The fourth and final virtual event in the Fall 2020 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series: At Home offers a timely look at race and culture in America.
Triangle Breathing: A Conversation with Hortense Spillers and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, moderated by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
In a special session occuring just one week after Election Day, Hortense Spillers, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon will think through the implications of the election results and reflect upon the racial awakening sparked by the murder of George Floyd. Topics will include the necessity for police reform, the Black Lives Matter movement, and how race relations in the U.S. have become a flash point for global attention. These leading literary minds will also discuss how “law and order” can be assured in a society of such surprising lawlessness.
Hortense Spillers is considered a foundational figure in Black feminist scholarship and is the inspiration behind Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ poetic work “Spill.” This intriguing link between the scholars was the inspiration for bringing them together for this special intimate session, in which they will be joined by moderator and poet Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon.
Don’t miss this topical conversation as we close out our series of bringing renowned writers to the Cornell community to share their work from the intimacy of their homes to ours.
