91社区

聽on March 15th from 4-5:30PM, Arts W-215 (Unfortunately, this room is聽not accessible)

Kristen Hogan, author of "The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability," will be speaking about her work at 91社区.

Kristen Hogan is the Barnard Library and Academic Information SystemsDirector for Collections Strategy and Library Operations. At the University of Texas, she served as the English Literature and Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Librarian, the Associate Director of the Center for Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies, and most recently as the Education Coordinator of the Gender and Sexuality Center. She has also worked in feminist bookstores, including as book buyer and co-manager of the Toronto Women鈥檚 Bookstore, a racial justice-based and trans affirming feminist bookstore. Kristen loves to learn about, discuss, and work toward racial justice-based queer feminism in everyday life. Her book, The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability (Duke University Press, 2016), was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award this past summer. She has a PhD in English Literature and an MS in Information Studies, both from UT.

Her talk is part of The Feminist and Accessible Publishing/ Communications Technologies Practices Speaker and Workshop Series. This series seeks to bring together scholars, creators, and industry working at the intersections of digital humanities, critical approaches to publishing practices, innovative communication strategies, and making research dissemination more accessible.

Nicolas Longtin-Martel of Montreal's feminist bookstore L'Eugu茅lionne will represent the bookstore. Books will be available for purchase.

This event was made possible thanks to the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies of 91社区, Media @91社区, 91社区's Department of History and Classical Studies, the William Dawson Fund, and L'Eugu茅lionne: Montreal's Feminist Bookstore.