With lessons learned in Berea College’s Women’s and Gender Studies program in mind, Sharon Ngassa ’21 led us on an exploration of intersectional feminism and the works of Berea’s own bell hooks as she designed to represent Berea’s Fifth and Sixth Great Commitments to the kinship of all people and gender equality in the work of our woodshop.

Based loosely on diagrams Sharon had seen in class depicting intersecting circles of color as a means of representing both the differences inside all of us as individuals and the need for that difference inside any healthy society, these charcuterie boards are each as wonderfully unique as the individual student who made them.

 18"(L) x 12"(W)