Please join Portland State’s Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies for an evening with Cherríe Moraga as we celebrate our 50th Anniversary as a program during our annual Walk of the Heroine’s Event. A reading and hosted conversation on the past, present, and future of our feminist and queer lives.
Books will be available onsite for purchase from Always Here Bookstore
Who: Free and Open to the Public
When: Thursday, May 14th, at 5pm
Where: Hoffman Hall, 1833 SW 11th Ave, Portland, OR
About: Cherríe Moraga is an internationally recognized poet, essayist and playwright whose professional life began in 1981 with her co-editorship of the groundbreaking feminist anthology, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. The author of several collections of her own writings, including: A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness, Loving in The War Years, The Last Generation and Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood. Moraga is the recipient of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship for Literature and the American Studies Association Lifetime Achievement Award, among numerous other honors. As a dramatist, her awards include an NEA, two Fund for New American Plays Awards, and the PEN West Award. In 2017, Moraga’s most recent play, Mathematics of Love, premiered at Brava Theater Center in San Francisco. In the same year, she began her tenure as a Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where with her partner, visual artist Celia Herrera Rodriguez, she instituted Las Maestras Center for Xicane Indigenous Thought, Art, and Social Praxis. Her most recent memoir, Native Country of the Heart, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2019. In 2023, Haymarket Books published updated anniversary editions of Waiting in the Wings and Loving in the War Years. In 2024, Moraga became a Distinguished Professor Emerita In English, UC Santa Barbara.
This event was made possible by our generous co-sponsors at PSU:
OHSU/PSU School of Public Health
Office of the President
Department of Chicanx/Latinx Studies
Department of English
Department of History
Department of Sociology
Honors College
This event is wheelchair accessible. To request a further reasonable accommodation or discuss your needs, contact wgss@pdx.edu.