Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party is an installation consisting of a banquet table with places set for 39 mythical and historical women; it honors an additional 999 women by inscribing their names in gold. The work, completed in 1979, addresses the absence of women from dominant historical narratives. Chicago intended The Dinner Party to be so vast and impressive that women could never again be erased from history.

Ericka Hart is a Black queer femme activist, writer, and award-winning sexuality educator. Hart is currently an adjunct faculty member at Columbia University's School of Social Work and the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College. Here, she discusses the mixed legacy of reproductive rights activist Margaret Sanger.

This episode is part of The Dinner Party Today, a series by the Brooklyn Museum in which artists, writers, and thinkers reflect on the artwork's legacy and the women it represents.

Learn more about the Puerto Rican contraceptive trials mentioned in this episode. Also read more about The Dinner Party, Margaret Sanger, and the Heritage Floor, where the names of an additional 999 women are inscribed. Visit the Brooklyn Museum to see the installation in person.

This project was produced by Seaplane Armada and the Brooklyn Museum.