Bitter Flower – Race, Gender, and the Suffrage Movement

When: 10/22/2020 @ 12:00PM-1:15PM Where: Zoom

Join us for a screening and conversation about Bitter Flower, a play that explores the relationship between two major figures of the suffrage movement, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Jane Addams. The powerful dialogue examines the racism of the white suffrage movement and the undervalued work of Black suffragists. A post-screening conversation on past and present intersectional feminism will follow.

Program:

Screening of Bitter Flower (20min), a play by Jennifer Natalya Fink

Post-screening conversation with (45min)

Jennifer Natalya Fink, Author and English Professor

Marcia Chatelain, History Professor

Victoria Nourse, Law Professor

More about the play:

Bitter Flower was written by Jennifer Natalya Fink and directed by Lawrence Carlisle III and Ryan Pagels.

The play was part of the Burning Coal Theatre’s 19th Amendment Project , a collection of short plays written by some of the most accomplished women and/or non-binary playwrights writing on the passage of the 19th Amendment 100 years ago and its ongoing impact.

Acknowledgments: We thank the Gilbert Theatre and the Burning Coal Theatre Company for allowing this screening to take place.