Passing Beyond Passing

Happy Birthday to Anita Hemmings, Vassar College’s first black graduate more than 40 years before the college opened its doors to African Americans. Read more about this courageous woman at the link below. http://pages.vassar.edu//the-gilded-years-/anita-hemmings/

Thanks to everyone who made this a great conference. We appreciate everyone’s efforts.

Behold: Some of the beautiful and brilliant panelists from our conference: Quiet As It’s Kept: Passing Subjects, Contested Identities. Thank you to everyone who helped make the conference a success including John Mihaly, Gladwyn Lopez, Mary-Kay Lombino and The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Geri Cosenza, Larry Hertz, Walter Effron (Three Arts Bookstore), Eve Dunbar, Tyrone Simpson, Camryn Casey and all our department and program sponsors. My colleague Hiram Perez and I couldn’t have done it without the leadership of President Elizabeth Bradley who set the institutional tone. Also, thank you to Jami Floyd and All Things Considered for the interview, which spread the word. It takes a village. One Love!

Here are some visuals from yesterday’s panel discussion, Quiet As It’s Kept: Celebrity, Gossip and Passing