The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies will host Dr. Eshe Sherley, assistant professor of African American Studies at Wake Forest University, for a talk titled “Care in Crisis: How Black Women Pioneered a Black Feminist Politics of Social Reproduction.” The event will take place on Wednesday, February 25, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. in SQH 3105.
Drawing from her book in progress, Care in Crisis, Dr. Sherley examines the activism and lives of working-poor Black women in Atlanta, highlighting how their organizing around care and social reproduction shaped both the city’s political landscape and the development of Black feminist thought.