The Fraser Center for Workplace Issues' Lecture Series presents:
Refusal: Black Women Workers and the Practice of Freedom
By Keona Ervin, Bowdoin College

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025, 4:00PM-6:00PM
Walter Reuther Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs
5401 Cass Ave., Detroit MI 48202
2nd Floor Conference Room (#200)

Keona K. Ervin is Associate Director and Program Coordinator of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Bowdoin College. Ervin is is the author of the award-winning book, Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis (2017). She has published articles and reviews in International Labor and Working-Class History, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History, New Labor Forum, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Ervin is currently writing a history of Black women's labor struggles that will be published by Verso Books and a history of the intersections of Black radical feminist politics and labor-leftist coalitions and solidarity movements in the US since the 1970s.

This event is free and open to the public; refreshments to be served.

This event is brought to you by Labor@Wayne, the Center for Gender and Sexuality, the Department of African American Studies, the Fraser Center for Workplace Issues, the Walter P Reuther Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, and the Department of History