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Poetry Makes Things Happen: Feminists Writing for Social Change
Thursday, March 24, 2022
9:00 am to 10:15 am
In Louisville, KY, the city where Breonna Taylor was killed, the Kentucky Foundation for Women (KFW) resides and promotes the importance of social change through feminist expression. In 2020 alone, KFW granted $301,960 to KY artists. Panelists will share their funded projects that includes giving voice to BIPOC women, telling the stories of incarcerated women, and exploring what it means to be queer in Appalachia—and will show why more foundations like KFW are essential, especially now.
Participants
Sharon LaRue, executive director of the Kentucky Foundation for Women, is proud to lead an organization that honors the feminist perspective of collective strength and recognizes that art is a powerful catalyst for transformational change. She invites artists to claim their power to act!
Savannah Sipple is the author of WWJD & Other Poems. A professor, mentor, and editor, she is also the recipient of grants from The Barbara Deming Fund/Money for Women and the Kentucky Foundation for Women.
Mariam I. Williams is a writer, dancer, and educator who received her first grant in 2008 from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. In 2019, she founded the Black Womanhood Re-Affirmation Project to reaffirm the resilience of Black women through literature, writing, and dance.
DaMaris B. Hill, PhD, is a writer. Her books include Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood, A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing, The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage, Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland, and \Vi-zə-bəl\ \Teks-chərs\.
Kelly Moffett is an associate professor at Northern Kentucky University. She has three poetry collections, one chapbook, and another collection on its way. She is the recipient of five Kentucky Foundation for Women grants as well as a Fulbright Grant. www.kellymoffett.com
