Talking about Title IX in Missouri
This Thursday and Friday I’ll be talking about Title IX in Missouri, hosted by two wonderful book stores in St. Louis and Columbia, home of the University of Missouri main campus. One of the events will be live-streamed, so you can join us even if you’re not in the Show-Me State!
First up on Thursday, November 3 at 7:00 p.m. is the fabulous Left Bank Books, located in one of the most happening neighborhoods in St. Louis, the Central West End. Register here and pre-order your copy of 37 Words to make sure it’s there for me to sign. If you’re not in the St. Louis area, join in via their Facebook Live page or their YouTube channel.
Then on Friday, November 4 I’ll be returning to Columbia, Mo. for the first time since I was in college there 46 years ago, this time to speak and sign books at the wonderful Skylark Bookshop. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. See more on their website, or check out their Facebook event listing. I’m looking forward to walking around Mizzou before the event. I wonder if The Shack is still there?
The University of Missouri, Columbia also made headlines this week when it agreed to pay $400,000 to settle a lawsuit by two women claiming mishandling of their Title IX complaints alleging stalking and rape by a start basketball player.
Elsewhere
A lawsuit accuses Brett Sokolow, the prominent president of the Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA), and his consulting firm of financial fraud.
Prosecutors charged a former campus physician at Antioch College with 50 counts of sex crimes including 9 counts of rape. Women in economics have taken to social media, especially #EconTwitter, to report ongoing sexual harassment and exploitation by their male colleagues.
Students at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. marched through campus to support a Title IX lawsuit filed by two alumni women around the management of sexual assaults. San Francisco public high school students complained at a city Board of Supervisors hearing that school district administrators have done little in response to their year-long demands for better responses to sexual harassment and assaults. The former director of the Native American Institute at Michigan State University has published a workbook to help guide sexual harassment and assault survivors through the process of filing a Title IX complaint or lawsuit, based on her own experience.
Students at Illinois State University are pushing the administration to do more in response to anti-LGBTQ+ graffiti on Greek houses and a homophobic physical assault on a student in recent weeks.
On the up side
Activists at the University of California, Los Angeles started a petition calling on the university to improve access to rape test kits and services.
Talk about the Northwestern conference?? Photo?
Where you’ll find me
Thursday, November 3, 7 p.m. CT — St. Louis, come on down! Join me at Left Bank Books for a conversation and book signing.
Friday, November 4, 6:30 p.m. CT — Skylark Bookshop in Columbia, Mo. hosts a Title IX discussion with me and, of course, a book signing.
Friday, November 11, 7 p.m. CT — Come hear my conversation with University of Minnesota Professor Emerita Mary Jo Kane at SubText Books in St. Paul, Minn.
Saturday, November 12 — I’m looking forward to three appearances at the National Women’s Studies Association conference in Minneapolis. Join me first at a 9:30 a.m. panel on “Women’s Politics: Finding a Way Out of No Way,” and then at a Feminist Author Showcase at 1:15 p.m. Central Time. At 3 p.m. I’ll be signing books in the Exhibit Hall at the Feminist Book Club booth.
Tuesday, November 15, 12:30 p.m. ET — Join me at Georgia Institute of Technology for a public conversation with Dr. Angel Cabrera about Title IX and equity in higher education. It’s free and open to the public, but register to attend here.
Friday, November 18, 12 noon ET — Get your signed copy of 37 Words straight from my pen when I stop to sign books at Gathering Volumes in Perrysburg, Ohio, near Toledo.
Friday, November 18, 7:00-8:30 p.m. ET — Yo, Clevelanders! Meet me for a public conversation and book signing at Walls of Books, 7783 W. Ridgewood Dr., Parma, Ohio. Plus, we’ll be raffling off a copy of 37 Words to celebrate the end of my month-long book tour.
Tuesday, February 7, 2023 — I’m honored to be invited by Iowa State University’s Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics in Ames, Iowa to lecture about Title IX as the Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics. I’ll speak in the Durham Great Hall of the Memorial Union and sign books in the South Ballroom of the Memorial Union. Both events are free and open to the public.
*** Would you like to set up an in-person or Zoom session with me for your organization or book club? Reach me through my Contact page.***
You can watch my six-minute interview on the Bridge Street morning show on WSYR-TV, the ABC affiliate in Syracuse, N.Y. Or, watch the video of an October 19, 2022 online conversation about Title IX and 37 Words hosted by the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Women in Law; find it here. My interview with the New Books in Women’s History podcast has launched; follow the link. The Nation magazine published an excerpt from my chapter 5, which introduces Title IX’s application in the movement against sexual violence. I published an article in the Washington Post’s Made by History section, this one on “The true mother of Title IX. And why it matters now more than ever.” The Christian Science Monitor included 37 Words in two articles — a cover story on “Title IX at 50” and a sidebar examining the racial gap among women athletes in colleges. Read about the Supreme Court’s history of curtailing Title IX and other civil rights laws in my article in The Washington Post Made by History section. The Washington Monthly gave 37 Words a fine review — check it out. See other previous appearances and media coverage of 37 Words listed here.
Here are links to order your copy of my book 37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination (The New Press, 2022).
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