DaMaris Hill Author of "A Bound Woman Is A Dangerous Thing"

On Thursday, April 28 at 6:30 p.m., the Ferguson Library will host a reading and presentation featuring DaMaris Hill, author of A Bound Woman Is A Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland. The virtual program will take place on Zoom. The presentation is generously supported by the Friends of the Ferguson Library and co-sponsored by Domus and Stamford Stands Against Racism (SSAR). Registration is required and Zoom login information will be included in the registration confirmation. Register at https://tinyurl.com/hayfyeht.

From Harriet Tubman to Assata Shakur, Ida B. Wells to Sandra Bland and Black Lives Matter, Black women freedom fighters have braved violence, scorn, despair, and isolation in order to lodge their
protests. In A Bound Woman Is A Dangerous Thing, DaMaris Hill honors their experiences with responses to her heroes that is at times, harrowing and at times, hopeful.

DaMaris Hill is Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Kentucky. She is a 2020 NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry.

For more information, call 203 351-8221.