Women and Gender
Women Speak
Loyal Jones Appalachian Center 205 N Main St, Berea, KY, United StatesJoin us for the Women of Appalachia Project's 14th Annual Women's Speak, a presentation of story, poetry and song showcasing women artists from throughout the Appalachian region. Women participating in the project are: Weatherford Award winners, state and municipal Poet Laureates, Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net awardees and nominees, a PRINDI Award winner, […]
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 bell hooks Institute 11:45 AM-1 PM: Lunch catered by Sodexo at the Carter G. Woodson Center in the Alumni Building 1-3:30 PM: bell hooks day […]
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 […]
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 mixed-media collages rooted in memory and personal narrative and inspired by bell hooks' essay, "Piecing it All Together." The workshop is co-sponsored by the bell […]
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 […]