Join the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies for our annual Walk of the Heroines lecture and spring “Build As We Fight” Mellon grant event with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (they/she) is the author or co-editor of ten books, including The Future Is Disabled, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the transformative justice movement.
 
The talk will take place on Zoom with an in-person live watch party with refreshments on the Portland State Campus (PSU Smith Memorial Student Union – 294). Both events are free and open to the public. CART transcription and ASL interpretation will be provided. Masks required for the in-person event–extras will be available.

 
Thank you to our generous co-sponsors: the School of Social Work, including the Bachelor of Social Work, Master of Social Work, and Child, Youth, and Family Studies programs, Department of Sociology, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University Studies, PSU OHSU School of Public Health, and Institute for Asian Studies, as well as our supporting partners, the Queer Resource Center and Women’s Resource Center.