Watertown's Lesbian History

TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 7:00—8:00 PM

Watertown Savings Bank Room (1st floor) Watertown Free Public Library123 Main St, Watertown, MA, 02472

Since the mid-1800s, Watertown has been home to a surprising concentration of lesbian communities. Watertown resident Robin Bernstein, a cultural historian and professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Harvard, will share images and artifacts from sculptor Harriet Hosmer, Helen Keller's circle of lesbian admirers, and Persephone Press (with an emphasis on the publication of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color).

Robin Bernstein is the Dillon Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. She has lived in Watertown since 2006. 

The talk is appropriate for adults and older kids.

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