"A Chicanadyke Codex of Changing Consciousness"
March 20, 2003, 4 p.m. in Alma Thomas Theater
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A Performance of Readings from Cherrķe Moraga's
book, "The Hungry Woman"
March 19, 2003, 8 p.m. in Caldwell Carvey Foyer
This year's Jessie Daniel Ames Lecture featuring Cherríe L. Moraga will take place on Thursday, March 20 at 4:00 p.m. in the Alma Thomas Theater.
Cherríe Moraga is a poet, playwright and essayist, and the co-editor of the classic feminist anthologies This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (which drastically changed American feminism to include women of color) and Cuentos: Stories by Latinas. She is the author of numerous plays including Shadow of a Man and Watsonville: Some Place Not Here (which won the fund for New American Plays award in 1991 and 1995, respectively), and Heros and saint, which earned the Pen West Award for Drama in 1992. Her two most recent books include a collection of poems and essays entitled The Last Generation and a memoir, Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood. A collection of her plays, Some Place Not Here, was published in 2001.
Ms. Moraga is also a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts' Theatre Playwrights' Fellowship and is the Artist-in-Residence in the Departments of Drama and Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford University. Born in los Angeles in 1952, Moraga now lives in Oakland with her lover and their children.
