Event Title

Breakout Session 1 - Working-Class Feminisms

Presenter Information

Lara Vapnek, St. John's UniversityFollow
Jackie Collens, Sarah Lawrence CollegeFollow
Donna T. Haverty-Stacke, CUNY Hunter CollegeFollow
Cynthia Tobar, CUNY Bronx Community College
Lorette Cameron, Sarah Lawrence CollegeFollow
Emily A. Parker, Sarah Lawrence CollegeFollow
Kate Shaughnessy
Sarah Ahmad, Sarah Lawrence CollegeFollow
Gabi Phend, Sarah Lawrence CollegeFollow
Velvet A. Ross, Sarah Lawrence CollegeFollow
Kristy Staniszewski, Sarah Lawrence CollegeFollow

Location

Heimbold Visual Arts Center, Sarah Lawrence College

Start Date

5-3-2016 11:15 AM

Description

Breakout Session 1

Working-Class Feminisms

• Chair: Lara Vapnek
• Jackie Collens, Sarah Lawrence College, Leonora O’Reilly and the Woman Suffrage Movement
• Donna T. Haverty-Stacke, Hunter College, CUNY, The Radical Feminism of Grace Carlson and her Socialist Workers Party Sisters
• Cynthia Tobar, Bronx Community College, CUNY, Empathy and Feminist Activism: Leadership and Social Change at Welfare Rights Initiative

Roundtable Discussions:

Labor Pains: What can women in different lines of work learn from each other regarding struggles for equity on the job?

• Lorette Cameron
• Emily Parker
• Kate Shaughnessy

Challenging Invisibility: Why does working women’s leadership in struggles for social justice receive far less attention than it deserves?

• Sarah Ahmad
• Gabi Phend
• Velvet Ross
• Kristy Staniszewski