No backpacks or large bags/purses are allowed. Please arrive early to ensure entry prior to event start time.No outside food or drink. All entrants to public events may be subject to wanding and/or pat-down and bag searches upon each entry to the facility. And it took another intervention, this time staged by one of her homegirls, to turn Brittney into the fierce feminist she is today. The top tier of the Main Theater floor is wheelchair accessible.Please be advised that firearms or weapons of any kind are not permitted in Liberty Hall. When Cooper learned of her grandmother’s eloquent rage about love, sex, and marriage in an epic and hilarious front-porch confrontation, her life was changed. Event is in the Main Theater with balcony and floor seating. Cooper’s scholarly research interrogates the manner in which public Black women have theorized racial identity and gender politics, and the methods they used to operationalize those theories for the uplift of Black communities.ĭoors open 1 hour prior to showtime.Event RSVP guarantees entry up to event start time, after then, any persons waiting for seating will be admitted to any open seat. Cooper has published several book chapters and articles on representations of Black women in popular culture, including a piece on the representation of the 'baby-mama' figure in Hip-Hop music and film, the feminist implications of Janet Jackson's 2004 Super Bowl mishap, and the importance of Michelle Obama in the tradition of Black female leadership.

An Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University, Dr.

Her critique is sharp, her love of Black people and Black culture is deep, and she will make you laugh out loud.Brittney Cooper“Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower”September 12, 20197:30pm, Liberty HallBrittney Cooper is a writer, teacher, public speaker, and the author of 'Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower' (2018).

'Cooper may be the boldest young feminist writing today. Her critique is sharp, her love of Black people and Black culture is deep, and she will make you laugh out loud.' - Michael Eric Dyson 'I was waiting for an author who wouldn't forget, ignore, or erase us black girls as they told their own story.I was waiting and she has come-in Brittney Cooper.' - Melissa Harris Perry This audiobook argues that ultimately feminism, friendship, and faith in one's own superpowers are all we really need to turn things right side up again. In Brittney Cooper's world, neither mean girls nor fuckboys ever win. When Cooper learned of her grandmother's eloquent rage about love, sex, and marriage in an epic and hilarious front-porch confrontation, her life was changed. It reminds women that they don't have to settle for less. It's what makes Michelle Obama an icon.Įloquent rage keeps us all honest and accountable. When Cooper learned of her grandmothers eloquent rage about love, sex, and marriage in an epic and hilarious front-porch confrontation, her life was changed. This explains why the author of Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower was aboil last week over the. It's what makes Beyoncé's girl power anthems resonate so hard. I do some of my best writing when I’m angry, says Brittney Cooper. Black women's eloquent rage is what makes Serena Williams such a powerful tennis player. But Cooper shows us that there is more to the story than that. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper reminds us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting.įar too often, Black women's anger has been caricatured into an ugly and destructive force that threatens the civility and social fabric of American democracy. So what if it's true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. With searing honesty, intimacy and humor too, America's leading young black feminist celebrates the power of rage in this piercing new audiobook. Listeners learn how rage, aimed with fine-tuned focus and purpose, can help build up black women's lives and society overall.' - AudioFile Magazine She blends candor and humor as she roots out toxic behaviors and beliefs we use in America to tear ourselves and each other down, while also offering paths forward. '.Cooper delivers a frank, conversational-style examination of the importance of black female friendships, respectability politics, and harmful stereotypes, among other topics.

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