June 16, 2021
Dear We Are Family Classmates,
Reminder - this Saturday at 11:30!
Please join us on Saturday, June 26, 2021, at 11:30 AM EDT, for the next installment of the ’79 Authors & Artists Series, when we present: “Hip-Checked: Naomi Cahn and Erica Rand Talk about Bodies, Laws, and Change”.
Inspired by Erica’s recent book of short essays, The Small Book of Hip Checks: On Queer
Gender, Race, and Writing, two accomplished ’79 authors and professors discuss and
reflect on the intersection of writing, laws and bodies – a discussion with growing
relevance to how words and laws impact societal views touching areas including athletics,
public accommodations, privacy and self-determination, and a fitting conversation for
Pride Month. Erica, who teaches queer and trans studies at Bates College as well as
chairing the Athletics Committee, shares insights developed over her years of teaching,
studying and writing, with Naomi, a law professor, author and senior contributor to the
Forbes leadership channel, recognized for her work on gender equity and economic
inequality.
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Erica Rand teaches queer and trans studies at Bates College, with a focus on race,
sexuality, and gender in contemporary culture. As Chair of the Athletics Committee at
Bates, in 2011, she co-led the creation of the first collegiate transgender inclusion policy to
include recreational sports. In her 40s she became a competitive figure skater—now
hoping to bust open some gender rules soon with her nonbinary pairs partner—and is a
long-time activist, from childhood anti-militarism to anti-apartheid work at Princeton, to
ACT UP to pandemic mutual aid. She serves on the editorial board of Radical Teacher and
coedits the series Writing Matters! at Duke University Press. Besides a few short stints in
queer sex advice, her writing includes the books Barbie’s Queer Accessories, The Ellis Island
Snow Globe, and Red Nails, Black Skates, Gender, Cash, and Pleasure On and Off the Ice.
Naomi Cahn teaches in the areas of feminist jurisprudence, family law, and trusts and
estates at the University of Virginia School of Law. She has written, or co-written, more
than ten books; her first, Confinements, was with classmate Helena Michie. She has written
two books, Red Families v. Blue Families and Marriage Markets
with June Carbone '75. As a senior contributor to the Forbes
Leadership Channel, Cahn writes about gender equity and economic
inequality. Her work has appeared in USA Today, the Washington Post, and
numerous law journals, and it has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker,
and the Wall Street Journal, among other places. Marriage Markets was one of Newsweek’s top 2014 staff picks. Naomi began running at age 50 -- and sometimes places in her age group.
Join us!
Kathryn Reimann and Bruce Petersen, Co-directors ’79 Authors and Artists Series
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