Relive the incredible first decade of the modern feminist movement through the voices of the women who built it.

In-person registration for this event has sold out, but livestream tickets are still available. A limited number of standby tickets will be available on the night of the event.

Award-winning journalist Clara Bingham’s new book, The Movement, is the first oral history of the decade that built the modern feminist movement. The book captures the years 1963–73 in the voices of the women at the forefront, from Bella Abzug to Shirley Chisholm, Gloria Steinem, the Janes, and much more. It gives center stage to the unsung heroes of the fight for gender equality and highlights the vital role played by activists of color.

Bingham discusses with journalist Farai Chideya the intimate inside story of what it felt like to be at the forefront of the modern feminist crusade, when women rejected thousands of years of custom and demanded the freedom to be who they wanted and needed to be.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Clara Bingham is an award-winning journalist and the author of Witness to the Revolution, Women on the Hill, and the cowriter of Class Action. A former Washington, D.C., correspondent for Newsweek, her writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, The Guardian, and The Daily Beast, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Farai Chideya is an independent journalist who created the now-completed run of Our Body Politic, a nationally syndicated public radio show, podcast and insights brand centering Black women and all women of color. The podcast produced the documentary January 6: An American Story, about BIPOC investigators on the January 6th Committee. She's the author of six books, the most recent of which is The Episodic Career: How to Thrive at Work in the Age of Disruption. Chideya has covered every Presidential election from 1996 on; worked for FivethirtyEight, CNN, ABC, and NPR; and appeared on numerous other networks. Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, she graduated from Harvard University and lives in Brooklyn, New York and Washington, D.C.

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Clara Bingham © Henry Michaelis
Courtesy Farai Chideya