Join us for the first of our Book Tasting events! These will be a time for us to come together as a community as a different person each month reads an excerpt from a different book and facilitates discussions around it. This month Kelleen Maluski, Student Success and Engagement Librarian, will be reading from The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde. This event will take place on Thursday, September 22nd from 5:15-6:15pm via Zoom. You can register on our Events page. Registrants will be sent the link closer to the time of the event.
Audre Lorde was an extremely important and groundbreaking feminist, scholar, poet, activist, professor, and more who spent her time working toward liberation and justice for all. This piece is an intimate look into Lorde's struggles with cancer and the social issues that she had to battle against as a queer, Black, female in the United States healthcare system.
In this event we will be engaging with selections from The Cancer Journals while also reviewing media that connects Lorde's lived experiences to our present environment. There will be time for discussion, reflection, and questions.