Jennifer Finney Boylan | Gender, Politics, and Imagination

February 16, 2017

Jennifer Finney Boylan, the inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University, speaks about privilege, politics, and poetics. The author of 15 books—including She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders (Broadway Books, 2003), the first best-selling work by a transgender American—Boylan is also the chair of the board of GLAAD and a New York Times op-ed page contributing writer.

Introductions by Lizabeth Cohen, Dean, Radcliffe Institute, and Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, History Department, Harvard University.

Jane Kamensky, Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, and professor of history, History Department, Harvard University.

After her remarks, Boylan engages the Harvard College students Schuyler Bailar ’19 and Jessica Fournier ’17 in a wide-ranging conversation about gender and sexuality issues on and beyond college campuses.