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Our Girl Tuesday: An Unfurling for Dr. Margaret T.G. Burroughs

November 13, 2024 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Book cover with collage of images of Dr. Margaret T. Burroughs and the following text: Our Girl Tuesday An Unfurling for Dr. Margaret T.G. Burroughs
Our Girl Tuesday book cover. Courtesy of Haymarket Books.

Art is a powerful catalyst for change. In all its forms, art has a unique capacity to build awareness, understanding, and solidarity for ideas and movements.

Chicago History Museum presents coauthors and coeditors Tempestt Hazel, Skyla S. Hearn, and Sarah Ross in discussion about the publication Our Girl Tuesday: An Unfurling for Dr. Margaret T.G Burroughs (2023), the influence and impact of Dr. Burroughs, and the power of memory, remembrance, activism, and archives.

Louisiana-born and Chicago-raised artist, activist, educator, historian, and institution builder Dr. Margaret T.G. Burroughs (1915–2010) poured her interconnected and multimodal advocacy into her praxis of care, love, and visions of freedom for Black people.

Our Girl Tuesday presents a collection of essays, interviews, poetry, art and archives that honor and reflect the immense influence Dr. Burroughs had on the political and cultural life of Chicago and the lives of people she met. The contributors to the Zine include artists, poets, writers, educators, activists, curators, and scholars who pulled from existing archives, gathered new materials, and created new works to be entered into the living archive of Dr. Burroughs.

This collection iterates the impact of Dr. Burroughs and her politics of culture, care, freedom, and love for Black people. A special section of the publication includes an unfurling, a social practice introduced to this project by Skyla Hearn whereby people, as liberatory memory workers, pull materials from existing archives and share what those materials mean to them.

Registration is required for this free event.

Details

Details

Date:
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Time:
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Event Category:

Accessibility

Free Admission

Wheelchair Accessible

Organizer

Chicago History Museum
Phone:
312 642 4600
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Region
North Side
Audience
Life-long Learners, Scholars
Accessibility
Free Admission, Wheelchair Accessible
Event Topics
Activism, Racial Identity, Social Justice, Women Artists

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Location

Chicago History Museum
1601 N. Clark St.
Chicago, IL 60614
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