Law professor underscores reproductive rights
By Laura Howe | For The Pitt News
November 10, 2017
An older man in the audience of a reproductive rights lecture looked around the room and commented on the lack of people like him. “You know, I think Rep. [Tim] Murphy summed up the whole problem, and that is men sort of abandon the issue or exclude themselves from the discussion until it immediate...
Meghan Daum reads, shares stories with students
By Abhignya Mallepalli / Staff Writer
April 7, 2017
A casual game of charades between A-list celebrities was the perfect opportunity for writer and editor Meghan Daum to transcend the line between being present and invisible. Daum’s experience at a star-studded party as an aspiring screenwriter served as the premise for “Invisible City,” an essay ...
LGBTQ visual activist discusses ‘curative rape’ in South Africa
By John Lavanga / A&E Editor
October 9, 2013
As South African photographer and LGBTQ visual activist Zanele Muholi — joined on the stage by Lerato Dumse, a participant in Muholi’s photography and member of her activist group, Inkanyiso — stared out at the modest audience from the stage of the Carnegie Lecture Hall on Tuesday night as a part of ...