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Black Futures, Feminist Solidarities

Join us for this virtual discussion with Margo Okazawa-Rey—educator, writer, and social justice activist—who will be discussing the importance of and steps to building feminist solidarities to resist gendered, racialized, classed violence, militarism, and conflict in the U.S. and across the world. A founding member of the Combahee River Collective and well known for her transnational feminist advocacy, Prof.

VIRTUAL: Yale Needs Women Virtual Event

Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant is the true story of the challenges and triumphs of the first class of women at Yale College. Through stories and conversation, author Anne Gardiner Perkins, Connie Royster ’72, and former Assistant Dean Betsy Thomas will highlight the strength, resilience, and courage of those groundbreaking women and their lasting impact on Yale. Join the Working Women’s Network and Yale African American Affinity Group for this engaging, educational, and empowering event.

Teachable Moments: Learning From Parents of Children with a Disability

Join DiversAbility at Yale, Working Women’s Network, Yale African American Affinity Group, and WorkLife for a panel event that will feature university staff sharing their experiences of parenting a child with a disability. Topics will include: successful parenting techniques, child advocacy, educational resources, self-care, family networks, and more.

VIRTUAL: Disability (In)Visibility: Moving from Inclusion to Justice

Join us for our 2021 Pan Asian American Heritage Month Keynote featuring Alice Wong (she/her). Alice is a disabled activist, media maker, and consultant. She is the Founder and Director of the Disability Visibility Project, an online community dedicated to creating, sharing and amplifying disability media and culture created in 2014. Currently, Alice is the editor of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, an anthology of essays by disabled people, available now by Vintage Books (2020). You can find her on Twitter: @SFdirewolf.

I’m Made In America

Join the Yale African American Affinity Group, Asian Network at Yale, DiversAbility at Yale, Yale Latino Networking Group, and Yale Veterans Network for an International Women’s Month event of soulful vibes that will build communities through songs, spoken word, and poetry readings. I’m Made In America will feature Theresa Tha SONGBIRD and special guest Tiffany Stewart (New Haven Native) “Jewels From a Black Diamond”.

Women in Medicine at Yale Lunch & Learn

Join the Yale African American Affinity Group for a lunch and learn that will showcase women in medicine at Yale. Aba Black, MD, will discuss her action plans, advocacy, professional growth, education, and inspiration for helping the community.

Dr. Black is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Section of General Internal Medicine at Yale School of Medicine, where she serves as the Associate Program Director for Diversity and Inclusion in the Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program.

BIPOC in the Built Wiki Edit-A-Thon: Grassroots Collectives + BIPOC Futurists

This is the final day in this week-long virtual event participants will build community while creating new and edit existing Wikipedia pages of BIPOC designers, activists, planners and others whose work is connected to the built environment. Attendees will participate in training and begin editing Wikipedia pages of BIPOC figures who have left their mark on the fields of art, architecture, art history, activism, dance, graphic design, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, and more.

BIPOC in the Built Wiki Edit-A-Thon: Public Space + Public Art

This is the fourth day in this week-long virtual event participants will build community while creating new and edit existing Wikipedia pages of BIPOC designers, activists, planners and others whose work is connected to the built environment. Attendees will participate in training and begin editing Wikipedia pages of BIPOC figures who have left their mark on the fields of art, architecture, art history, activism, dance, graphic design, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, and more.

BIPOC in the Built Wiki Edit-A-Thon: Community Activism + Built Environment Scholars

This is the third day in this week-long virtual event participants will build community while creating new and edit existing Wikipedia pages of BIPOC designers, activists, planners and others whose work is connected to the built environment. Attendees will participate in training and begin editing Wikipedia pages of BIPOC figures who have left their mark on the fields of art, architecture, art history, activism, dance, graphic design, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, and more.

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