Past Events

November 2023
"'June was the catalyst': June Jordan, the Sisterhood, and Literary Activism," Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival, Jackson State University.

Reading and Book Celebration for students, staff, and faculty of the Clark Honors College, University of Oregon.

"Celebrating 40 Years of HBW & Black Women's Writing," a conversation with Ayesha Hardison, Director of The History of Black Writing, and Angelyn Mitchell and Danille Taylor, editors of The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature.

January 2024
"Diminishing Returns and Insurgent Forces: Black Feminism in The Academy," Panel, “Black Literary Study after the 1980s,” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Roundtable Participant, "Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory  and Black Feminist Curation," Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Reading, discussion, and book signing with Evie Shockley, Harriet’s Bookshop, Philadelphia, PA.

Reading, discussion with Faith Barter, Q & A, and book signing, Oregon Humanities Center, Capitello Wines, Eugene, OR.

February 2024
Reading, discussion, and book signing with Mat Johnson, Powell’s City of Books, Portland, OR.

Panel discussion with Farah Griffin, Margo Jefferson, and Patricia Spears Jones, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER), Columbia University, New York, NY.

Reading, discussion, and book signing with Tara Betts, Seminary Coop Bookstore, Chicago, IL.

March 2024
"Reading and Discussion: Engaging The Sisterhood," University of Georgia. Athens, GA.

“Black Women's Collectives,” panel, discussion, and book signing with Ethel Morgan Smith and Daryl Cumber Dance, Virginia Festival of the Book. Charlottesville, VA.

Public Conversation about The Sisterhood with Autumn Womack , Intersections Working Group, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

April 2024
Faculty Talk: Courtney Thorsson and The Sisterhood, reading and discussion moderated by Ericka Warren and sponsored by the UO Alumni Association, Clark Honors College, and the UO Black Alumni Network. Online.

“Pure Imagination: How Art Sparks Change,” panel, discussion, and book signing with Rosa Lowinger, Bianca Bosker, and Ruha Benjamin, moderated by Josh Kun and presented by Getty PST Art. Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, University of Southern California.

“Feminist Collective/s” roundtable with Demita Frazier and Pascale Solages, Feminisms Unbound Series, The Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality, hosted by MIT in collaboration with Tufts and Brandeis. Online.

September 2024
Moderator, "Intimate Inheritance and Uses of Poetry" panel with Anthony Reed, Matt Sandler, and Laura Vrana, Furious Flower IV, James Madison University.

February 2025
Guest Speaker, 2025 Faculty-Graduate Seminar "The Black 1980s: Promises of Inclusion, Perils of Access," Princeton University, February 2025.