Now is the time to listen to thinkers and authors of color. Learn, ask questions, participate in this critical moment by listening to the voices that can open our eyes. Below are our Lockdown offerings featuring authors of color writing and speaking from many different angles and modes of expression—listen up!
All events are FREE and stream to Facebook Live and Crowdcast. |
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Alka Joshi and The Henna Artist
Thursday, June 11 • 6:00pm
A portrait of one woman’s struggle for fulfillment in a society pivoting between the traditional and the modern, The Henna Artist takes readers on a journey through 1950s Indian culture, a world that is at once lush and fascinating, stark and cruel. In convo with Tom Barbash. |
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You, Me, and Everyone in Quarantine
Tuesday, June 16 • 6:00pm
From the depths of their shelter-in-place, these writers will perform their literary hearts out for you! With Wo Chan, Katie Fricas, Micheal Foulk, and Preeti Vangani. Curated and hosted by Baruch Porras-Hernandez. |
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Wayétu Moore and The Dragons, the Giant, the Women
Thursday, June 25 • 6:00pm
Spanning this harrowing journey in Moore’s early childhood, her years adjusting to life in Texas as a black woman and an immigrant, and her eventual return to Liberia, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women is a deeply moving story of the search for home in the midst of upheaval. In convo with Faith Adiele. |
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A Family Divided
Tuesday, July 14 • 6:00pm
Family separation has long been used as an intentional political tool to pressure, frighten, and terrorize. Authors Donna Hemans, Aimee Liu, Ellen Meeropol, and Kristen Millares Young discuss the impact of such wounds, and strengthen our shared belief in family and community connection. |
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Billy-Ray Belcourt and A Brief History of My Body
Thursday, July 23 • 6:00pm
Billy-Ray Belcourt's debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile First Nation. From there, it expands to encompass the big and broken world around him: a legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it, first loves and first loves lost, sexual exploration and intimacy, and the act of writing as a survival instinct and a way to grieve. What emerges is not only a profound meditation on memory, gender, anger, shame, and ecstasy, but also the outline of a way forward. In convo with Greg Sarris. |
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Afrofuturism: Risen From a Poet’s Sun
Tuesday, July 28 • 6:00pm
Afrofuturism: Risen From a Poet’s Sun explores the intersection of technology, science, and the arts, as well as culture, of the African Diaspora. Feat. Bay Area poets James Cagney, Tongo-Eisen Martin, Thea Matthews, and Tureeda Mikell. |
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