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Activist, candidate Brianna Wu kicks off series
NEWBURYPORT – The Paula Estey Gallery of Art and Activism is launching its first workshop series, “Civil Disobedience for Women and Their Allies,” opening with congressional candidate Brianna Wu onwww.newburyportnews.com
NEWBURYPORT – The Paula Estey Gallery of Art and Activism is launching its first workshop series, “Civil Disobedience for Women and Their Allies,” opening with congressional candidate Brianna Wu on Monday.
Wu, who recently announced she is running for the 8th Congressional District seat held by Stephen Lynch, is featured in the first in a four-week series of conversations on Monday nights from 6:30 to 8:30 through April 15. Wu has led efforts to call out violence against women within the online gaming community.
Joining her will be Pam Berman, president of the Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus. Berman, a prominent advocate for gender equality, will talk about the barriers keeping women out of public life and her organization’s efforts to eradicate these.
“Women are in need of a good revolution,” said Dawne Shand, who is leading the workshop. “Some of the region’s most interesting change makers and rule breakers will talk about the structure of power and our obligations as citizens to questioning these cultural norms, laws and unspoken rules.”
On April 1, poet and activist Martha Collins will talk about engaging creatively with social causes. Collins is the author of a series of groundbreaking poetics on the most complex moments in American history, including: “Blue Front,” which investigates her father’s childhood witness of a lynching; and “White Papers,” her dangerous mediations on whiteness as a racial profile.
Collins is a longtime leader within The William Joiner Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences.
On April 8, Heidi Lilley, of Laconia, New Hampshire, is scheduled for a conversation about the rules governing women’s bodies and her civil disobedience arrest that has taken her cause to the New Hampshire Supreme Court. Lori Day, president of the board of directors for the Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center, will talk about the rights of women and the fight against laws that undermine these.
On April 15, Shand, a writer whose work was most recently published in the fall/winter edition of The Georgia Review, will lead a writing workshop on creating your own personal manifesto for civil disobedience.
The four-week course costs $150 or $40 per session. Tickets are available through Brown Paper Tickets at https://bit.ly/2OcYzwY
The Paula Estey Gallery is located at 3 Harris St. For information, contact Estey at 978-376-4746 or paula.estey@yahoo.com.
Is this a joke?
Brianna Wu is the LAST person who is going to risk fines or imprisonment for personal ideals. Doing that requires integrity and conviction, words he can't spell, much less live up to.
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