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Cherríe Moraga, Internationally Recognized Writer and Activist, In Conversation with Professor Vanessa Pérez-Rosario
April 2, 2019
What
Brooklyn College’s We Stand Against Hate event series presents Cherríe Moraga on her memoir Native Country of the Heart, in conversation with Modern Languages and Literatures Professor Vanessa Pérez Rosario.
Who
Cherríe Moraga is an internationally recognized poet, playwright, essayist, and memoirist. She was the co-editor (with Gloria Anzaldúa) of the avant-garde feminist anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. As a political and literary essayist, she has published several collections of writings, including: A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness; Loving in The War Years: Lo que nunca pasó por sus labios; The Last Generation; and Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood. Moraga is the recipient of the United States Artist Rockefeller Fellowship for Literature, the American Studies Association Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Lambda Foundation’s “Pioneer” award, among others.
Where
Woody Tanger Auditorium, Brooklyn College Library
When
Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 11 a.m.
