There is a group of people around the world who are oppressed regardless of race, class, economic status, country of origin or religion: women. I make my way through Tribeca with my Borough of Manhattan Community College studentsâwho had spent the semester studying civil disobedienceâfrom our classroom in the Fiterman building, up Greenwich Street to the main campus at 199 Chambers Street, passing Roy Shifrinâs bronze sculpture of Icarus in the entrance plaza, to moderate a panel for Womenâs HistoryâHerstoryâmonth. This free and public event, âWriting Women,â was a conversation with three women who write in different disciplinesâCeleste Lim, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Terese Svobodaâregarding their accomplishments and the theme of Women Rising. My students and I make our way to one of the larger lecture rooms N451, picking up a large coffee with skim milk (requested for Spivak by her lovely assistant Kristen Reichhardt) from the downstairs cafeteria on the way. While we waited for the event to begin, the seats filled up as people trickled in, and the panelists began to talk and joke with the students. After I had introduced the three amazing women, each read from their work or shared an anecdote before I began the Q&A. CELESTE LIM, TERESE SVOBODA, GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK with Gabriel Don
There is a group of people around the world who are oppressed regardless of race, class, economic status, country of origin or religion: women. I make my way through Tribeca with my Borough of Manhattan Community College studentsâwho had spent the semester studying civil disobedienceâfrom our classroom in the Fiterman building, up Greenwich Street to the main campus at 199 Chambers Street, passing Roy Shifrinâs bronze sculpture of Icarus in the entrance plaza, to moderate a panel for Womenâs HistoryâHerstoryâmonth. This free and public event, âWriting Women,â was a conversation with three women who write in different disciplinesâCeleste Lim, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Terese Svobodaâregarding their accomplishments and the theme of Women Rising. My students and I make our way to one of the larger lecture rooms N451, picking up a large coffee with skim milk (requested for Spivak by her lovely assistant Kristen Reichhardt) from the downstairs cafeteria on the way. While we waited for the event to begin, the seats filled up as people trickled in, and the panelists began to talk and joke with the students. After I had introduced the three amazing women, each read from their work or shared an anecdote before I began the Q&A. CELESTE LIM, TERESE SVOBODA, GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK with Gabriel Don
