FLY Girls Book Panel

Join us in the Pitt Building (Fri 11 Oct, 3:30-5:30pm) for a panel and Q&A with the authors of “A FLY Girl’s Guide to University: Being a woman of colour at Cambridge and other institutions of power and elitism”. The book contains a collection of memoirs, essays, poetry and prose that consider the experiences of women of colour at the University for both visibility and liberation.

 "The purpose of our book is simple: we believe that our lives, our experiences, and our voices matter, especially in a place of power, pervasive whiteness and exclusivity. Our voices not only deserve to be heard but must be, because the ‘Cambridge experience’ of a middle-class, white, cisgendered, able-bodied man is not the only one. Ours cannot be silenced.”

 The event is co-hosted by FLY, WomCam and the BME Campaign, and sponsored by lgbtQ+@cam, Equality and Diversity, the Faculty of History, and the Department of Sociology. The event will be followed by a drinks reception and copies of the book will be available for purchase. Find out more about the book and the authors at: https://www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/fly-girls-book-panel