TFW’s Tanisha C. Ford and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan at Critical Feminist Thought and the African Diaspora

 Join TFW Associate Editor Mecca Jamilah Sullivan and Contributing Editor Tanisha C. Ford at the Critical Feminist Thought and the African Diaspora Symposium at UMass Amherst, Friday, February 28th.

With this event, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at UMass Amherst commemorates its 40th anniversary. It will bring together a group of scholars working at the intersections of black and feminist diasporic studies. Our keynote address “The Place of Black Feminism” will be delivered by Dr. Dorothy Roberts, from the University of Pennsylvania. Featured speakers include Paula Giddings, Laura Briggs, Banu Subramanian, John Bracey, Salamishah Tillet, Daphne LaMoethe, Rhon Manigault-Bryant, Brittney Cooper, Emily Lordi, Whitney Battle-Baptiste, and others.

February 28 2014 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Amherst Room (10th Floor), Campus Center, UMass Amherst.

Symposium program and additional details: http://blackfeminismsymposium.blogspot.com/