Photographs
Far left: Dorothy Allison (third from left) and students following Allison's Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration keynote address. Photo by Joseph Mehling, College Photographer. Center: Members of AXIS Dance Company, a mixed-ability dance troupe, performing at the Hopkins Center as part of a Hopkins Center campus residency cosponsored by IDE. Photo by Jack Rowell. Right: Discussions at a Diversity Forum hosted by IDE. Photo by The Dartmouth.
Artwork
Detail from mural produced by Ernesto Cuevas and Dartmouth students as part of Encuentro Latino, a Summer Arts Festival coordinated by the Leslie Center for the Humanities.
Join Professors Annelise Orleck and Martin Favor, Beth Robinson '86, and Jamal Brown '08 for a conversation on gay rights as civil rights and on the repercussions of the anti-gay marriage initiatives and Arkansas gay adoption ban that were passed on election day.
Annelise Orleck is professor of history and chair of Dartmouth's Jewish Studies Program. She specializes in race, ethnicity, and immigration; U.S. political history and radicalism; 20th century women's history; and Jewish history. She is the author of three books: Common Sense and A Little Fire: Women and Working Class Politics in the U.S.; Soviet Jewish Americans; and Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty.
Associate Professor of English J. Martin Favor specializes in 20th century African American and American fiction, cultural studies, and theorizing identity. He is the author of Authentic Blackness: The Folk in the New Negro Renaissance and currently is working on a travel narrative about trans-Atlantic slave trade sites as well as a project on African American post-modernisms.
Beth Robinson '86 chairs the boards of the Vermont Freedom to Marry Task Force and the Vermont Freedom to Marry Action Committee. She is one of the lawyers who represented the plaintiffs in Vermont's groundbreaking freedom to marry case and who spearheaded the lobbying effort that led to the passage of its landmark civil union law. She was an inaugural recipient of Dartmouth's Martin Luther King Jr. Social Justice Award.
Jamal Brown '08 is a legal assistant with Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders. As president of the Gay-Straight Alliance at Dartmouth, he challenged the College's maintenance of its ROTC program despite the military's discriminatory "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, and pioneered the College's first-ever week-long Pride Celebration. In 2008 he was honored in Out magazine's Out 100, which recognizes those who shaped LBGT culture for the year.
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