Kristen Hogan @ ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ, author of "The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability" in McLennan Library Research Commons Room A
 on March 15th from 4-5:30PM, Arts W-215 (Unfortunately, this room is not accessible)
Kristen Hogan, author of "The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability," will be speaking about her work at ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University.
Kristen Hogan is the Barnard Library and Academic Information SystemsDirector for Collections Strategy and Library Operations. At the University of Texas, she served as the English Literature and Women’s and Gender Studies Librarian, the Associate Director of the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, and most recently as the Education Coordinator of the Gender and Sexuality Center. She has also worked in feminist bookstores, including as book buyer and co-manager of the Toronto Women’s Bookstore, a racial justice-based and trans affirming feminist bookstore. Kristen loves to learn about, discuss, and work toward racial justice-based queer feminism in everyday life. Her book, The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability (Duke University Press, 2016), was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award this past summer. She has a PhD in English Literature and an MS in Information Studies, both from UT.
Her talk is part of The Feminist and Accessible Publishing/ Communications Technologies Practices Speaker and Workshop Series. This series seeks to bring together scholars, creators, and industry working at the intersections of digital humanities, critical approaches to publishing practices, innovative communication strategies, and making research dissemination more accessible.
Nicolas Longtin-Martel of Montreal's feminist bookstore L'Euguélionne will represent the bookstore. Books will be available for purchase.
This event was made possible thanks to the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies of ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ, Media @ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ, ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ's Department of History and Classical Studies, the William Dawson Fund, and L'Euguélionne: Montreal's Feminist Bookstore.