If you have the afternoon off tomorrow, or work weird hours like I do, consider dropping by 92Y Tribeca for In the Fullness of Time: Women Writers on Life After 50. The downtown cultural center will host a panel of five highly influential female writers, in a discussion of “what it means to grow older as a woman in our world.” The writers attending made first made noise in the 1970s, introduced new vocabulary, had a hand in the development of the second wave of feminism and kept working through the third, and are speaking up now from a demographic that is often ignored. Erica Jong, author of Fear of Flying and Ntozake Shange, who wrote the groundbreaking poem-play “for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf” will both be in attendance. Moderators are Emily Upham and Linda Gravenson, who edited the collection In the Fullness of Time: 32 Women on Life After 50. Also participating are playwright Tina Howe, author Carolyn See, and author Abigail Thomas, who recently wrote the essay “Sex and the 66-Year-Old-Girl:
In the Fullness of Time is taking place at 92Y Tribeca, at 200 Hudson Street in New York. Tickets are available online.