my book tour is just a conduit for community!!!
yapping with you all is helping me regulate my nervous system *cries*
While the introvert/homebody in me is throwing up over this travel schedule, it also feels so special and healing to share space with everyone coming out to my book events. Each stop is so different, we might as well be discussing different books! But I love the unpredictability of it all :)
Thus far, my favorite conversations have come from moderators, audience members, and I in mutually vulnerable exchanges, candidly discussing everything from unlearning propaganda, to surviving while participating in settler institutions, to the contradictions and responsibilities of living in the imperial core. On theme with the year of the snake, we are shedding and renewing, grieving and anticipating, all while integrating insights as we midwife new worlds. And we are doing it together while remaining soft and open-hearted.
Events this week in LA, the Bay Area, and Portland:
TONIGHT February 3 – Los Angeles, CA | 7pm @ Skylight Books in conversation with Leo Sheng
February 5 – Berkeley, CA | 5:30pm @ UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library in conversation with Michelle Mijung Kim and poetry reading by Terisa Siagatonu, hosted by Eastwind Books [REGISTER HERE]
February 6 – Portland, OR | 7pm @ Literary Arts, in collaboration with Liminal Bodies and Queer AANHPI
February 8 – Daly City, CA | 1pm Kapwa Kultural Center in conversation with Berna Anat [REGISTER HERE]
February 9 – Oakland, CA | 10am @ Oak Life in conversation with Ciarra Jones, with Eastwind Books (Note: Oak Life is a progressive church and this event is a church service. If you’d like to only attend the book conversation, plan to arrive at 10:20am.)
I’m also headed to Las Vegas, Austin, and the East Coast in the coming months, with more dates in Boston and NYC still being added. Please check my website for event details.
