Sexual Secrets of Successful Women, featuring Diana Pharr & Safiya

Safiya Ellis Bandele is Director Emeritus of the Center for Women’s Development at Medgar Evers College of The City University of New York.  Since retiring  from MECC  she has created a performance piece on the late, great Ida B. Wells-Barnett: educator, lynching abolitionist, journalist and women's rights advocate.  Using narration, dance/movement, song and images, Bandele presents the significance of this "Warrior for Justice".  She has performed locally and nationally - including a highly-acclaimed performance in Holly Springs, Mississippi, the birthplace of Ida B. Wells.   Safiya's writings on  mass incarceration, women's trauma/redemption, and the efficacy of performance art were published in the online magazine In The Fray, the literary journal And Then, and the print anthology Love Lives Here Too, published by Resilience Media.   As a part of the nationwide "Gathering" event on September 22 she will be presenting The Five Phase’s of the Feminine Principe in addition to other spoke word pieces.  In Brooklyn New York at the historic at 1130 Fulton Street @ 7pm