Join us as Tressie McMillan Cottom and Kate Manne engage in a wide-ranging conversation on feminism, gender, race, culture, education and current events. 

Tressie McMillan Cottom is is a sociologist, professor and cultural critic known for her incisive essays on social problems. She is the author of two books: “Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy” and “Thick: And Other Essays.” Her second book was a 2019 finalist for the National Book Award for nonfiction. She has been a New York Times opinion columnist since 2022. She is a professor with the Center for Information, Technology and Public Life at UNC-Chapel Hill and the recipient of a 2020 MacArthur “genius” Fellowship. 

Kate Manne is a professor at the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University. Her books include “Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny” (2018), which won the APA book prize and the PROSE award for philosophy and the humanities, “Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women” (2020), an Atlantic book of the year, and “Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia” (2024), a National Book Award Finalist in non-fiction. In addition to her academic work, she frequently writes pieces for wider audiences, including in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Atlantic, as well as her Substack newsletter, More to Hate. 

This event is free and open to the public. Copies of books by Kate Manne and Tressie McMillan Cottom will be handed out to the first 150 in-person attendees.