Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out Anthology

I will be the Special Guest Host for the Bay Area Launch of "Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out" Anthology

Friday, March 11 · 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Location	UC Berkeley - Multicultural Community Center 200 MLK Jr. Student Union (formerly Heller Lounge) - Northwest corner of Telegraph & Bancroft Berkeley, CA Authors Reading March 11th: Mica Valdez Kirya Traber Amy Pimentel Angela Dosalmas Lisa Marie Rollins Rage Hezekiah Pheonix Rising Artist Showing: Margo Rivera-Weiss Musical Guest: TBA There will be copies of the book for purchase on site!! This event is co sponsored by: Inanna Publications Macha Femme Third Root Art Collective WCRC Hueso Productions QWOCMAP MultiCultural Center at UCB and more coming soon! OTHER TONGUES: MIXED-RACE WOMEN SPEAK OUT is an anthology of poetry, spoken word, fiction, creative non-fiction, spoken word texts, as well as black and white artwork and photography, explores the question of how mixed-race women in North America identify in the twenty-first century. Contributions engage, document, and/or explore the experiences of being mixed-race, by placing interraciality as the center, rather than periphery, of analysis. Praise for OTHER TONGUES: MIXED-RACE WOMEN SPEAK OUT: In a fresh approach to the quest for understanding mixed-race identity in the Americas, the multiple genres that find their way into the Other Tongues anthology -- from poetry to photography, fiction to scholarship -- perfectly mirror the prodigious spectrum of their authors’ positions toward the topic. This collection speaks boldly and poignantly to who we are, and by "we" I mean not only women of mixed-race ancestry, but all citizens of 21st-century North America. -- Lise Funderburg, author of Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity These exciting, beautifully inked narratives tell us that, as each woman embraces her biracial or multiracial identity, she mothers a new world, one with equal space for everyone. -- George Elliott Clarke, Africadian & Eastern Woodland Metis, Laureate, 2001 Governor-General’s Award for Poetry Passionate, courageous and insightful, Other Tongues speaks affectingly about the pleasures and paradoxes of living between the conventional categories of race. It is a significant anthology, one that I've been waiting for. -- Karina Vernon, Assistant Professor, Black Canadian Literature and Diaspora Studies, University of Toronto