NEWS RELEASE

For Immediate Release – February 20, 2019

Women’s History Month at Nassau Community College
March 4 - March 25

Garden City, NY – During Women’s History Month 2019, Nassau Community College offers an interesting and topical series of programs, as listed below.

March 4
A Reading by Carmen Maria Machado 
11:00 a.m., CCB (College Center Building), Room 252-253
Machado’s debut short-story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize, among other awards. In 2018, The New York Times listed Her Body and Other Parties as one of “15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21^st century.”

March 6
Racial and Social Justice with Ericka Hart 
2:00 p.m., CCB 252-253
Ericka Hart is a sexuality educator, activist, performer and breast cancer survivor. She posits visibility as a sociopolitical stance, one vital to any radically inclusive progressive movement toward equity.

March 12
Know Your Rights: Title IX and Campus Sexual Assault 
NCC Alumna Jaslin Kaur
8:30 a.m. and 10:00 a.m., CCB 252-253
A senior at Hunter College, Kaur is a policy and advocacy organizer at Know Your IX, where she works to defend Title IX rights for survivors of campus sexual assault.

March 13
HoneyPot 
11:00 a.m. and again at 2:00 p.m., CCB 252-253
Honey is a singer and actor at the crossroads of her life when, at the casting for the biggest movie role of her career, she is asked by the producer to do something she never imagined. Will she or won’t she? Filmmaker, writer, actress and singer Renée Wilson has been working in film, television and theatre for 20 years. She is best known for her work in the Academy Award-winning film Ray.
Written and performed by Renée Wilson

March 25
Robin Dembroff
Reconceiving Transgender 
11:00 a.m., CCB 252-253
Dembroff is a professor in the philosophy department at Yale University, with primary areas of research in feminist philosophy and metaphysics. Prof. Dembroff’s particular emphasis is on social construction and the relationship between social categories, concepts and language.

For more information about these events, which are free, open to the public and accessible to the disabled, contact sara.hosey@ncc.edu.

Media Contact: Kate Murray 516.572.0611; kathleen.murray@ncc.edu
 ncc.edu/newsreleases

About Nassau Community College
Nassau Community College is an institution where more than 19,000 full-time, part-time, Workforce Development and continuing education students start and continue their successful journey through higher education. More than 80 fields of study are offered on a 225-acre campus located in the center of Long Island. As the largest single-campus two-year college in New York State, Nassau Community College maintains a national reputation for excellence. For more information, visit www.ncc.edu.

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