Break the Bias
Tuesday March 8, 2022 is International Women’s Day and this year's theme is “Break the Bias”. Whether deliberate or unconscious, bias makes it difficult for women to move ahead. Knowing that bias exists isn’t enough, action is needed to level the playing field.
Are you in? Will you actively call out gender bias, discrimination, and stereotyping each time you see it?
Cross your arms to show solidarity. Stop by the International Women’s Day display in the Michael Schwartz Library and take a selfie in your best “Strike the IWD 2022” pose and share your #BreakTheBias image, video, resources, presentation, or articles on social media using #IWD2022 #BreakTheBias to encourage people to commit to helping forge an inclusive world.
Women's History Month
The Library is also featuring a Women’s History Month display! The 2022 theme is “Providing Healing, Promoting Hope”. This exhibit features the Cleveland Memory Project Women’s Archive Collection, and women from Cleveland who embodied the theme, including Byrdi Lee, Betty Klaric, Jane Edna Hunter, Bell Greve and more. Ephemera and related books from the Library’s Special Collections are included in the display.
Visit both exhibits, located on the first floor of the Library, through March.
Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
by Michelle Dean
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Noon - 1:00 pm
Free and open to all
Lunch will be served for those attending in-person
Location: In-Person and virtual
Please register here for location and Zoom details and to provide a count for catering
The ten women―Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm―who are the focus of Sharp came from different backgrounds and had vastly divergent political and artistic opinions. But they all made a significant contribution to the cultural and intellectual history of America and ultimately changed the course of the twentieth century.
Mixing biography, literary criticism, and cultural history, Sharp is the exhilarating story of ten brilliant women who used the power of their pens to carve out space for themselves in a world where men wrote the rules. It serves as an engaging introduction to their works, and a testament to how anyone who feels powerless can claim the mantle of writer, and, perhaps, change the world.
Richard Fox will lead the discussion during National Friends of the Library week in October.
Join us for a discussion of shared intellectual and cultural history - and enjoy lunch with Friends of the Library.
Registration link: https://forms.office.com/r/y56a5FxfF6