Join Bucknell University Press as they host a book discussion with editor Jeremy Chow and 7 contributors to the Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities collection. 

More about the collection can be found here: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/eighteenth-century-environmental-humanities/9781684484287

Attendees must register for the event via Zoom:

https://bucknell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3Tn29QeAQx2E7AEg9rLjsg

On Thursday, April 20th at 6:30 PM EST, join Black Women Radicals for an upcoming Zoom event honoring the 40th anniversary of Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology! This event honors Black feminist pioneers, Barbara Smith, editor of Home Girls and contributors to the anthology, Alexis De Veaux, Cheryl Clarke, and Jewelle Gomez.

You can register for the event here: https://bit.ly/homegirls40

40 years ago, Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, was published in 1983 by Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press–the first publishing house in North America devoted exclusively to publishing works by women of color. Edited by Black feminist icon Barbara Smith, Home Girls is a pioneering anthology that established the saliency of Black feminist literature, scholarship, experiences, and perspectives.

In 2000, the anthology was reissued by Rutgers University Press. Featuring profound essays and poems by Black feminists and lesbian activists, organizers, and educators, Home Girls is a literary classic that not only politicized a generation of Black feminists then and now but is an essential text examining the power of the Black feminist radical tradition.

Featured honorees Barbara Smith, Alexis De Veaux, Cheryl Clarke, and Jewelle Gomez will offer remarks on the 40th anniversary of Home Girls. An intergenerational cohort of Black feminists will offer remarks on the power of Home Girls: Carole Boyce Davies. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Shana L. Redmond, Briona Simone Jones, Bettina Judd, Krystal Leaphart, Naomi Simmons-Thorne, Maya Marshall, Nala Simone Toussaint, emerald faith, and Micha Broadnax.

The full list of contributors to Home Girls includes: Tania Abdulahad, Donna Allegra, Barbara A. Banks, Becky Birtha, Julie Carter, Cenen, Cheryl Clarke, Michelle Cliff, Michelle T. Clinton, Willie M. Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Alexis De Veaux, Jewelle L. Gomez, Akasha (Gloria) Hull, Patricia Jones, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Raymina Y. Mays, Deidre McCalla, Chirlane McCray, Pat Parker, Linda C. Powell, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Spring Redd, Gwendolyn Rogers, Kate Rushin, Ann Allen Shockley, Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, Shirley O. Steele, Luisah Teish, Jameelah Waheed, Alice Walker, and Renita Weems.

Author Seth Stern joins us to discuss his new book Speaking Yiddish to Chickens, moderated by the Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Connecticut, Avinoam Patt.

Most of the roughly 140,000 Holocaust survivors who came to the United States in the first decade after World War II settled in big cities such as New York. But a few thousand chose an alternative way of life on American farms. More of these accidental farmers wound up raising chickens in southern New Jersey than anywhere else. 

Speaking Yiddish to Chickens is the first book to chronicle this little-known chapter in American Jewish history when these mostly Eastern European refugees – including the author’s grandparents – found an unlikely refuge and gateway to new lives in the US on poultry farms. They gravitated to a section of south Jersey anchored by Vineland, a small rural city where previous waves of Jewish immigrants had built a rich network of cultural and religious institutions.

Ticket Info: Free; register at ajhs.org/events/book-talk-speaking-yiddish-to-chickens/ for a Zoom link