Author, activist Robin Morgan to lecture at UNCA April 3

Event description

From UNC Asheville:

April 3rd, Humanities Lecture Hall 7 PM

Robin Morgan will present a talk: “Sisterhood Tweets and Blogs into the 21st Century.” Robin Morgan is an American poet, author, political theorist and activist, journalist, lecturer. Since the early 1960s she has been a key feminist member of the American Women’s Movement, and a leader in the international feminist movement. Her 1970 anthology Sisterhood Is Powerful has been widely credited with helping to start the general women’s movement in the US, and was cited by the New York Public Library as “One of the 100 most influential Books of the 20th Century,” along with those of Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx. She has written more than 20 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and is also known as the editor of Ms. Magazine. This event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program.

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