bell hooks center, Draper 106
Student Activist Series: Imposter Syndrome
bell hooks center, Draper 106 101 Chestnut St, Berea, KY, United StatesHalle "Hal" Gensler (they/them) is a junior experienced in advocacy, youth programming, and other forms of organizing work. They travel across the country working with organizations such as the Norther […]
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. […]
Gender Talk – Black Nourishment: Food, Justice and Care as a Praxis
bell hooks center, Draper 106 101 Chestnut St, Berea, KY, United StatesJoin national food justice leader, organizer, priestess, writer, facilitator, DJ, and internationalist Black feminist Dara Cooper (also known as DJ Dandara) in a talk on Black nourishment and building a movement towards justice centering care. From our personal lives to our movement, our communities and beyond, it is important-urgent-that we center nourishment and reclaim the […]
WGS Colloquium: The Art of Falling Apart with Lauren Kelly Benson
bell hooks center, Draper 106 101 Chestnut St, Berea, KY, United StatesWe continue to endure wild, heartbreaking, unprecedented times, yet we have so little guidance about relating to these times with wholeness and honesty. What if we allowed ourselves to be ok not being okay? What if we moved through the world expressing the full breadth and width of our emotional experience? What if falling apart is […]
Student Activist Series: How to be a Changemaker
bell hooks center, Draper 106 101 Chestnut St, Berea, KY, United StatesShayla R. Roberts-Long (she/her/hers) is a junior ('25) with activist experience in sustainability and environmental activism. She has worked with many campaigns and projects, including Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and Clean4ChangeKY, a nonprofit that she co-founded. Shayla also volunteers with Kentucky Refugee Ministries, Just Creations, EKY Mutual Aid, and the Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition, to […]
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 […]
Queer Student Mixer
bell hooks center, Draper 106 101 Chestnut St, Berea, KY, United StatesJoin us for this year's Pride Week Queer Student Mixer! Activities include pizza eating, Queer Trivia, a Pride Uno table, as well as friendship bracelet-making and Pride flag pin-making! Residence Life will also have a photo booth available on Hutchins Library steps for photo ops on your way to and from the mixer!
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]