The UCLA Hammer Museum will host a discussion forum tonight featuring musician, music executive and feminist figure Ani DiFranco and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Susan Faludi.
The two women will be discussing feminism and empowerment, according to Sarah Stifler, associate director of communications at the Hammer Museum.
DiFranco began as a singer and songwriter and plays the guitar. In 1989 she started her record label, Righteous Babe Records, under which she has released 19 of her own records and works with a number of emerging artists.
In addition to her artistic contributions to the music world, DiFranco has been noted as a feminist icon by Ms. Magazine and an influential artist by CMJ New Music Monthly.
DiFranco will be joined by Faludi, a Pulitzer Prize winner and author of well-known books “The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post 9/11 America” and “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women.”
Faludi’s writings have been featured in numerous prestigious publications including The New York Times and The New Yorker.
In 1991 she received a Pulitzer Prize for an article published in The Wall Street Journal regarding the effects of the buyout of Safeway Stores.
Admission to tonight’s forum is free and seating will be assigned first-come, first-served. The box office opens at 6 p.m.
Stifler recommended that attendees arrive early because she expects the event will reach capacity.
The lecture with DiFranco and Faludi is one of a series of Hammer events that bring notable professionals to speak about current events and social issues.