Mab Segrest

Mab Segrest is a Professor Emeritus of Gender and Women's Studies at Connecticut College 

About

Mab Segrest has been active in social justice movements in the US South and nationally for forty years. A new edition of her classic Memoir of a Race Traitor was released in 2019 and her latest book Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the MIlledgeville Asylum in 2020.  Segrest's work includes organizing against Klan and neo-Nazi movements in North Carolina in the 1990s, working for the World Council of Churches' Urban Rural Mission in the 1990s, and serving as Fuller-Maathai Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Connecticut College from 2002 to 2014.  She currently lives in Durham, NC where she is working with the NC Anti-Racist Research Collaborative to track and counter militia movements in the state.  Her essay Go There Ready for War:  MIlitia Organizing in NC in the Wake of the Jan 6 Insurrection was published in Scalawag. 

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Agenda

Session 9
Oct
19
Bridging the Urban-Rural Divide: Unveiling our interdependence to transform our systems
Rural and urban communities feel worlds apart, yet are profoundly interdependent. From the farms to the corner store, the policing to the prisons, the water source to the tap, the systems we rely on cross the boundaries between rural and urban, especially our man-made boundaries of race, politics, and citizenship. But fear and misinformation have turned these boundaries into barriers, and divided we fall. Embracing our interdependence is crucial for the path towards equitable and sustainable systems of food, water, public safety, energy, public health, and much more. What can we learn from...