Our Women’s Week keynote address is this Tuesday! Come hear “Calling In the Calling Out Culture” from the social philosopher who first wrote about calling in versus calling out and then attend a Q&A workshop with her the next morning. A short biography of Loretta Ross is below. Don’t miss out on this opportunity!
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Activist, public intellectual, scholar, and author Loretta Ross will speak about how to build a unified and strategic human rights movement that weaves together our strengths, calling people in rather than calling them out, and uses our differences as a platform for modeling a positive future built on justice and the politics of love, as part of Women’s Week.
Ross started her career in activism and social change in the 1970s. Her work emphasizes the intersectionality of social justice issues and how intersectionality can fuel transformation. She will discuss “Calling In The Calling Out Culture” at 7:30 p.m. on March 26 in Pruis Hall. The presentation is free and open to the public.
Ross is a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” award and an Associate Professor at Smith College. Throughout her 50-year career, she has co-written three books on reproductive justice, worked with the National Organization for Women (NOW), the National Black Women’s Health Project, the Center for Democratic Renewal (National Anti-Klan Network), the National Center for Human Rights Education, and was a co-founder and the National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective.
In 2012, Ross retired as an organizer to teach and follow her passion to educate. In 1996, she founded the first center in the U.S. to innovate creative human rights education for all students, transforming social justice issues to be more collaborative and less divisive. In her work Calling In the Calling Out Culture, she transforms how people can overcome political differences to use empathy and respect to guide difficult conversations.
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