Black Feminist Book Club

Gwendolyn VanSant, founder and executive director of Multicultural BRIDGE, will guide a community conversation on Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin. The Black Feminist Book Club brings together community members to read and discuss, inspired by Black feminist texts. Gwendolyn VanSant hosts this next iteration of the book club in Mass MoCA's Research & Development Store. The group will explore the selected text together, view special exhibitions and community spaces related to the books, and be introduced to organizations that continue the work of historical Black feminists. The Mass MoCA iteration of the Black Feminist Book Club is hosted by Multicultural BRIDGE and Gwendolyn VanSant. It is recommended to read the texts before for discussion, but you are welcome to join and listen in. Books can no longer be shipped in advance. RSVPs are full but drop-ins are encouraged. Black Feminist Book Club Dates: Saturday, November 30, 2024, We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance, Kellie Carter Jackson Thursday, February 13, 2025, Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin Thursday, April 10, 2025, Ordinary Notes, Christina Sharpe Saturday, July 19, 2025, Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, Alexis Pauline Gumbs Ruha Benjamin is the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, Founding Director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab and award-winning author of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019), Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want (2022) and Imagination: A Manifesto (2024), among many other publications. Ruha is an internationally recognized scholar and speaker whose work examines the relationship between innovation and inequity, knowledge and power, health and justice. She earned her BA in Sociology and Anthropology from Spelman College, MA and PhD in Sociology from UC Berkeley and postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA's Institute for Society & Genetics and Harvard's Science, Technology & Society Program. Ruha is the recipient fellowships and awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar Award and President's Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton. Get