Calendar of Events for Talking to the Girls
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Kheel Center for Labor-Management, Documentation & Archives, Cornell University
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Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, New York University
Wednesday March 23, 2022, 6:00 pm EST
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Casa Internazionale delle Donne e Centro Documentazione Internazionale Alma Sabatini, Rome, Italy
Friday, March 25, 2022 at 18:00 orario italiano (12:00 pm EST)
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Tell Me a Story with Annie Lanzillotto, City Lore
Saturday March 26, 2022 at 2 pm EST
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Italian American Museum of Los Angeles
Sunday, March 27, 2022, 1:00 pm PST (4:00 pm EST)
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New Jersey City University Center for the Arts, NJCU
Thursday, March 31, 2022, 11:30 am EST
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The College of New Jersey
The Story in History: Teaching the Triangle Fire
Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 12:15 pm EDT
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Fordham University
Friday, April 22, 2022, 1:15 pm EDT
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Museo italo americano San Francisco
Thursday, May 12, 2022, 6 pm Pacific (9 pm Eastern)
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Strade Dorate
Friday, May 22, 2022, 1:00 pm EDT
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Abruzzo and Molise Society of Washington DC Area
Saturday August 27, 2022, 7:00 PM EST
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Write America: A Reading for Our Country
Monday, September 19, 2022, 7:00 pm EDT
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I AM Books Bookstore, Boston
Friday, September 23, 2022, 7:00pm EST
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The Labor Museum
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The Community Church of Boston
March 19, 2023, 11:00 am-1:00 pm EST
press for Talking to the girls
Review of Talking to the Girls by Janet Zandy, Journal of Working Class Studies
Women in Labor History, From the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire to Today by Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue
Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Talking to the Girls, a new anthology of essays on the disastrous 1911 fire that killed nearly 150 workers, uses the past as a window to the present, The Progressive Magazine
The Triangle Fire Comes Full Circle for Edvige Giunta: An interview with writer, editor and activist, Edvige Giunta by Marci Merola, Pummarole: Reinvigorating Italian Culture in the Diaspora
A New Book Examines the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire — which a contributor worries his father might have started by Susie Davidson, Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Review of Talking to the Girls by Jane LaTour, New York Labor History Association
Review of Talking to the Girls by Doris Friedensohn, Radical Teacher
Isidore Abramowitz and the Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy by Martin Abromowitz, The Forward
“Writer and Educator Edvige Giunta Describes Impact of Triangle Fire Tragedy” by Nancy DeSanti, Abruzzo and Molise Heritage Society of the Washington, D.C. Area
Review of Talking to the Girls by Nicole Greaves, Ovunque Siamo
Triangle Fire Book Talk is March 21, Cornell University ILR School
Teacher Kimberly Schiller’s Essay Published in New Book, Huntington Public Schools
Una storia che ci chiama, l'incendio della Triangle Shirtwaist Factory di Edvige Giunta e Mary Anne Trasciatti, La Republica
“Ricordatevi di noi, morte in una fabbrica”: il racconto “intimo” e “politico” dell’incendio della Triangle legato all’8 marzo di Martina De Marco, Periodico Italiano
Il ricordo del Triangle fire tra Sicilia e America di Chiara Magrone, Ondaiblea
La Signora Liberta: Prof e Scrittrice dalla Parte dei Diritti, I Love Sicilia
Review of Talking to the Girls by Maddalena Marinari, Iperstoria
Praise for talking to the girls
“This book is a beautiful embodiment of testimony.”
— The Christian Century
"This work brings labor's history to life with stories and voices that have echoed down through generations. Apropos in these times as we are reminded of the horror of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire that fueled union organizing and union demands for enforceable occupational safety standards. As we learned then and painfully know now, workplace safety doesn’t just happen. The essays create a rich, unique view of our past while calling us to stand in solidarity today."
— Sara Nelson, International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO
“Talking to the Girls explores the wide-ranging effects of the 1911 fire on victims’ and survivors’ family members, artists, teachers, and labor activists. With many of its essays written by authors with personal connections to the disaster, Giunta and Trasciatti have woven together a collection that not only memorializes the tragedy but covers the ways, as they told The Progressive, it “continues to act as a catalyst for many forms of activism, from the street to the classroom.”
— Sarah Cords, The Progressive Magazine
“a call to keep the enduring memory of solidarity alive.”
— Roseanne Giannini Quinn, Altreitalie
“As a historian of migration, I really appreciate the book’s ability to show how important it is to keep history alive, to think seriously about how scholars can bring their expertise to bear beyond academia, and to collaborate with a broad range of actors to enact change. As a teacher, I look forward to assigning this book to my students.”
— Maddalena Marinari, Iperstoria
“Talking to the Girls is an insightfully constructed anthology of threaded history, scholarship, memory, family lore, teaching practices, and labor activism…. This international anthology embraces answerability, call and response, through multiple individual voices orchestrated as a collective chorus.””
— Janet Zandy, author of Hands: Physical Labor, Class, and Cultural Work
“This deeply moving and poignant anthology reminds us that the past is not over. By feeling the truth of the Triangle Fire—the trauma, the loss, and the fury—each essay invites us to remember the beauty of workers and organizers then and today who fight for a world where the wellbeing of workers is not sacrificed for capitalist greed.”
— Jennifer Guglielmo, Associate Professor of History, Smith College, author of Living the Revolution, and co-director, “Putting History in Domestic Workers’ Hands”
“Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Fire, is the first anthology of personal essays about this landmark tragedy—and spur for change—in American life. As such, these stories by survivors, family members, descendants, scholars, and activists are as sharp and sad and enraging and resolute as the fire itself was in galvanizing us to justice. Editors Edvige Giunta and Mary Anne Trasciatti do more than edit here, they know how to listen, and let these many varied voices bear witness.
— Kevin Baker, author of Dreamland
“A kaleidoscope of history that came to have a home within the hearts of these contributors, who share their personal reflections about the devastating events of 1911 and its legacy.”
— Jane Latour, New York Labor History Association