Build Feminist Popular Power: Book Talk by Diana Sierra Becerra and Conversation with Salvadoran Revolutionaries

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Diana Sierra Becerra will present her new book, The Making of Revolutionary Feminism in El Salvador. It’s a history of daring women who organized one of the most combative labor movements in the Americas, took up arms to survive US-financed terror, and braided women’s liberation and socialism.

Salvadoran women who participated in the revolutionary organizations of the 1970s and 1980s will join the conversation. Their efforts to build feminist popular power has important strategic lessons in an age of growing fascism.

Diana Sierra Becerra is Assistant Professor of History. She received the Outstanding Public History Award from the National Council on Public History in 2022. This is her first book.

Free and open to the public. A book signing will follow with books available to purchase from Amherst Books.

The UMass Old Chapel is located in the center of campus, approximately one city block from the Campus Center Parking Garage.

This event is presented by the UMass Amherst History Department. See webpage for co-sponsors.

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