Women in Academia Discussion

The Feminist Reading Group met yesterday to discuss Women in Academe, in all its forms and valences. Here are a few of the points we discussed for further interrogation:
• We briefly addressed the Globe and Mail article in terms of the numbers and how mothers make less money than single women and single mothers even less money than mothers who are partnered.
• There is a set stereotype/idea/understand

ing of what makes a successful academic and it usually involves publishing and conferencing. This idea needs to be transformed ideally in such a way that it is more inclusionary of people who don’t fall into the presumed categories of single, male, childless, etc.
• These two things, publishing and conferencing are problematized and difficult if you are a mother.
• Student Parent Associations are a good way to both make connections to other parents on campus as well as can be a place where exchanges occur in regards to babysitting, outings, etc.
• There is all of guilt involved with being both an academic and a mother, no matter what you are doing, studying, reading, writing or spending time with your child, one always feels like they should be doing the other, thus guilt sets in.
• Mothers or even partners, couples, within departments often feel marginalized, that their children or their significant others are not welcome at functions. The discourse around this marginalizing is complex.
• One member evoked a discourse of “outing” in relation to their position as a mother, she felt that it was time that she moved to creating more exposure of her position as mother by letting others meet her children and partners.
• This discourse of outing relates the position of academic mother to other marginalized people within the departments, queer academics for one.
• Most of the academic articles on women in academia emphasize the need for exposure and for alliances to be made between all the marginalized people within any department or university, mothers, queers, racial minorities, etc.
• These articles also emphasize the need for more studies to be done on women in academe in general, both from a pedagogical standpoints as well as economic standpoints.

The FRG thanks everyone for coming out to this, our last meeting of the academic year and we hope that you all have a pleasant summer and join us again in the Fall. See you in September!

Save Guelph's Women's Studies Program

Below is a copy of the letter (it is the same as the first) and a new e-mail list (just with the addition of the provost)


To Whom It May Concern;



I am writing in concern about the future of the Women’s Studies program at the University of Guelph. It has come to the knowledge of the public that the University is considering cutting the Women’s Studies program. The closure of this program would reflect negatively on the University. It would signal a lack of support for safe and inclusive spaces around campus. It signals the University’s lack of respect for feminist theory and the perspective of marginalized voices within academia. It signals the University’s lack of understanding of how integral the Women’s Studies program is to the University as a whole. It is not only Women’s Studies students who benefit from the Women’s Studies program. Students from outside the program sit in on small Women’s Studies classes to engage in a unique dialogue not found any where on campus. Students from within the Women’s Studies program attend other classes and feel empowered to speak out about issues that might otherwise never be raised.

To close the Women’s Studies Program shows that the University of Guelph does not feel this program is important enough to work for. It shows that the University thinks we live in a society of equals – when really, we all know that is not the case. The University of Guelph has one of the oldest Women’s Studies program in the country, it has students that are willing to fight for it, who go on to become professors at Universities, who go on to become administration at our own University, and who go on to be graduate students at many different institutions.

The closure of the Women’s Studies Program puts other Women’s Studies, Gender Studies, Queer Studies at risk. We cannot set the example that these programs are not integral to a learning environment. Instead of closing these important avenues of discussion, we should be fostering and sustaining them. Closing the Women’s Studies Program is foreclosing on the work that needs to be done to work towards a just society.





Sincerely,



(Your Name Here) .


Send to:

Neil MacLusky
nmaclusk@uoguelph.ca

Don Bruce (Dean of Arts)
don.bruce@uoguelph.ca

Sherry Kinsella (Admin Assistant to Dean of Arts)
skinsell@uoguelph.ca

Alastair Summerlee (President)
a.summerlee@exec.uoguelph.

ca

Brenda Whiteside (Associate Vice-President of Student Affairs)
b.whiteside@exec.uoguelph.ca

Christi Garneau-Scott
csaacad@uoguelph.ca


Maureen Mancuso (Provost & VP Academic)
m.mancuso@exec.uoguelph.ca

or m.mancuso@exec.uoguelph.ca, csaacad@uoguelph.ca, b.whiteside@exec.uoguelph.ca, a.summerlee@exec.uoguelph.ca, skinsell@uoguelph.ca, don.bruce@uoguelph.ca, nmaclusk@uoguelph.ca


Please sign the petition that can be found here:
Petition

Women in Academia

The Feminist Reading Group invites you to join us for our last meeting of the term on Wednesday, March 25th, from 1:30-3:00 pm in UC 384. This meeting will provide a forum for discussion around the particular challenges women in academia may face (including not only forms of systemic sexism, but also age-related discrimination). We will also discuss the challenges and rewards of motherhood for women in academic careers.

No formal preparation for this meeting is required, as we will provide select materials for discussion at the meeting itself. If anyone has material that they would like to contribute for discussion (including online sources), please feel free to send it along ahead of time.

All are welcome!

See these urls for possible points of interest for this meeting.

Journal 1

Journal 2

Globe and Mail article

Celebrity Feminism/Feminists Discussion

The FRG met to discuss how affective the intersection of celebrity and feminism is in making feminism acceptable/accessible to all. Below are point form notes of issues that were raised. Please feel free to continue the discussion on these issues here, or on the FB group page:

• Celebrity Feminism seems to be very commercialized and centres around geographical limitations to activism. We buy something "here" to help women "over there".
• There is definitely and interaction of feminism and humanism in the "This is what a feminist looks like" campaign
• There also seems to be an importance placed on aesthetics in that campaign however. Feminists "look" as certain way, or at least they are supposed to. This creates a subsectionality to the movement.
• Thus ultimately this "this is what a feminist looks like" campaign seems to re-inscribe the very problems it is supposed to eradicate.
• In the Avon campaign the bracelet is the locus of power and empowerment
• This campaign is vague in its purpose and seems to inspire women who take such activism at face value without digging into the deeper issues and motivations.
• Seems to misrepresent itself as a UN partner/program.
• It never uses the "feminist" word in the campaign.
  
• Is Angelina Jolie a better feminist than others because she refuses to engage in the commercialized "performance" of the feminist? She actively refuses to engage with that discourse. Seems to use her silence as resistance.
• Allison Janey as possibly a good example of celebrity feminism, because she does not necessarily engage with commercialized or problematized activism. She addresses the issues using media but in a covert way.
  
• Hillary Clinton, is she signaling a movement towards feminism and feminist ideals to the US government?

Please join us again on February 25th from 1:30-3:30 in UC 384 when we will be discussing Motherhood, Feminism and Careers in Academia.

Celebrity Feminisms

The Feminist Reading Group invites you to join us for our first meeting of the term on Wednesday, January 28^th, from 1:30-3:00 pm in UC 384: “Celebrity Feminisms.” This meeting will interrogate the cultural politics of celebrity feminism, and celebrity-endorsed feminist campaigns—from the Feminist Majority’s celebrity “This is What a Feminist Looks Like” campaign, to Reese Witherspoon’s endorsement of the Avon Empowerment Fund and the UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women.

No formal preparation for this meeting is required, as we will provide select material from news and media sources at the meeting itself. If anyone has material that they would like to contribute for discussion (including online sources), please feel free to send it along ahead of time. Hope to see you there!!

Here are a few links to start:

Celebrity Feminists

Reese and Avon Campaign

Avon Campaign

Maher on Feminism

Faux Celebrity with Real Celebrifeminist

Celebrity Feminism and Magazines

Live Nude Girls Unite!

Today the Feminist Reading Group screened the documentary, "Live Nude Girls Unite!" about the unionizing of workers at a San Francisco peep show. The documentary led into questions of how feminists and feminism is positioned in relation to this type of work. Here are a few point form comments and questions that were posed and addressed:

• Documentary suggested that the way to fight patriarchy is by taking their money. Is this intersection of economics and social issues a viable place to situate a fight?
  
• Ultimately, is sex work empowering, or is it only empowering as a means to an end, specifically an educational end? Many of the workers were Women Studies or Philosophy graduates, does being positioned as educated or going towards education change the way this type of work is seen, as opposed to say it just being a job to pay rent or bills, without a larger goal? This is also seemingly a class issue.
  
• There are moral divide operators. The mind is being respected here but the body seemingly isn't.
  
• There are good examples of this mind body divide as seen in characters on TV today. For example Catherine Willows on CSI was an exotic dancer who did it to advance her education. Similarly Lady Heather, the dominatrix character, used her money to receive a psychology degree.
• The documentary also spoke to the intersection of sex work and social work and how those two are not mutually exclusive positions.
• There was a large amount of classification done by the peep show managers along lines of race, hair colour, and body type, yet a lot of the bodies were the same. Little discussion was given in the documentary about body types in specific. Is this comfort level, a level where discussion is not necessary, the logical conclusion to say the type of activisms that Dove commercials promote?
• Was there ever really a threat of the peep show going out of business? How does this reflect in the union/management negotiations.
  
• This documentary promotes the choice of sex work as a feminist choice and not a bad moral judgment a la McKinnon.
  
• This can also tie into Irigaray and her work on the economy of the female body.
  

The next Feminist Reading Group meeting will be sometime in mid January. Details to be announced and posted soon.
Thanks to all that came out for this lively discussion.
THE FRG

FRG Today: Sex Trade Work, "Live Nude Girls Unite!"

The Feminist Reading Group invites all interested participants to join us for our second meeting of the term on Wednesday, November 12^th, from 1:00-3:00 pm in UC 274. We will be screening Vicky Funari and Julia Query’s Live Nude Girls Unite! (2000), a documentary film about a group of San Francisco sex workers and their efforts to unionize in the late 1990s. The 75-minute film screening will be followed by an almost certainly lively discussion on sex workers, working conditions, and rights.

We hope to see you there!

Notes from FRG Meeting on Women in Politics

Our first FRG meeting of the year was a lively and insightful discussion of the various tensions and issues that surround women in both the American and Canadian elections. I list here some of the key points made during our discussion. Please feel free to continue the debate on these issues here, this website was specifically designed as a place to voice further positions. Thanks to all that showed up for the Meeting today. Our next meeting is Wednesday November 12th from 1-3pm and we will be discussing the Politics and Issues surrounding Sex Work and Sex Workers. Hope to see you there.

Women in Politics:

• Though the Palin/Clinton SNL spoof is a relatively well known Popular Culture moment, it was stated that the tensions and divides that are innate in the spoof are being lost on a younger generation that does not/chooses not to engage in socio-political positioning of women.
• It was mentioned that the tension between identifying as a feminist yet still being able to enjoy domestic duties is alive and well.
• Some call Palin being kept from the media a sexist move
• Palin structures her speak around a populous rhetoric, but do voters enjoy it?
• A question was raised, if Palin was not seen as "attractive," would she still have been picked as VP nominee? What does this say about the role of aesthetics and female politics.
• What did Palin's continuous winking in the VP debate do? What sort of message does that give?
• George Lakoff has analyzed the rhetoric around the American election, and how conservatives use rhetoric and buzz words to dominate political discourse.
• There is a real dichotomy surrounding Palin's use of her children during political events; on the one hand she is opening herself up to criticism as a bad mother for having her children up late, etc. , on the other hand it can be seen as a positive strategy to shore up her position as a family oriented.
  
• In the Canadian debate it was noted that Elizabeth May's jewellery could be seen as distracting and detracting from what she was saying and the issues at hand.
  
• May, Clinton, and Palin force one to confront definitions of feminism(s); since abortion seems to be the polarizing issue, it tends to skew the view of feminists and feminism as something squarely within a leftist frame.
• Biden seems to suggest that violence against women is an economic issue, which is frighteningly like the discourse used in relation to women and education in the 19th century. To his credit he tries to use it towards a general good, thus he is often seen as a better feminist than Palin, if there is such a thing.
• It is interesting that gender has to be front and centre in political debate and discourse now. However, it sometimes needs to be coupled with economics or given an economic spin to be legitimized.
• Hunting can be seen as a de-feminizing of Palin, it relates to her lack of cohesion as a disarming movement that detracts from her bad policies.
  
• Palin's speech is often in passive voice
  
• In all cases Palin, May, etc. representation is key
  

Performance Studies Research Group

The Performance Studies Research Group is presenting a talk by Steven Bruhm, the English Department's new Lumsden Professor. Professor Bruhm will be giving a talk entitled "Red Shoes Read: A Queer Dance of Death." The talk will be held on Thursday October 8th at 4pm in UC224a. All are welcome to attend.

Reminder!!

Tomorrow is the first Feminist Reading Group meeting of the academic year, from 1-3pm in UC274. Please come out to discuss the role of women in politics especially in relation to the Canadian and American elections.

Please see the Urls below for links to possible discussion points.

Hope to see you there!

The FRG

Women in Politics: Interesting links to articles/discussion

These are a few interesting links in regards to our women in politics FRG discussion group meeting for October 8th 2008. Please feel free to email Allison other links or comments that you feel will be useful to contextualize or spark discussion during our meeting and I will add them to this list.
Cheers,
Ann

Take our girls to vote (Equal Voice)
Take our girls to vote article in Toronto Star
Women are front and centre in U.S. politics, unlike here
Don't Mess with Elizabeth May
Womens votes Up for Grabs
When we talk about the Glass Ceiling
Palin Sexism Watch
Pakistan president calls Palin "gorgeous"
Women Against Sarah Palin
SNL Palin-Clinton skit
Paglia on Palin
Palin is Rosie the Riviter?

"Women in Politics," First FRG Meeting of 08-09

The Feminist Reading Group invites all interested participants to join us for our first meeting of the term on Wednesday, October 8^th, from 1:00-3:00 pm in UC 274: “Women in Politics.” Scheduled on the heels of Canada’s English-language Federal Election debate, as well as the U.S. Vice-Presidential debate (October 2^nd), this meeting will provide us with a forum for discussing women in politics (more broadly), but will take a special interest in the phenomenon of Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin (more specifically). Discussions may be preliminarily concerned with how Palin’s candidacy has been framed in terms of identity politics, or how it has by turns engaged, re-ignited, or ignored historical and ongoing feminist debates.

No formal preparation for this meeting is required, as we will provide select material from news and media sources at the meeting itself. If anyone has material that they would like to contribute for discussion (including online sources), please feel free to send it along ahead of time. All are welcome!

For more information on the Feminist Reading Group, please visit:

http://www.uwo.ca/english/site/rgroups/fem.html

Thanks,

The FRG

Problematizing Power in Buffy:Last FRG Meeting of the Term!

For our last scheduled meeting of the term, the Feminist Reading Group will be screening select scenes from Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s final season. The brief screening will be followed by some discussion around how Buffy negotiates individualized and collective forms of power for women.

A Burden We Can’t Share?: Problematizing Power in Buffy
Tuesday, April 8th – 1:30-3:00 pm
UC 274

We hope to see you there!

Performance Studies Research Group Event THIS WEEK!!

The Performance Studies Research Group is hosting Dr Susan Fast, of McMaster University's Department of English and Cultural Studies, on March 19 from 3-4pm in UC 224A. Dr Fast, whose current SSHRC-funded research initiative explores the politics of representation in the work of all-girl rock tribute bands, will be delivering a talk entitled "Theorizing the Copy: Gender, Virtuosity, and Originality in Tribute Band Performances." Dr Fast will speak for approximately 20-25 minutes, and will then open the floor to a broader discussion of the issues her paper will raise. Please mark your calendars, and encourage your students to join us for what will be a stimulating paper and discussion!

Susan Fast is a musicologist, who began her academic career as a Medievalist, with a focus on the Aristotelian-influenced scholasticism of the late 13th and early 14th centuries in Northern France. Her focus shifted to popular music in the mid 1990’s, and has, since then, been focused on constructions of identity in popular music performance; theoretical perspectives from performance studies have been particularly influential in her work. She has produced two books, the first of which is a critical edition of the fourteenth-century treatise Musica speculativa, by the Parisian music theorist and mathematician Jean de Meurs (published by the Institute of Medieval Music, 1994). She is also author of In the Houses of the Holy: Led Zeppelin and the Power of Rock Music (Oxford, 2001), a collection of essays that explores the body in performance, gender and sexuality, cultural appropriation/hybridity, and ritual/mythology in rock music. Her publications also include articles on Live Aid and cultural memory, constructions of authenticity in U2, Tina Turner’s gendered and racialized identity in the 1960’s, issues of feminism and rock criticism, and on the mass-mediated benefit concerts that appeared after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Her current project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, investigates issues related to gender, race and normative genre boundaries in all female tribute bands to hard rock and heavy metal.

The Axe Effect: Targeting Advertising Campaigns – A FRG focus group/coffeehouse

The first FRG meeting of 2008 will be held on March 4 from 1:30-2:30 in UC274. The theme for our meeting will be "The Axe Effect: Targeting Advertising Campaigns." This meeting will be an interactive discussion on the representation of women in current advertising. Some of us are coming equipped with examples from print and television advertising – feel free to bring along your own examples, or just come as you are. We have reserved a smart classroom space, so the access of internet resources or other electronic material will not be a problem.
Please see the link below for a small sample of the type of advertising we will be discussing in relation to representations of women, and issues of feminist politics.
Hope to see you all there!

Click Here to See a Sample Axe Ad

Click Here to see another "Axe Effect" Ad that Amber has suggested

Discussion on Harlem Renaissance Theatre Readings

• Angelina Weld Grimké (1880-1958): A lot of Grimké’s poetry speaks to her desire to love and be loved by another woman. Her lesbian identity as an influence to her poetry has been discussed by theorists like Barbara Christian. Grimké’s love for other women is best seen in the third stanza of her poem "Naughty Nan". Click here to see the poem. Though her sexual identity is not overtly specified in Rachel, the paintings that are specified as stage direction at the beginning of the play speak to these larger sexual issues. Specifically, Burne-Jones’ “Golden Stairs” (1880) which can be seen on the Tate Gallery website here, can be argued to have homoerotic overtones. This relates to how the scene setting and architecture of the play is very detailed and deliberately chosen.

• The racial concerns seen in Rachel are not echoed as much in her poetry. Rachel published in 1920. First presented by NAACP in 1916. The play is said to be a response to W.E.B DuBois request for theatre, by and for African-Americans.

• I see two main themes to the play:

1. Lynching
2. The tension between motherhood and echoes of infanticide.

• Touch is also seen throughout the text, and is especially problematic when it comes to Rachel herself. On page 24 for example Rachel’s hug is described as a strangle. Also, Rachel’s dislike of being touched by John Strong towards the end of the play seems to be coupled with a rape discourse.

• Discussion Questions:

1. How does architecture function in the play? What does it mean that on pg.5 Mrs. Loving says that the poor live on the top floor, and how does this relate to the opposite use of contemporary architecture?
2. She originally called the play The Pervert, Blessed are the Barren and The Daughter before being titled Rachel. What are the implications of these titles?
3. How do you see the play ending? Does she kill Jimmy, does she commit suicide?
4. What is the function of the rape discourse in relation to John Strong?

Discussion on Native Canadian Theatre Readings

On Monday, the Feminist Reading Group had a lively discussion of Annie Mae’s Movement by Canadian playwright, Yvette Nolan. Much of our discussion around this play was concerned with the role played by gender politics in male-dominated activist movements.

For further information/context for Nolan's play, please see the following, taken from Yvette Nolan's page on the Native Earth Performing Arts site:

Native Earth Performing Arts: Yvette Nolan
http://webhome.idirect.com/~naterth/yvette.html

It has been twenty five years since the body of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, a Mi'qmak woman from Pictou Landing, Nova Scotia, was found on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Twenty five years since the FBI cut off her hands and informed us she died from exposure. Twenty five years and her Murder is still unsolved. I did not write this play to explain what happened to Anna Mae. Rather I wanted to explore what it must have been like to be Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, a woman in a man's movement, a Canadian in America, an Aboriginal in a white dominant culture at a time when it felt like we really could change the world. I wanted to give voice to one who they tried to silence in life and in death. I never intended to write a documentary. What really happened to Anna Mae back in 1975/1976 cannot be truly known, not to the satisfaction of her family and her friends. The facts are now lost in disinformation and denial, in misinformation and memory. Instead of facts, I am looking for the truths we can gleam from examining the life and death of Anna Mae Aquash: that we must fight for what we believe in; that we cannot know the consequences of our actions; that we live on in the work that we do and the people we affect long after we have passed from this world.

Performance Studies Research Group Event

Please come out to support the PSRG!!

The Western Performance Studies Research Group (PSRG) Presents:
"Fashioning Female Modernity: The Revolution in Modern Gowns and the 'Psychology of Stage Clothes'"
By Dr. Marlis Schweitzer (Department of Theatre, York University)
Tuesday, December 4 from 3:30-4:30 in UC 224A
Dr. Schweitzer’s work is interdisciplinary and her talk will be of interest to those who work in theatre studies, social history, performance theory, and women’s studies. We hope that many of you will join us for what promises to be a fascinating presentation and discussion!
Please find attached a poster announcing the event that we hope you will distribute to your department, colleagues, and students.
About Marlis Schweitzer:
Marlis Schweitzer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre at York University. She has published in a number of journals including American Quarterly, The Journal of Women's History, Theatre Research in Canada, and Canadian Theatre Review. She is currently completing a book entitled Becoming Fashionable: Actresses, Fashion, and American Consumer Culture, forthcoming with the University of Pennsylvania Press. Her latest research looks at the men and women who laid the foundation for contemporary celebrity culture in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century through their work as press agents, photographers, literary agents, and managers.
About the Performance Studies Research Group (PSRG):
The Western Performance Studies Research Group explores any and all aspects of "performance" at UWO. We are an interdisciplinary group of scholars who meet twice per term to share our work and insights with like-minded academics. New members are always welcome.

Discussion Question on Urdu Theatre Readings

During the FRG meeting this week, we began discussing, and exploring, the connection between women's clothing (cloaking) of the body, and the space that a body occupies. Jameela Nishat's play, "Purdah" [curtain/veil] addresses these issues by calling the Islamic burqa a portable room, or closet, which immediately undermines the current construction of the burqa as a cloaking device that seeks to render femininity invisible in the public domain. The play suggests, however, that the burqa may render femininity invisible, but makes the female body highly visible, a "subject" of the male gaze. The one character who wears the burqa on the street, however, is the only one capable enough (brave enough?) to return the gaze, to give as good as she gets. The question we attempted to address in such a complex representation of the veiled body is: what does this particular character's response say about the assumptions that the veil is a manifestation of the patriarchal oppressive machinery?

Another interesting avenue opened up by the play is Nishat's (assumed) play with lighting and disembodied voices that question the necessity for veiling the female body. The written version of the play that we have provides very little stage direction. We are assuming that scene 3 (in which multiple, unidentified, voices make numerous statements about the impact of the veil on women's lives) takes place in total darkness, with little or no light. If that indeed is true, then is the stage transformed into the dark interior, presumably the inside of a burqa? What does that suggest about space, body, performance and voice in a feminist context? Is she suggesting that the cloaking of a female body is more than a religious issue?

Following is a link to a poem by Nishat, entitled "Wearing a Burqa", one that highlights some of the issues we've been addressing in our meetings and discussions. Since the play under discussion is not readily available, the poem should help launch some interesting discussions about the role of religion, culture and cloaks in women's lives. Even though the context of the poem (and the play) is quite specific--both are addressing an audience that presumably reads and understands Urdu, and is, thus, part of the North Indian Muslim population--the poem itself seems to transcend issues of translation and cultural specificity. Any comments, questions, suggestions about the material are welcome. Hopefully, we can launch a productive discussion around these issues.
http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=10034&x=1

Notes from First Meeting of FRG

This term’s first Feminist Reading Group explored Urdu theatre as the first installment of our fall series, “Unheard Voices in Women’s Theatre.” Many thanks to Amber Riaz who not only selected our readings, but also provided valuable geographical, cultural, and political contexts for our discussion.

We began by exploring Jameela Nishat’s Purdah– investigating the text’s complex engagements with issues of voice, embodiment, and spaces of performance. We then connected these issues to the text’s representation of the burqa as a portable architecture that houses voice, body, and performance in multiple (and often resistive) ways.
We also discussed Rasheed Jahan’s Woman, and centred our discussion on the text’s querying of women’s property rights.

Please join us for our upcoming meetings. Each meeting will take place from 11:30-12:30 in UC 282, and all the readings are available in the Feminist Reading Group folder in Leanne’s office (UC 180).

November 12 – Native Canadian Theatre
Discussion led by Allison Hargreaves
Reading: Annie Mae’s Movement by Yvette Nolan, and “Writing About Anna Mae Pictou Aquash” by Devon Abbott Mihesuah.

December 3 – Harlem Renaissance Theatre
Discussion led by Ann Gagne
Reading: Rachel by Angelina Weld Grimké