Visioning Beyond the Parameters of Realism

Visioning Beyond the Parameters of Realism is a virtual panel centering Black women writers on the power of literature to envision futures outside the limitations of racism and patriarchy.

Date: Nov. 1, 2023

Time: 5-6:30 p.m. Pacific

RSVP here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eVu_t_TZSJCZyyZlJRRTgQ#/registration

Admission: FREE! (donations are welcome https://www.mightycause.com/organization/Aunt-Lute-Books)

This panel will feature debut Aunt Lute authors Kathya Alexander and Michele Berger (titles coming in 2024) alongside queer Afrofuturist and CEO/Founder of Sistah Scifi, Isis Asare, and Poetry for the People program director and Creative Writing instructor at UC Berkeley, Aya de Leon. These panelists will discuss the power of literature to envision futures outside existing systems of oppression.

Moderating the panel discussion will be author and organizer of the Afrosurreal Writers Workshop of Oakland, Ellen C McBarnette.

This panel is part of a larger project that includes the publication of upcoming projects from both Kathya Alexander and Michele Berger, reading events, and a workshop for Black femme, nonbinary, cis, and trans women writers. This project is funded in part by the Zellerbach Family Foundation and the San Francisco Arts Commission.

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