Thursday, June 21, 2018
Went to a reading sponsored by the San Francisco Foundation on the stories of women of color that are collected in an anthology edited by Deborah Santana called "All the Women in My Family Sing."
The book includes 72 short pieces about such topics as identity, immigration, beauty, family, trauma and travel. Fitting reading during these dark times, I'd say.
Rossana invited me and Lisa Young. We had delicious appetizers beforehand. Four writers attended and read their contribution to the anthology. Camile Hayes's piece called Klansville, USA captures her move as a child from LA to North Carolina and feeling the first blunt effects of racism at school, how it stays with you like a scar.
Afterward, I caught a ride with Lisa back to Oakland, talking the whole way, catching up on our lives, accepting the limitations of this country and the maddening demise of civility and common decency that has ravaged the national discourse.
Went to a reading sponsored by the San Francisco Foundation on the stories of women of color that are collected in an anthology edited by Deborah Santana called "All the Women in My Family Sing."
The book includes 72 short pieces about such topics as identity, immigration, beauty, family, trauma and travel. Fitting reading during these dark times, I'd say.
Rossana invited me and Lisa Young. We had delicious appetizers beforehand. Four writers attended and read their contribution to the anthology. Camile Hayes's piece called Klansville, USA captures her move as a child from LA to North Carolina and feeling the first blunt effects of racism at school, how it stays with you like a scar.
Afterward, I caught a ride with Lisa back to Oakland, talking the whole way, catching up on our lives, accepting the limitations of this country and the maddening demise of civility and common decency that has ravaged the national discourse.
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