Event: Black-Asian Solidarity Book Fair
Event: Black-Asian Solidarity Book Fair
Slides prepared by @uncannypong
Slide designer @singhasonh
This Saturday April 29th, I am thrilled to be taking part in a Black-Asian solidarity book fair in New York City through the organisation @blasianmarch.
The book fair will take place from 1-5 PM at Immigrant Social Services, 137 Henry Street in Chinatown, and will end with a Writing In Solidarity panel at 4-5pm featuring myself and Daphne Palasi Andreades, author of Brown Girls.
The fair will be giving away free books by Black/African Diaspora/SWANA and Asian Diaspora/SWANA authors to promote solidarity through sharing stories to foster understanding between communities.
Slides prepared by @uncannypong
Slide designer @singhasonh
Daphne Palasi Andreades is the author of the debut novel, BROWN GIRLS, which published in 2022 with Random House. BROWN GIRLS was selected as a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and has been taught to high school, undergraduate, and graduate-level students. Internationally, BROWN GIRLS has published in the UK and Commonwealth, France, and Germany. Daphne is a proud graduate of New York City public schools and went on to earn her MFA in Fiction at Columbia University. Born and raised in Queens, New York, Daphne is now at work on her second novel.
Follow @BlasianMarch for more information about the fair.
Mona Eltahawy is a feminist author, commentator and disruptor of patriarchy. She is editing an anthology on menopause called Bloody Hell! And Other Stories: Adventures in Menopause from Across the Personal and Political Spectrum. Her first book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution (2015) targeted patriarchy in the Middle East and North Africa and her second The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls (2019) took her disruption worldwide. It is now available in Ireland and the UK. Her commentary has appeared in media around the world and she makes video essays and writes a newsletter as FEMINIST GIANT.