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Writer and activist Katha Pollitt will present Lafayette’s Women’s History Month keynote address, entitled “Are We There Yet? Why Women Aren’t Equal Even If We Think We Are,” 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 28 in Oechsle Hall room 224. The event is free and open to the public.
A columnist for The Nation, Pollitt has also written essays for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Harper’s, Mirabella, Ms., Glamour, Mother Jones, and The New York Times. She has appeared on NPR’s Fresh Air and All Things Considered, Charlie Rose, The McLaughlin Group, CNN, Dateline NBC, and BBC.
Pollitt is author of Virginity or Death! And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time, Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism, and Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture. She also has published a book of poetry called Antarctic Traveller.
Pollitt’s address and other Women’s History Month events are sponsored by the Women’s Studies program, Office of Intercultural Development, Lafayette Activities Forum, Office of Student Life, Association of Lafayette Feminists, Dean of Studies, American Studies department, anthropology and sociology department, College Writing Program, English department, economics and business department, Policy Studies program, and Counseling Center.
For more information about Lafayette’s Women’s History Month celebration, contact Carolynn Van Dyke, March Professor of English and coordinator of Women’s Studies.