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The Third Body: Black Women, Black History, and Speaking Difficult Truths Book Talk

  • 1.  The Third Body: Black Women, Black History, and Speaking Difficult Truths Book Talk

    Posted Jan 30, 2025 12:02 PM
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    FYI!!

    The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is pleased to invite you to our first book talk of the Spring 2025 semester, The Third Body: Black Women, Black History, and Speaking Difficult Truths. The talk will take place on Wednesday, February 26, 2025 at 12:30 pm in SQH 3105 and online.

    How have Black women scholars grappled with pain so thick it cuts off the tongue? By speaking around the wound. This talk from Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson (Johns Hopkins University) explores the history of Black women creating history, speaking hard truths, and quilting healing from difficult pasts, again and again.

    For more information about the talk and to RSVP, please visit https://go.umd.edu/wgssjohnson2025. A flyer for the event is attached to this email, so please share with colleagues and students you think may be interested.  Please submit any disability accommodations to Elece Smith at wgss@umd.edu no later than Wednesday, February 19, 2025.


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    Take care,
    Twanna 

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    Have a wonderful day and week. Stay safe and well.

    Take care, 
    Twanna 

    Twanna Hodge, MLIS (she, her, hers)
    PhD Student | Information Studies
    University of Maryland, College Park
    2013 Spectrum Scholar  
    2022 Spectrum Doctoral Fellow