{"id":5936,"date":"2019-05-22T17:06:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T21:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/?post_type=event&#038;p=5936"},"modified":"2019-09-04T14:34:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T18:34:32","slug":"if-we-forget-ourselves-who-will-be-left-to-remember-us-a-conversation-with-cherrie-moraga","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/if-we-forget-ourselves-who-will-be-left-to-remember-us-a-conversation-with-cherrie-moraga\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIf We Forget Ourselves, Who Will Be Left to Remember Us?\u201d: A Conversation with Cherr\u00ede Moraga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the 2019 Helen Pond McIntyre\u00a0&#8217;48 Lecture, join Cherr\u00ede Moraga, the celebrated activist, writer, and co-editor of the influential anthology<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1981), for a reading and discussion of her new memoir, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Native Country of the Heart <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2019), a love letter to her mother and an intimate portrait of the U.S.-Mexican diaspora. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She will speak to the issue of cultural amnesia in the United States and the recuperation of ancestral memory toward the radicalization of political consciousness and activism for the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button warning radius\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/if-we-forget-ourselves-who-will-be-left-to-remember-us-a-conversation-with-cherrie-moraga-tickets-63112249437\">RSVP TO ATTEND<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Co-sponsored by the following departments and offices at the Graduate Center, CUNY: The Center for the Study of Women and Society, the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC), Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), and the Provost\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p><em>Events are free and open to the public. RSVP is preferred but not required. Seating is available on a first-come, first-seated basis.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrated writer and activist Cherr\u00ede Moraga will speak to the issue of cultural amnesia in the United States and the recuperation of ancestral memory toward the radicalization of political consciousness and activism for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6086,"template":"","tags":[1148,493,1149],"class_list":["post-5936","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cherrie-moraga","tag-memoir","tag-native-country-of-the-heart"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/5936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/5936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}