CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

In this interview, Lenina Nadal discussed her experiences in the middle of the 1990s in the Coalition Against the Cuts and as an original member of the Student Liberation Action Movement (SLAM!). She highlighted the importance of SLAM! being a women of color-led organization and the ways the group practiced a feminist politics. She made clear the centrality of culture to SLAM! in her discussion of music, dance, poetry, theater, and popular education. She discussed connections between SLAM! and earlier struggles, including the Open Admissions struggle at the City University of New York and the founding of the Puerto Rican and Latino Studies department at Brooklyn College, which her parents were involved in.