The House of D: A Panel on the Women’s House of Detention

Audre Lorde described the Women’s House of Detention, an eleven-story Art Deco prison located next door to the Jefferson Market Courthouse (now Library). as “a defiant pocket of female resistance, ever-present as a reminder of possibility, as well as punishment.” From 1932 to 1971, radicals and revolutionaries, including Valerie Solanas, Angela Davis, Grace Paley, Ethel Rosenberg, Stonewall rioter Jay Toole, and countless more passed through the prison’s doors. Learn from scholars and community members in this special panel event.