Dr. Jaime Harker, Director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Mississippi and owner of Violet Valley Bookstore, the only feminist queer bookstore in Mississippi, will speak about her forthcoming book, Sapphfic: Queer Reading and Writing in the 21st Century. This event, celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month, is part […]
1884 Fellow Lessa Harvey's Feminist Book Club will meet for a conversation about Audre Lorde's collection of essays and speeches in Sister Outsider.
In this interactive financial literacy workshop, Dr. Cecilia Brooks, Associate Professor of Family Science at MUW, will demonstrate how contextual factors influence family financial and consumption practices. Her research interests include financial decision-making and family financial socialization. This event is part of the Women's College Colloquium Series. For more information, contact womenscollege@muw.edu, or call 662.370.0758.
In this final book club of fall 2026, we will discuss Jacqueline Harpman's newly translated speculative fiction novel, I Who Have Never Known Men. The book explores female friendship in a post-apocalyptic setting. 1884 Lessa Harvey's Feminist Book Club began through her collaboration with Friendly City Books during the Nancy Yates Community Engagement Program.
Located in historic Columbus, Mississippi, The W was founded in 1884 as the first state-supported college for women in the United States. Today, the university is home to 2,371 students in more than 70 majors and concentrations and has educated men for 40 years. The university is nationally recognized for low student debt, community and social mobility which empowers students to BE BOLD.
Be Bold.