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Guest Speaker Harry Szabo: Labor is Southern, Feminist, and Intersectional (and on this campus!)

Date:
Friday, November 10, 2023
Time:
4 - 5:30 p.m.
Location:

Logan Gallery (Bank Building)

Add to Your Calendar 11/10/2023 16:00:00 11/10/2023 17:30:00 America/New_York Guest Speaker Harry Szabo: Labor is Southern, Feminist, and Intersectional (and on this campus!)

Guest speaker Harry Szabo is a nonbinary educator, writer and organizer from Richmond, Virginia. They cofounded VCU’s chapter of United Campus Workers of VA in 2020 and have served as president of UCWVA since 2022. 

Logan Gallery (Bank Building)

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The conventional image of the labor union is that of white men organizing industrial workplaces in the Northeast. This false history of labor ignores the long struggle of women and Southerners in multiracial coalition. This talk will discuss the feminist intersectional history of Southern labor organizing, discuss modern organizing methods and how they fit into that history, and lay out a way forward for college and university campus workers to participate in the revival of the labor movement in America, with a focus on the work of United Campus Workers of Virginia. 

Harry Szabo is a nonbinary educator, writer and organizer from Richmond, Virginia. They cofounded VCU’s chapter of United Campus Workers of VA in 2020 and have served as president of UCWVA since 2022. They are a term faculty member in Virginia Commonwealth University’s general education program. 

This event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Gender and Women's Studies Concentration.