Online event to mark International Women's Day

24 Feb 2023

The Department of Sociology & Criminology and Women's Studies, University College Cork are delighted to celebrate International Women's Day wth a book launch of a new book by Dr Red Washburn IRISH WOMEN’S PRISON WRITING. MOTHER IRELAND’S REBELS 1960s-2010s

Speakers

Red Washburn is Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at CUNY Kingsborough. They also teach Women’s and Gender Studies at Brooklyn College as well as are Affiliate Faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies at the Graduate Center. They are the co-editor of Sinister Wisdom’s Dump Trump: Legacies of Resistance, 45 Years: A Tribute to Lesbian Herstory Archives, and Trans/Feminisms. Finishing Line Press published their poetry collections Crestview Tree Woman and Birch Philosopher X. They are co-editing WSQ’s issue Nonbinary (forthcoming)

Roseleen Walsh is the author of a poetry collection, Poems and Monologues, and short stories, Face to Face. She has written approximately 40 plays, 37 of which were produced in Belfast, Derry, Armagh, and Dublin by Commedagh Productions and Irish Youth Theatre. Political Drama, which features 23 political plays, is available in universities and libraries across the United States. She is currently writing a book, My Internment, about her prison experience.

Theresa O'Keefe is a lecturer in Sociology and Criminology at University College Cork. She writes on gender relations, state violence and feminist organising in divided societies. Her book, Feminist Identity Development and Activism in Revolutionary Movements, charts the development of republican feminism in Northern/Ireland .

The event will be chaired by Dr Chiara Bonfiglioli, of UCC Women's Studies.