Women and Gender
bell hooks day
bell hooks center, Draper 106 101 Chestnut St, Berea, KY, United StatesJoin us in celebrating the life & works of bell hooks! 10 AM-12 PM: Altar-making at the bell hooks center in Draper 106; walking tour of bell's home & the […]
DECOLONIZATION IS DEAD.
bell hooks center, Draper 106 101 Chestnut St, Berea, KY, United StatesAfro-Indigenous descendant global scholar, mom and auntie, Dr. Clelia O. Rodriguez was born and raised in the ancestral lands of the Lenka in what is presently known as El Salvador. […]
Gender Talk: In conversation with Sonya Renee Taylor
bell hooks center, Draper 106 101 Chestnut St, Berea, KY, United StatesSonya Renee Taylor is the New York Times best-selling author of The Body is Not an Apology and a thought leader on racial justice, personal and collective liberation, radical self-love, and transformational […]
bhc Student Activist Series
bell hooks center, Draper 106 101 Chestnut St, Berea, KY, United StatesDayjha Carter Hogg is a current senior at Berea College double majoring in Child and Family Studies and Peace and Social Justice. Dayjha is from a small town in Kentucky called Letcher County, raised by a white mother and an African-American father, though primarily by her mother and her side of the family. Her childhood […]
Gender Talk – Rest is Resistance: Our divine right to rest
bell hooks center, Draper 106 101 Chestnut St, Berea, KY, United StatesWhat would it be like to live in a well-rest world? Engage with the Rest is Resistance framework, rooted in Black liberation, womanist theology, spirituality, and a politics of refusal. […]
Collage Workshop with Visiting Artist Stephanie Santana
Stephanie Santana, a New York-based artist whose work explores mythologies, navigational tools and resistance strategies within the Black diasporan experience, will lead a workshop in which participants will develop quilt-inspired […]
Student Activist Talk
bell hooks center, Draper 106 101 Chestnut St, Berea, KY, United StatesThe bell hooks center invites you to join us for our student activist talk! Soreyda Benedit-Begley is an award-winning fashion designer, radio host, community organizer, activist, and Berea College student from Honduras […]
Gender Talk: Against property: Black feminist land relations in bell hooks’ homeplace
bell hooks center, Draper 106 101 Chestnut St, Berea, KY, United StatesWe invite you to join us for our final Gender Talk of this academic year! Danielle Purifoy revisits bell hooks' 1990 essay 'homeplace: a site of resistance,' to consider what framework […]