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This is no time for any of us to stay on the sidelines. Whether you're a woman of color finding your voice at a PWI or an aspiring ally, Morgan Jerkins makes a convincing case for your stake in bringing about racial and gender equity. And she's here to help you claim it. Count on Jerkins to inspire you to do more than stand by, torn between hoping for the best and fearing the worst.

Join us for this lecture and Q&A followed by a reception and book signing.

As both narrator and subject of the essays in her collection, This Will Be My Undoing - Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America, Jerkins will fortify you for your own truth-telling and prepare you to hold space for others'. She is starting much-needed conversations - about the stigma of therapy, her complex relationship with her own physical body, the pain of dating when men say they don’t “see color,” the paradox of black female sexuality, and disabled black women in the context of the “Black Girl Magic” movement – and inviting us to continue them.

Roxane Gay calls Morgan Jerkins “a writer to be reckoned with.” She is senior editor at ZORA and former associate editor at Catapult. Her forthcoming book, Wandering In Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots, will be published in May of 2020 by HarperCollins. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, Vogue, the New York Times, The Atlantic, Elle, Rolling Stone, Lenny, and BuzzFeed, among many others.

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Thank you to all of the UVA offices whose support makes this event possible!

Office for Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights (EOCR)
Carter G. Woodson Institute
Department of English
Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality
School of Nursing
Virginia Center for the Book

Complimentary parking for this event will be available in the Central Grounds Parking Garage. Please enter this coupon code at the payment station: E15301CD.

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