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Buffalo State’s Women and Gender Studies Interdisciplinary Unit is excited to announce that Brittney Cooper, assistant professor of women and gender studies and Africana studies at Rutgers University, will present the keynote address "#SayHerName: Police Violence against Black Women and Black Women's Inclusion in Social Movements," on Thursday, March 10, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Classroom Building C122.

In celebration of Women’s History Month, Cooper’s talk will turn a public eye toward police violence against black women and black women's contributions to related movements for social change. A short reception will follow her talk, and light refreshments will be offered. This event is free and open to the public.

Cooper is a prominent scholar of black feminist thought as well as a co-founder of the Crunk Feminist Collective and a writer for the collective’s insightful and influential activist blog. She also writes a weekly column on race and gender politics for the critical arts and culture magazine Salon, and she has regularly written about the Movement for Black Lives, more widely known as #BlackLivesMatter.

Cooper’s scholarly work centers on the black intellectual tradition, racial justice, hip-hop generation feminism, and race and gender representation in popular culture. Her forthcoming book, Race Women: Gender and the Making of a Black Public Intellectual Tradition (University of Illinois Press), examines the long history of black women’s thought leadership in the United States, with a view toward reinvigorating contemporary scholarly and popular conversations about black feminism.

For further information, please visit the event's Facebook page or contact Meg Knowles, associate professor of communication and coordinator of women and gender studies.