this is about an hour and 20 minutes. would evening, ladies and gentlemen. i think we will get started. we are expecting lots more people, that we don t know what the traffic or the subway situation is. i am susan jones, i am also the director of the museum of the city of new york. i am so delighted to welcome you all here for this program. women rebels, margaret sanger and the birth-control movement at 100, tonight, author and journalist katha pollitt will lead a conversation with activists and scholars. a singer viagra for, loretta ross and historian linda gordon. to mark the 100th anniversary of the movement possible origin in 1914, table discuss sanger s legacy and the birth-control movement for activists today. i really do thank c-span for recognizing the importance, and being here to record tonight s program. this is part of our ongoing activist new york series. all of which are sponsored by the puffin foundation. our series is done in conjunction with an exhibition o
/localcontent. you re watching american history tv. all weekend, every weekend on c-span. up next, a discussion about the 20th century birth control advocate margaret sanger and her legacy. we hear from a panel of historians, activists, and her own grandson. they discuss the impact of race, social class, and politics on the birth-control movement. this is about an hour and 20 minutes. good evening, ladies and gentlemen. i think we will get started. we are expecting lots more people, but we don t know what the traffic or the subway situation is. i am susan henshaw jones, i am also the ronay menschel director of the museum of the city of new york. i am so delighted to welcome you all here for this program. women rebels, margaret sanger and the birth-control movement at 100. tonight, author and journalist katha pollitt will lead a conversation with activists and scholars of the productive rights movement. sanger biographer, ellen chesler, reproductive justice activist loretta
[laughter] myra macpherson: i used to hate public speaking, and i would get anxiety, and i still do, but i was at a speech and a woman was in the front row and she was smiling, so i found myself playing to her. all of you remember jack, my wonderful jack gordon, and he would say it all matters about the 95% and who the hell cares about the other 5%? so i was focusing on this woman and finally i got so angry at the end of this q&a and i was wondering what her problem was and so i asked the woman next to her, and she said, oh, she is him germany from germany she doesn t understand a word you are saying. so i wanted to focus on these sisters, because they were incredible female lecturers of their time. but at the beginning, they both almost fainted when they first started to speak, and i thought maybe this is an interesting story. maybe they developed this amazing skill without anything behind this and it is just one little person on a huge stage and when tennie the youngest,
janet was referring to, you know, the moral injury, people pay more and more attention to that, and let s note pretend this only exists on the military side of the equation. there s trama and disability in the world as well. to me, you might disagree, but, to me, it s the commonality here is once something happens in your life, whether it s a single event or accumulation of things, but there s some it s not just trauma, but something happens that just rattles you down to the bones. what do you do then? succumb to it or busy trying to recover. ptsd, civilian or military, one of the guys said, you know, life comes with trauma, and trauma necessarily comes from a sense of recovery. that s what we do, and to get back to the idea to be careful here because of the notion of perpetuating the stereotype of the imroaken soldier. that s there are broken soldiers from these wars. does not mean they are forever broken. probably most of them, throughout history, will not be, but that
i want you also to note that at the end of the session 10 or 15 minutes before the end we will be taking questions from the audience. there is a microphone set up in one of the isles and if you are immobile reach her hand and we the mic to you. let me start with myra macpherson. she is an author and a veteran journalist. she has had many years of the washington post writing for the paper s legendary style section. she has interviewed serial killers, celebrities, international leaders like cuba s fidel castro and when she was in and then she interviewed president kennedy. i was four. she wrote for the post on vietnam veterans and led her to write her groundbreaking book groundbreaking book long time passing vietnam and the junta generation one of the first books about the first to examine the insidious problem of ptsd. in 2006 she wrote all governments lie, the life and times of rebel journalist i have stoned and she has also delved into intimate topics and she came to