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9	10	11	12	13	14 VIRTUAL: Bucknell University Press Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities Collection Discussion with Jeremy Chow VIRTUAL: Bucknell University Press Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities Collection Discussion with Jeremy Chow April 14, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm 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 •	15
16	17	18	19	20 VIRTUAL: Speaking Yiddish to Chickens with The South Jersey Holocaust Coalition VIRTUAL: Speaking Yiddish to Chickens with The South Jersey Holocaust Coalition April 20, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm Join us virtually! Please scroll down to register for our next event, "Speaking Yiddish to Chickens" presented by Seth Stern on Thursday, April 20th from 4:30 - 5:45 PM EST. Registrants will receive an email with a Zoom link prior to the workshop. Please note if you would like your email address to be added to our events mailing list, otherwise it will not be used or published in any other way except for registration. Please register each name separately. This event is sponsored by the South Jersey Holocaust Education Coalition and the Jewish Federation of Cumberland, Gloucester, and Salem Counties. Register here. VIRTUAL: 40 Years of HOME GIRLS by Barbara Smith - Honoring a Black Feminist Literary Classic VIRTUAL: 40 Years of HOME GIRLS by Barbara Smith - Honoring a Black Feminist Literary Classic April 20, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm 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. • •	21	22
23 In Person: Gray Love at Chatham Bookstore In Person: Gray Love at Chatham Bookstore April 23, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm The Chatham Bookstore, 27 Main St, Chatham, NY 12037, USA Gray Love: Stories about Dating and New Relationships after 60 book event with contributors Stephanie Brown, Phyllis Carito, Isabel Hill, and Stephanie Spear. Introducted by co-editor Nan Bauer-Maglin •	24	25 VIRTUAL EVENT: Speaking Yiddish to Chickens with the Center for Jewish History VIRTUAL EVENT: Speaking Yiddish to Chickens with the Center for Jewish History April 25, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm 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 •	26 IN PERSON: Murder Town, USA Conversation with Yasser Arafat Payne and Dr. William Cross, Jr. IN PERSON: Murder Town, USA Conversation with Yasser Arafat Payne and Dr. William Cross, Jr. April 26, 2023 @ 11:45 am - 1:45 pm Graduate Center--CUNY on 34th and Fifth Avenue This in person conversation between Yassar Afrat Payne and Dr. William Cross, Jr. about the forthcoming Murder Town, USA: Homicide, Structural Violence, and Activism in Wilmington will take place at the CUNY Graduate Center in Room 6304.01. Murder Town, USA is a street ethnography that describes how fifteen men and women (ages 21-48), formerly involved with the streets, studied and did activism on gun violence in Wilmington, Delaware. This team examined how race, ethnicity, gender, poverty, white-wealth and small-city size contributed to a street identity and especially to the spread of gun violence. The book will be published by RUP on July 14, 2023 and is available for pre-order now. •	27	28	29
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VIRTUAL: Bucknell University Press Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities Collection Discussion with Jeremy Chow
VIRTUAL: Bucknell University Press Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities Collection Discussion with Jeremy Chow

April 14, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

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

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VIRTUAL: Speaking Yiddish to Chickens with The South Jersey Holocaust Coalition
VIRTUAL: Speaking Yiddish to Chickens with The South Jersey Holocaust Coalition

April 20, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm

Join us virtually! Please scroll down to register for our next event, "Speaking Yiddish to Chickens" presented by Seth Stern on Thursday, April 20th from 4:30 - 5:45 PM EST.

Registrants will receive an email with a Zoom link prior to the workshop.

Please note if you would like your email address to be added to our events mailing list, otherwise it will not be used or published in any other way except for registration.

Please register each name separately.

This event is sponsored by the South Jersey Holocaust Education Coalition and the Jewish Federation of Cumberland, Gloucester, and Salem Counties.

Register here.
VIRTUAL: 40 Years of HOME GIRLS by Barbara Smith - Honoring a Black Feminist Literary Classic
VIRTUAL: 40 Years of HOME GIRLS by Barbara Smith - Honoring a Black Feminist Literary Classic

April 20, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

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.

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In Person: Gray Love at Chatham Bookstore
In Person: Gray Love at Chatham Bookstore

April 23, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
The Chatham Bookstore, 27 Main St, Chatham, NY 12037, USA

Gray Love: Stories about Dating and New Relationships after 60 book event with contributors Stephanie Brown, Phyllis Carito, Isabel Hill, and Stephanie Spear.

Introducted by co-editor Nan Bauer-Maglin

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VIRTUAL EVENT: Speaking Yiddish to Chickens with the Center for Jewish History
VIRTUAL EVENT: Speaking Yiddish to Chickens with the Center for Jewish History

April 25, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

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

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IN PERSON: Murder Town, USA Conversation with Yasser Arafat Payne and Dr. William Cross, Jr.
IN PERSON: Murder Town, USA Conversation with Yasser Arafat Payne and Dr. William Cross, Jr.

April 26, 2023 @ 11:45 am - 1:45 pm
Graduate Center--CUNY on 34th and Fifth Avenue

This in person conversation between Yassar Afrat Payne and Dr. William Cross, Jr. about the forthcoming Murder Town, USA: Homicide, Structural Violence, and Activism in Wilmington will take place at the CUNY Graduate Center in Room 6304.01.

Murder Town, USA is a street ethnography that describes how fifteen men and women (ages 21-48), formerly involved with the streets, studied and did activism on gun violence in Wilmington, Delaware. This team examined how race, ethnicity, gender, poverty, white-wealth and small-city size contributed to a street identity and especially to the spread of gun violence.

The book will be published by RUP on July 14, 2023 and is available for pre-order now.

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9	10	11	12	13	14 VIRTUAL: Bucknell University Press Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities Collection Discussion with Jeremy Chow VIRTUAL: Bucknell University Press Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities Collection Discussion with Jeremy Chow April 14, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm 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 •	15
16	17	18	19	20 VIRTUAL: Speaking Yiddish to Chickens with The South Jersey Holocaust Coalition VIRTUAL: Speaking Yiddish to Chickens with The South Jersey Holocaust Coalition April 20, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm Join us virtually! Please scroll down to register for our next event, "Speaking Yiddish to Chickens" presented by Seth Stern on Thursday, April 20th from 4:30 - 5:45 PM EST. Registrants will receive an email with a Zoom link prior to the workshop. Please note if you would like your email address to be added to our events mailing list, otherwise it will not be used or published in any other way except for registration. Please register each name separately. This event is sponsored by the South Jersey Holocaust Education Coalition and the Jewish Federation of Cumberland, Gloucester, and Salem Counties. Register here. VIRTUAL: 40 Years of HOME GIRLS by Barbara Smith - Honoring a Black Feminist Literary Classic VIRTUAL: 40 Years of HOME GIRLS by Barbara Smith - Honoring a Black Feminist Literary Classic April 20, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm 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. • •	21	22
23 In Person: Gray Love at Chatham Bookstore In Person: Gray Love at Chatham Bookstore April 23, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm The Chatham Bookstore, 27 Main St, Chatham, NY 12037, USA Gray Love: Stories about Dating and New Relationships after 60 book event with contributors Stephanie Brown, Phyllis Carito, Isabel Hill, and Stephanie Spear. Introducted by co-editor Nan Bauer-Maglin •	24	25 VIRTUAL EVENT: Speaking Yiddish to Chickens with the Center for Jewish History VIRTUAL EVENT: Speaking Yiddish to Chickens with the Center for Jewish History April 25, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm 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 •	26 IN PERSON: Murder Town, USA Conversation with Yasser Arafat Payne and Dr. William Cross, Jr. IN PERSON: Murder Town, USA Conversation with Yasser Arafat Payne and Dr. William Cross, Jr. April 26, 2023 @ 11:45 am - 1:45 pm Graduate Center--CUNY on 34th and Fifth Avenue This in person conversation between Yassar Afrat Payne and Dr. William Cross, Jr. about the forthcoming Murder Town, USA: Homicide, Structural Violence, and Activism in Wilmington will take place at the CUNY Graduate Center in Room 6304.01. Murder Town, USA is a street ethnography that describes how fifteen men and women (ages 21-48), formerly involved with the streets, studied and did activism on gun violence in Wilmington, Delaware. This team examined how race, ethnicity, gender, poverty, white-wealth and small-city size contributed to a street identity and especially to the spread of gun violence. The book will be published by RUP on July 14, 2023 and is available for pre-order now. •	27	28	29
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