Meredith Tax, writer and political activist since the late 1960s, has founded or co-founded a series of feminist and social justice organizations starting with Bread and Roses, an early socialist-feminist group in Boston. “Acting Across Borders” will focus on the main questions Meredith Tax explored in her influential 1970 essay "Woman and Her Mind: The Story of Everyday Life," and throughout her work as a feminist: race, class, and internationalism. This event is the 5th symposium of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, part of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University.

Friday, April 13- Saturday, April 14, 2012
Duke University, Durham, NC
Free and open to the public

Full schedule and registration information online:
http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/bingham/borders

Featuring notable feminist activists, writers, and scholars:

Meredith Tax, writer and political activist
Patricia McFadden, radical African feminist, sociologist, writer, educator, and publisher

Anissa Helie, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Ann Snitow. Director, Gender Studies Program, Eugene Lang College
Mandy Carter, National Coordinator, Bayard Rustin Centennial 2012 Project, National Black Justice Coalition
Amber Hollibaugh, Interim Director, Queers for Economic Justice Fran Ansley, Professor Emeritus, College of Law, University of Tennessee
Mia Herndon, Executive Director, Third Wave Foundation
Gita Sahgal, Women’s and Human Rights Activist; former head of Amnesty International's Gender Unit
Ynestra King, Writer and Eco-feminist
Jaclyn Friedman, Writer, Activist, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Women, Action & the Media

Co-sponsored by the Dean of Arts and Sciences, Duke University Libraries, Franklin Humanities Institute, the Office of the President, the Office of the Provost, the Program in Women's Studies, African and African American Studies, the Women’s Center, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture. Part of the Future of the Feminist 70s series hosted by the Program in Women’s Studies.