Spelman College Women's Research and Resource Center Hosts 15th Annual Toni Cade Bambara Scholar-Activism Conference

The Spelman College Women’s Research and Resource Center will present its 15th Annual Toni Cade Bambara Scholar-Activism Conference, “Black Feminist Realness Taking Back Our Minds, Bodies, & Power,” April 1-2, 2016. The two-day conference is developed and facilitated by Spelman students under the leadership of Bahati Kuumba, Ph.D., associate professor of women's studies, and associate director of the Spelman Women's Research and Resource Center.

The Toni Cade Bambara Scholar-Activism Conference honors the legacy of feminist author, scholar, activist and filmmaker Toni Cade Bambara. During the conference, there are presentations, workshops and performance pieces that explore dimensions of Black women’s lives.

The conference will include the following plenaries, panels and workshops:

• Black Feminist Realness: Revolutionary, Ratchet and Transnational
• Zionism, Women and African Liberation
• The Letters of Toni Cade Bambara and Audre Lorde
• Danger: Feminists Traveling
• The Spelman Womyn: Expanding the Conversation of Gender Identity and Inclusion
• Black Women Redefining Narratives in Film, TV and Social Media
• Our Ego-Eros: Another Look of Audre Lorde’s Uses of Erotic, Erotic as Power
• “I Am” – Identity & Personal Branding, and a “Made Up Mind”
• Hip Hop as Political Space in the 21st Century
• Black Femme Embodiment as Critical Resistance
• Taking Back Our Bodies

Featured speakers include:

Beverly Guy Sheftall, Ph.D., Black feminist scholar-activist, and founding director/professor, Women’s Research and Resource Center, Spelman College; Salamishah Tillet, Ph.D., Black feminist scholar-activist, English & Africana studies, University of Pennsylvania; Kijua Sanders-McMurtry, Ph.D., Black feminist women and girls leadership advocate, interim vice president of student life and dean of students, Agnes Scott College; Holly Smith, Spelman College activist-archivist; Nancy Wright, Pan-African activist, All-African Women’s Revolutionary Union/All African Peoples Revolutionary Party; and Malika Redmond, Black feminist reproductive rights activist and founding director of Women Engaged.

The event is free and open to the public. Onsite registration begins Friday, April 1, at 6:30 p.m. and will continue at 9 a.m. Saturday, April 2, in the lobby of the Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby, Ed.D., Academic Center. For more information, call 404-270-5625.