Category: Events
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Women's History Month: Judith Butler
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Read More: Women's History Month: Judith ButlerPhilosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1956. Surrounded by the Hungarian and Russian Jewish traditions of her family, Butler attended a Hebrew school and took special classes on Jewish ethics. This education was the beginning of Butler’s introduction to philosophy. In an interview with Haaretz,…
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Women's History Month: Harper Lee
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Read More: Women's History Month: Harper LeeHarper Lee (born Nelle Harper Lee) was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. After attending the all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery, she transferred to the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa where she pursued English literature. Lee spent a year working towards the university’s law degree as an undergrad, but decided…
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Women's History Month: Margaret Sanger
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Read More: Women's History Month: Margaret SangerMargaret Sanger was a feminist, nurse, activist, writer, and national and international advocate for women’s access to contraception. Sanger was born Margaret Higgins to an Irish-American family in 1879; she had ten siblings. She studied to become a nurse practitioner and began working toward a registered nursing degree at White…
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Women's History Month: Camille Dungy
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Read More: Women's History Month: Camille DungyCSU’s own Professor Camille Dungy is an award-winning author of four full-length poetry collections and the editor of three poetry anthologies. Her first collection of literary essays, Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History, will be published in June. Dungy was born in Denver in 1972, but…
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Women's History Month: Luci Tapahonso
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Read More: Women's History Month: Luci TapahonsoLuci Tapahonso is a Navajo poet and a lecturer in Native American Studies. Born in 1953, she was raised on her family farm on the Navajo reservation in Shiprock, New Mexico with her eleven siblings. English was not her first language, but rather something she learned second to her native Navajo language,…
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Women's History Month: Lucretia Mott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy Stone
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Read More: Women's History Month: Lucretia Mott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy StoneEarlier this month, we featured Sojourner Truth, an abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Today we are featuring a few other early women involved in similar issues: Lucretia Mott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy Stone. Lucretia Mott was an American Quaker, abolitionist, a women’s rights activist, and a social…
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Women's History Month: Alison Bechdel
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Read More: Women's History Month: Alison BechdelAuthor and cartoonist Alison Bechdel was born in Beech Creek, Pennsylvania, to Helen and Bruce Bechdel. Bruce, her father, operated a funeral home part time, which Alison and her brothers, Bruce and John, called the Fun Home. At the age of 19, she came out to her parents as a…
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Women's History Month: Roxane Gay
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Read More: Women's History Month: Roxane Gay~from Communications Coordinator Jill Salahub Disclaimer: I’m completely obsessed with Roxane Gay right now. I finally started Bad Feminist recently, which I’d been wanting to read ever since that time a few years ago at a department picnic when I asked Antero Garcia (who at the time was a CSU English department…
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Women's History Month: Temple Grandin
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Read More: Women's History Month: Temple GrandinEven though she didn’t learn to speak until she was 3.5 years old, Temple Grandin is the author of six books, including the national bestsellers Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism and Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior. She is a professor of Animal…
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Women's History Month: S.E. Hinton
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Read More: Women's History Month: S.E. Hinton50 years ago, a 16 year old from Oklahoma named Susan Eloise Hinton published her first book. She’d started writing it when she was 14, and it became the best selling young adult novel of all time. I began writing in grade school, eager to make my own stories happen…