Rebecca Traister’s talk about women, anger, political change rescheduled to Oct. 29

Award-winning journalist Rebecca Traister will discuss women, anger and political change in a lecture hosted by the University of Maine. The free, public talk “Good and Mad: Rebecca Traister on Women, Anger, and Political Change,” will be held  5–6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, via Zoom.

Traister is a leading voice on gender, society and politics. She has written three books, including The New York Times bestsellers “Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger” and “All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation.” 

Traister is a writer-at-large for New York magazine and The Cut. Novelist and nonfiction writer Anne Lamott called Traister “the most brilliant voice on feminism in this country.”

Registration is required and can be done on the event webpage. To request a reasonable accommodation, call 207.581.3822. 

The Stephen E. King Chair lecture series, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and UMaine Alumni Association are co-sponsors of the event, with generous support from the Alton ’38 and Adelaide Hamm Campus Activity Fund. More information about the King Chair Lecture Series is online.