Women’s Voices in a Time of Authenticity, Intersectionality, Alliance, & Power
Women’s History and More Month at Bakersfield College organizes an array of programs that are open and free to the public. This year WHAM chose to emphasize the positive change women can make in the lives of each other and in broader society. Our series of events will explore and celebrate how women across groups ally to create power for positive change.
All events are free, open to the public, and will be held via live, Zoom webinar this year. Transcription provided.
Please try to contact Erin Miller ten days in advance at [email protected] to arrange accommodations.
Women’s Voices in a Time of Authenticity, Intersectionality, Alliance, & Power, Events
Linda Ronstadt & the Mockingbirds
The Voice of Mexican-American Culture, A Film Screening & Discussion of Linda & the Mockingbirds
Faculty Coordinator: Beth Rodacker, Professor of English for Multilingual Students
Brought to you in collaboration with BC Women’s History and More Committee (WHAM) and with funding and accommodation made possible by the Office of Student Life and the Friends of Women's History, Bakersfield College Foundation.
Director and producer James Keach travels with legendary Mexican American musician Linda Ronstadt, musician Jackson Brown, and several, young Cenzontles in celebration of the rich musical and cultural impact of Mexico on Mexican American music and culture. They travel to Banàmichi in Sonora, Mexico, the birthplace of Ronstadt’s grandfather.
Professor of English for Multilingual Students Elizabeth Rodacker will introduce the documentary, and she and History Professor Erin Miller will facilitate discussion about the film via live Zoom Webinar.
Faculty Coordinator: Elizabeth Rodacker, Professor of English for Multilingual Students
Brought to you in collaboration with the Bakersfield College Student Government Association, the Office of Student Life, and the BC Women’s History and More Committee (WHAM).
“Loss & Longing: The Truth & Beauty of Latina Lives,” features professor and author Angela Morales. Her autobiographical writing captures the daily lives of Latinas living in Los Angeles across generations. Her stories capture the beauty of everyday life and the ways in which equality and rights pervade our experiences and inform her journey.
Alliance & Power in a Time of Adversity, A Panel Discussion
Dr. Jessica Grimes | Edith Mata | Dr. Erica Menchaca | Jenny Grohol | Michelle Oja
Gender Theory | Applying Theory Through Activism | Volunteerism | Power
An inspiring discussion about how women can create power and build alliances into forces for change. Themes of overcoming challenges, building alliances, creating power for women and for society, and civic duty.
Faculty Coordinator and Moderator: Tina Mendoza, History Professor, Taft College & Bakersfield College Brought to you by the BC Women’s History and More Committee (WHAM).
Ain't I a Woman!: A Musical Theatrical Presentation by Core Ensemble
"A chamber music theatre work for actress and trio (cello, piano & percussion) celebrating the lives and times of four significant African American women: ex-slave and fiery abolitionist Sojourner Truth, renowned novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, exuberant folks artist Clementine Hunter and fervent civil rights worker Fannie Lou Hamer. Text is by Kim Hines. The musical score is drawn from the heartfelt spirituals of the Deep South, the urban exuberance of the Jazz Age and concert music by African American composers including Diane Monroe." (A Trailer)
Faculty Coordinator and Moderator: Dr. Paula Parks, English Professor,Bakersfield College Brought to you by Umoja & ASTEP.
Umoja poster featuring Black, female leaders: Fannie Lou Hamer | Clementine Hunter | Zora Neale Hurston | Sojourner Truth
Faculty Coordinator and Moderator: Olivia Garcia, Professor of History and Chairwoman of the KCHCC
An engaging dialogue about Latinas engaged in local business and leadership roles. Themes of achieving success, overcoming challenges, embracing empowerment, and finding the secrets to business collaboration and partnerships.
Cover of the book I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Faculty Coordinator: Tina Mendoza Professor of History at Taft and Bakersfield Colleges Brought to you in collaboration with the BC Office of Student Life, Levan Center for the Humanities Speaker Series, and the BC Women’s History and More Committee (WHAM)
Erika L. Sánchez is a novelist, poet, feminist, and cheerleader for young women everywhere. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling Young Adult novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Knopf, 2017), which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the acclaimed debut poetry collection, Lessons in Expulsion (Graywolf Press, 2017), which the Washington Post called “a fierce, assertive debut.”
Her long-form writing garnered a Pushcart Prize “Editor’s Choice” award, and she is a proud MacDowell Colony Her poems have appeared in many literary journals, including Poets.org, Vinyl Poetry, Guernica, diode, Boston Review, the Paris Review, Gulf Coast, POETRY Magazine, and The New York Times Magazine. Her poetry has also been featured on “Latino USA” on NPR and published in Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poems for the Next Generation (Viking 2015). She has published nonfiction with Al Jazeera, ESPN.com, the Guardian, NBC News, Rolling Stone, Salon, and Cosmopolitan for Latinas, where she was the sex and love advice columnist.
Sánchez has been the recipient of a Princeton Arts Fellowship 2017-2019, a CantoMundo Fellowship, a Fulbright Scholarship to Madrid, a “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize, and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. She was recently appointed the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Chair in the Latin American and Latino Studies Department at DePaul University.
The daughter of undocumented Mexican immigrants, Sánchez grew up in the working class town of Cicero, IL. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude from the University of Illinois at Chicago, then went onto Madrid, Spain on a Fulbright Scholarship. After her scholarship, she moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico where she received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico. She currently lives in Chicago.
Stack of old, leather-bound books with glasses
Women’s Voices in a Time of Authenticity, Intersectionality, Alliance, & Power, A Library Book Display