As New York state celebrates 100 years of women's suffrage, "At the Crossroads: Activating the Intersection of Art and Justice" announces its second event of the 2017-2018 season, "And, Ain't I a Woman: A Long Table Conversation and Installation," inspired by the fierce legacy of Sojourner Truth. Sojourner Truth was born a slave in New York in 1797, twenty-one years after women lost the right to vote in the state in 1776. She was to become an outspoken advocate for abolition as well as civil and women's rights. More than a century before Kimberlé Crenshaw introduced the concept of intersectionality to feminist theory in the 1980s, Sojourner Truth challenged sexist + racist notions with her extemporaneous "And, Ain't I a Woman" speech in 1851 at the National Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio.

[source: Facebook, 2017-Dec-4]