Singer, songwriter Chastity Brown to speak Sept. 27

Brown will perform at noon Sept. 27 in the Atwood Memorial Center Theatre as part of the Women on Wednesday speaker series.

Brown’s music is political and personal, covering topics of identity and belonging. Her newest album “Silhouette of Sirens” debuted to a sold-out crowd at the Fitzgerald Theatre in June 2017. She has toured in the United States and abroad. She has been featured on National Public Radio’s “Favorite Sessions”, CMT, American Songwriter and the London Times.

She is also a contributing artist to Think Out Loud, a Twin Cities effort to end homelessness through music.

“What I’ve realized is that the personal is political,” Brown said in her website’s biography. “Just by me being a bi-racial, half-black, half-white woman living in America right now is political. Just being a person of color, a queer woman of color, for that matter, is freaking political.”

The Women’s Center’s noon-hour lecture series, Women on Wednesday, brings diverse women and programming to St. Cloud State to cover political, social, legal and economic issues affecting women’s lives. Lectures are held on select Wednesdays at noon in the Atwood Theatre in the Atwood Memorial Center. Women on Wednesday is free and open to the public.