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Feminist Book Club: Hunger

Sun, Mar 08

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Cafe con Libros

Our book club brings folx together across difference to read, analyze, and critique Feminist text from an intersectional point of view. This means, we do not avoid race or racism and the unique ways it impacts womxn and specifically, Black womxn.

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Feminist Book Club: Hunger
Feminist Book Club: Hunger

Time & Location

Mar 08, 2020, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Cafe con Libros, 724 Prospect Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11216, USA

About the Event

 I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I had been because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one I made but barely recognized or understood but of my own making. I was miserable, but I was safe.” 

In this intimate and searing memoir, the New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay addresses the experience of living in a body that she calls “wildly undisciplined.” She casts an insightful and critical eye over her childhood, teens, and twenties—including the devastating act of violence that was a turning point in her young life—and brings readers intwo the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life. 

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