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2019 MLK Day (Employee Signup) has ended
MLK Day Registration for employees is open until Monday, January 14 at 9:00 am.
MLK Day offers:
The Keynote Address open to the entire community from 8:15 am to 10:00 am
Morning workshops from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm
Lunchtime conversations in Wetherell from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Afternoon workshops from 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Adult Only workshops from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm and from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm

You may register to take attendance/chaperone at a student workshop.  Each workshop has a specific limited number of adults needed and is color coded RED.  Note: the time listed in SCHED is 15 minutes prior to start of a session.  You are expected to be on time.  You must also accept a download of the attendance app which will be sent to you from SCHED to your mobile device and bring that device to use to take attendance.  We are not using paper attendance sheets.

You may register to attend selected workshops as an observer.  These have a specific number of seats available for each workshop and are color coded BLUE.

You may also register for any of 3 adult only workshops, color coded BLUE.

The Keynote Address and the table discussions in Wetherell do not require any registration and are color coded GREEN.

If a workshop is marked FULL, please make another selection.  Workshop availability is based on room capacities and other considerations. There is no waitlist and adults will not be added if the workshop is full.
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Friday, January 18 • 1:15pm - 3:00pm
Chaperone/Attendance Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free: Understanding Intersectionality with/through Fannie Lou Hamer FULL

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In 1989, Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term intersectionality to describe the particular ways that Black women’s experiences can’t be attributed to Blackness or womanhood.  She later says that it “is a lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where it interlocks and intersects.”  In this workshop, we’ll study one of Martin Luther King’s contemporaries, Fannie Lou Hamer, to further understand intersectionality.  Hamer cofounded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and Martin Luther King remarked that her testimony at the 1964 Democratic National Convention “educated a nation.”  Using Hamer’s songs and speeches (we will do some singing!), we’ll discuss her experiences of involuntary sterilization, police intimidation, an abusive sharecropping system, and frustration with Black patriarchal leadership.
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Courtney Marshall

Phillips Exeter Academy
Courtney Marshall is a Black feminist, teacher and writer. She is an Instructor in English at Phillips Exeter Academy, Dorm Head of Kirtland House. She is currently writing a book about Black Women’s Narratives of Fatness and Fitness.

Friday January 18, 2019 1:15pm - 3:00pm EST
4th Fl. Library
  Attendance/Chaperone Needed, Afternoon Session

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