FERRUM, VA, March 10, 2025 – On Wednesday, March 12, Ferrum College will present “‘You Don’t Own Me’: What the US Women’s and Gay Liberation Movements Were All About” for this week’s Inquiring Minds program.
The Inquiring Minds series offers lively, informal presentations and activities on various interesting topics for the entire community. Stanley Library at Ferrum College presents the series on most Wednesdays during the academic year, in the LEaP Studio on the library’s main floor during the campus’s community hour from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Dr. Nicole Greer Golda, associate professor of history and chair of the School of Arts and Humanities, will discuss the transformative decades of the 1960s and 1970s, a time when Women’s Liberation and Gay Liberation built on the Civil Rights and Anti-War Movements to reshape society and redefine the meaning of freedom, privacy, and bodily autonomy. This Inquiring Minds program will use music, video clips, and images to explore the bold demands and lasting legacy of events such as the Women’s Strike for Peace, the Stonewall Riots, the Miss America pageant protest, and “Sip-Ins.”
This Inquiring Minds event is sponsored by the Boone Honors Program and connected to an Honors class on The Sixties, taught by Dr. Katherine Grimes this semester. The course was developed by Faculty Emerita Karen Duddy, who also founded the Inquiring Minds series.
