May Day was a Pembroke College tradition that included selecting a May Queen. And perhaps spring chickens? (See bottom left.) Pembroke was the women’s college in Brown. Image from the 1956 Pembroke yearbook.

Last night TWP Education Fund board member, Jennifer Rourke, was a panelist that discussed abortion stories after their showing of The Turnaway Play, performed at Brown University.
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The play was informed by the groundbreaking Turnaway Study. Read: ansirh.org

DUE TOMORROW: nominations for 2023-24 Pembroke Center Student Prizes. Faculty can nominate undergrad or grad students in any field. Learn more: buff.ly/3UbSULn. Brown University @browngradschool

Join the Friends of the Pembroke Center for Banned Books: Culture Wars and the Freedom to Read. Saturday, May 25, 2024, 11:00 a.m. List Art 120 Feat. local and Brown librarians and novelists. Jacinda Townsend Beatrice Pulliam Brown University Library Prov Public Library buff.ly/3w1DXCg

Due next week! Nominations for 2023-24 Pembroke Center Student Prizes. Faculty can nominate undergrad or grad students in any field. Learn more: buff.ly/3UbSULn. Brown University @browngradschool

Mon. 4/29, 7:00 p.m. The Turnaway Play: Pre-Premiere Reading and Panel. Inspired by the groundbreaking Turnaway study, (the first data-driven examination of the consequences for women denied abortion access). Produced by a senior GNSS concentrator & sponsored by the GNSS DUG.

Grateful to artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat for sharing her work and stories in our annual Pembroke Publics Lecture. Thanks to CMES for co-sponsoring. Recording coming soon! @brownCMES

Our Pembroke Friends DC regional event, 'Adultification Bias: The Erasure of Black Girlhood' brought a great crowd of local Brunonians and supporters. Thanks to our speakers and team for bringing us together for this important discussion. Gender Justice & Opportunity
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now available online: a recording of 'Limits of Legibility: Questions of Blackness and Sexuality,' a colloquium featuring Joan Copjec, Lee Edelman, David Marriott, and Selamawit D. Terrefe, moderated by Elizabeth Wilson — watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=qyn4nL…

Join the Friends of the Pembroke Center for: Banned Books: Culture Wars and the Freedom to Read. Saturday, May 25, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. List Art 120 Feat. local and Brown librarians and novelists. Jacinda Townsend Beatrice Pulliam Brown University Library Prov Public Library

Brown faculty: nominations for 2023-24 Pembroke Center Student Prizes are now open. Faculty can nominate undergrad or grad students in any field. Learn more: buff.ly/3UbSULn. Brown University @browngradschool

Join us TODAY (Thursday, April 18) at 4:00 p.m. for the annual Pembroke Publics Lecture: Shirin Neshat on 'Women and Art in Times of Political Crisis.' Pembroke Hall 305. Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East Studies. @brownCMES
Learn more: buff.ly/49NPmUY

Spending the next two days at the Pembroke Center Archives with Berlant’s papers—already slightly weepy

Join us TOMORROW (Thursday, April 18) at 4:00 p.m. for the annual Pembroke Publics Lecture: Shirin Neshat on 'Women and Art in Times of Political Crisis.' Pembroke Hall 305. Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East Studies. @brownCMES
Learn more: buff.ly/49NPmUY

Students can register for these fall GNSS courses. And there's more to come! For the most up to date list of GNSS courses: buff.ly/4aywf1a

Spring Weekend, 1956, as recorded by Brun Mael, the yearbook for Pembroke College. Pembroke was the women’s college in Brown until 1971.

Very excited to share these two recordings!

Join us NEXT WEEK! Thursday, April 18 at 4:00 p.m. The annual Pembroke Publics Lecture: Shirin Neshat on 'Women and Art in Times of Political Crisis.' Pembroke Hall 305. Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East Studies. @brownCMES
Learn more: buff.ly/49NPmUY

Heads up: Nominations for 2023-24 Pembroke Center Student Prizes are now open. Faculty can nominate undergrad or grad students in any field. Learn more: buff.ly/3UbSULn. Brown University @browngradschool

DC area alumnae/i! Join us Monday, April 15 for Adultification Bias: The Erasure of Black Girlhood. 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. The Aspen Institute. A Friends of the Pembroke Center Regional Event. RSVP: buff.ly/3PlpPtO Gender Justice & Opportunity @BrownAlumni