essay and throughout her work as a feminist: race, class, and internationalism.

The conference will start on Friday afternoon, April 13, 2012, with the two keynote addresses in Richard White Hall on East Campus, one by Meredith Tax and the other by radical African feminist, sociologist, writer, educator, and publisher Patricia McFadden. On Saturday, April 14, in the Gothic Reading Room in Perkins Library, there will be three plenary sessions in which speakers will be asked to frame their ideas as a personal narrative in order to give audience members a sense of their political journeys.

Read More on the Symposium Website

Explore Past Programs Online

Videos, photos, audio, exhibits, and more information about past programs are available online.

• Book + Art: Artists' Books at the Bingham Center (2010)

• What Does It Mean To Be An Educated Woman (2009)

• 20th Anniversary Celebration (2008)

• Neither Model Nor Muse (2007)

• Generational Feminisms (2005)

• Abortion: Research, Ethics, and Activism (2003)

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