A Program of Virginia Humanities
Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life, will speak at the annual Read & Lead Lunch on March 18, 2020.
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Tags: African American, Biography / Memoir, Book Club Picks, Headliners, Health / Mind / Body, Nonfiction, Sports / Outdoors / Animals
Elizabeth Earley (Like Wings, Your Hands) and Raymond Luczak (Flannelwood) discuss their novels and the decision to embrace characters with disabilities, who are too often left out of or underrepresented in contemporary fiction. FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Tags: Family / Aging, Fiction, Health / Mind / Body, LGBTQ
Rachel Louise Snyder (No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us) shares the research and reporting involved in this deep examination of what lies behind domestic abuse, the intense psychological terrorism that can spiral into family violence and lost lives. FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Tags: Current Affairs / World Affairs / War, Gender, Health / Mind / Body
Listen to and honor the Women’s Initiative’s “Challenge Into Change” essay contest participants while celebrating the power of storytelling as a way towards healing and empowerment. Jaquira Díaz (Ordinary Girls: A Memoir) will read from her work, contest participants will be recognized, and the top three award recipients will read from their own work. Book sales and signing will follow. FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Tags: Biography / Memoir, Family / Aging, Gender, Health / Mind / Body, Language / Culture / Folklife, Latinx, LGBTQ, Nonfiction, Publishing / Books / Writing, Social Justice
Patricia Frye (The Medical Marijuana Guide), Nikki Furrer (A Woman’s Guide to Cannabis), and Lizzie Post (Higher Etiquette) discuss their nonfiction guides to marijuana, demystifying cannabis as an alternative medical treatment for some, tackling questions of etiquette and use in states where marijuana is already legal, and unpacking the ongoing processes of decriminalization and legalization across the country.
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Authors Sarah Milov (The Cigarette), Igor Volsky (Guns Down), and James C. Zimring (What Science is and How it Really Works) delve into the history behind manipulations of scientific studies for economic and political gain, within a discussion of how science works and how much confidence we can be place on scientific claims. FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Tags: Current Affairs / World Affairs / War, Environment / Science, Health / Mind / Body, History
Authors Lauren Casper (Loving Well in a Broken World), Kim McLarin (Womanish), and Katherine Wintsch (Slay Like a Mother) offer their perspectives and experiences on parenting young and grown children, loving well, achieving goals, and what it means to be a strong, loving woman today. FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Tags: African American, Biography / Memoir, Family / Aging, Health / Mind / Body, Spirituality / Religion
Micah Jones and Lisa Speidel (editors, The Edge of Sex: Navigating a Sexually Confusing Culture From the Margins), Jennie Vanasco (Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl) discuss their explorations of sex from numerous perspectives, including education, gender and identity, consent and assault, and look at how we navigate changing norms and expectations. FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Tags: Biography / Memoir, Education / Teaching, Gender, Health / Mind / Body, LGBTQ
Megan Angelo (Followers), Rion Amilcar Scott (The World Doesn’t Require You), and Deb Olin Unferth (Barn 8) discuss their satirical novels that use humor to challenge the status quo.
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Tags: African American, Environment / Science, Fiction, Health / Mind / Body, Humor, Language / Culture / Folklife
Megan Angelo (Followers), Anita Felicelli (Chimerica), and Rachael Sparks (Resistant) discuss their speculative fiction, set in near futures full of delightfully dystopian details.
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Tags: Environment / Science, Fiction, Gender, Health / Mind / Body, Humor, Science Fiction / Fantasy
Cameron Awkward-Rich (Dispatch), Morgan Parker (Magical Negro), and Amy Woolard (Neck of the Woods) give readings of their poetry during this annual “late-night” Festival program.
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Tags: African American, Arts, Asian American, Current Affairs / World Affairs / War, Gender, Health / Mind / Body, LGBTQ, Poetry, Social Justice
Laura Lee Gulledge (The Dark Matter of Mona Starr), Maria Padian (How to Build a Heart), and Morgan Parker (Who Put This Song On?) discuss their young adult novels and graphic novel tackling questions of identity and mental health, for readers of all ages.
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Tags: African American, Comics / Graphic Novels, Family / Aging, Fiction, Health / Mind / Body, StoryFest / Youth
Frank Pasciuti (Chrysalis Crisis: How Life’s Ordeals Can Lead to Personal & Spiritual Transformation) and Bobbi Patterson (Building Resilience Through Contemplative Practice) discuss their experience and writing, to offer responses to life’s ordeals, whether a physical or emotional crisis or burnout through service to a community. FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Tags: Health / Mind / Body, Nonfiction
Lamar Giles (Not So Pure and Simple), NoNieqa Ramos (The Truth Is), and Brynne Rebele-Henry (Orpheus Girl) discuss their young adult novels for all ages, which tackle difficult topics, from sexuality and race to religion and family.
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Tags: African American, Family / Aging, Gender, Health / Mind / Body, Humor, Latinx, LGBTQ, StoryFest / Youth
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