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Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing, Racism, and Asian American Life

Stephen D. Hyers Theater, Greensboro Cultural Center 200 N Davie Street, GREENSBORO, NC, United States

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* Three Asian-American authors use their work to discuss the rise in violence toward Asian-Americans while exploring the complex joys and responsibilities of writing and identity. With MICHAEL CROLEY, H'RINA DeTROY, and THIEN-KIM LAM. Hosted […]

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Upon Her Shoulders: Native Women and the South

Greensboro History Museum 130 Summit Avenue, GREENSBORO, NC, United States

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* With a focus on southeast Native women, Beasley and Jacobs share stories from an anthology they edited on justice, spirit, and community. With DRS. CHERRY BEASLEY and MARY ANN JACOBS. Hosted by ROBIN MIURA. CHERRY BEASLEY, PhD, […]

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Lost Mothers: Memoirs of Longing

Stephen D. Hyers Theater, Greensboro Cultural Center 200 N Davie Street, GREENSBORO, NC, United States

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* With ELISHEBA HAQQ and MEGAN CULHANE GALBRAITH. Hosted by LEE ZACHARIAS. You May also be interested in:  • Memoir Plus: A Conversation on Hybrid Memoir • $ WORKSHOP Down the Rabbit Hole of Your Own Life: A Creative […]

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The Truth about Disability: What We Don’t Talk About

Stephen D. Hyers Theater, Greensboro Cultural Center 200 N Davie Street, GREENSBORO, NC, United States

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* Around 20% of Americans live with a disability, but for many disability remains a taboo subject. Too often, the complex experiences of the disabled are reduced to pity or inspiration. On this panel, three […]

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Immigration and Refugee Matters

Greensboro History Museum 130 Summit Avenue, GREENSBORO, NC, United States

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* As the world continues to displace people in astonishing numbers, Abdo and Haqq bring the personal stories of individual lives effected by the continuing inhumane actions and responses to human suffering. With DIYA ABDO and ELISHEBA HAQQ. […]

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Lost & Found & Forgetting: Memoir as an Act of Moving Forward

Van Dyke Performance Space, Greensboro Cultural Center 200 N Davie Street, Greensboro, NC, United States

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* With KATHRYN SCHULZ and ALEXIS ORGERA. These two memoirs examine the pain of losing fathers, but something else is found in the process of loss, in the process of writing, and in the process […]

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Just Bring Yourself: A Conversation with Ann Hood and Julia Ridley Smith

Van Dyke Performance Space, Greensboro Cultural Center 200 N Davie Street, Greensboro, NC, United States

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* Join us for a conversation about the pleasures and challenges of writing memoir. When mining material from their own lives, how do writers decide what to include and what to let go? How much […]

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