Goodspeed Lecture Series: Becky Thompson

Denison University’s Goodspeed Lecture Series welcomes Becky Thompson presenting her lecture “Born to Belonging”: Transnational Feminist Alliances.

In her talk, Thompson focuses on recent transnational activism on women’s issues that sees beyond nation and distance to create a new politics of possibilities.

Thompson teaches Sociology at Simmons University. She is a scholar, activist and poet. She is the author of many books including “Teaching with Tenderness,” “Survivors on the Yoga Mat,” “When the Center is on Fire,” “A Promise and a “Way of Life.” Her most recent book is the new “Making Mirrors: Righting/Writing by and for Refugees.”