Panelists:Professor Nadia Brown, Political Science at Purdue Univeristy, Professor Jelani Favors, History at Clayton State, Denise Lieberman, Faculty director of Voter Access & Engagement at the Center for Social Development, Brown School at Washington University, and Professor Lester Spence, Political Science, at Johns Hopkins
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Race is on the ballot in 2020. As the country witnesses a racial reckoning, this election matters more than ever before. Trump uses racial fear to galvanize his white base. The courts decide access to voting. Racial inequalities worsen. Women's conrol over their bodies is being threatened. The country is divided. The Dept. of African & African American Studies has assembled a peer of scholars to provide historic and political context and what's at stake for the nation and Black Americans.
Missouri Historical Society presents "The Vote: What St. Louis Men Expected, What St. Louis Women Did"
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Missouri Historical Society presents "The Vote: What St. Louis Men Expected, What St. Louis Women Did"
Economist Linda Harris Dobkins
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Economist Linda Harris Dobkins will offer a look at the political and economic calculus that led Missouri legislators to ratify the 19th Amendment. Then we’ll analyze how women used their newfound political agency to either subvert or hold fast to men’s preconceived notions about what would happen once women had the vote.
Roopa Dhatt, MD, MPA
Executive Director & Co-Founder, Women in Global Health
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Dr. Roopa Dhatt is a passionate advocate for gender equality in global health and a leading voice in the movement to correct the gender imbalance in global health leadership. She is also a practicing primary care physician. Dr. Dhatt is particularly committed to addressing issues of power, privilege and intersectionality that keep many women from global health leadership roles and to opening up spaces for the voices of these women to be heard. Determined to build a movement to transform women’s leadership opportunities in health, Dr. Dhatt co-founded Women in Global Health in 2015. Today, Women in Global Health has more than 20,000 supporters in more than 90 countries and continues to grow.
Brown School's Masters and Johnson Annual Lecture: "Beyond the Gender Binary"
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Brown School's Masters and Johnson Annual Lecture: "Beyond the Gender Binary"
Alox Vaid-Menon, gender non-conforming writer and performance artist
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Alok (they/them) is a gender non-conforming writer and performance artist. Their distinctive style and poetic challenge to the gender binary have been internationally renowned. As a mixed-media artist Alok uses poetry, prose, comedy, performance, fashion design and portraiture to explore themes of gender, race, trauma, belonging and the human condition. They are the author of Femme in Public (2017) and Beyond the Gender Binary (2020). In 2019 they were honored as one of NBC’s Pride 50 and Out Magazine’s OUT 100.
