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Author and Activist Winnie M. Li to visit UCC 15th March 2018

15 Mar 2018

George Mitchell Scholar returns for a reading and discussion of her book, Dark Chapter

Winnie M. Li first came to Ireland, and to UCC, as one of the first George Mitchell Scholars in 2000-2001. She spent a year in the School of English in UCC studying for a MA focusing on issues of gender and sexuality in Irish writing (ultimately writing an MA dissertation on the traveller and author Dervla Murphy), and subsequently moved to London where she worked as a film-maker for a number of years.

As she explains in a recent  article, her relationship with Ireland took a traumatic turn in 2008, when she visited Belfast to attend events commemorating the 10^th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, and was raped in a park on the outskirts of the city.

Winnie has drawn on these experiences to write a widely-acclaimed novel, , (it won the , which is voted on by readers of the Guardian and is currently nominated for the prestigious Edgar Awards in the US) and is also an activist in the area of sexual violence against women and girls. She co-founded the  festival, which aims to challenge the silence and stigma that surrounds sexual violence. Winnie was also one of four sexual assault survivors profiled in the TV3 documentary Unbreakable: True Lives, which aired last September. 

Winnie will visit UCC on Thursday 15 March for a reading and discussion jointly sponsored by the School of English and Women鈥檚 Studies. The event will take place from 5.30-7 pm in Room 1.23 in the O鈥橰ahilly Building. For further information please contact Dr Cl铆ona 脫 Gallchoir (c.gallchoir@ucc.ie)

You can read more about Winnie鈥檚 writing and her activism on her , and her work has also been covered extensively in the media, including the ,  and on the Sean O鈥橰ourke programme on .