Center for New Words

7 Temple Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
United States

617-876-5310; cnwcenterfornewwords.org

Weboldal: http://www.centerfornewwords.org

Események URL: http://www.centerfornewwords.org…

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Leírás: The Center for New Words is dedicated to a simple mission: To use the power and creativity of words and ideas to strengthen the voice of progressive and marginalized women in society. Book events are held at 7 Temple Street and other locations; please check event schedule for venue.

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Danya Ruttenberg (szeptember 4 19:00-kor)

Danya Ruttenberg reads from Surprised By God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion .

Surprised by God is a religious coming of age story, from the mosh pit to the Mission District and beyond. It’s the memoir of a young woman who found, lost, and found again communities of like-minded seekers, all the while taking a winding, semi-reluctant path through traditional Jewish practice that ... (Na, még egyet)eventually took her to the rabbinate. It’s a post-dotcom, third-wave, punk-rock Seven Storey Mountain—the story of the political implications of integrating life on the edge of the twenty-first century into the discipline of traditional Judaism without sacrificing either.

Esemény helyszíne: Central Square Library, 45 Pearl Street, Cambridge

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Reading: Queer - a new kind of book group (szeptember 9 18:00-kor)

Craving something more with your reading this Fall? Join us for a reading group on sexual and gender identity, featuring a top-notch booklist covering everything from cutting edge to classics. Facilitators Toni Amato and Jaclyn Friedman will lead this 5 week exploration of queerness and literature, making ... (Na, még egyet)connections between the worlds of the authors and our own lives. The group is FREE and will meet every other Tuesday, September 9 - November 11, from 6 to 8 PM. Books will be made available at a discount to all, and free to those with financial need. Space is limited - call 617-876-5310 or email klpereira@centerfornewwords.org to let us know you’re interested.

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Queer and Catholic (szeptember 19 19:00-kor)

Amie Evans and others reads from Queer and Catholic.

How does faith inform your sexuality? Queer and Catholic examines the culture of how being raised catholic informs and influences, positively or negatively, our queerness and how our queerness affects our Catholicism, our vestigial catholic nature or even our flight from and continued struggle with ... (Na, még egyet)the ‘the Church of Rome.’ Whether we embrace or reject our Catholic upbringings, they affect and shape who we are and bump up against our queer identities. Examining the culture of Catholicism, rather than the dogma or letter of it, these essays and short stories do not seek to address whether or not queers and the Catholic Church can reconcile or how and why the church should change, but instead explore the impact that growing up Catholic and queer has on us as individuals, writers, and political agents. Join editor Amie M. Evans, and contributors: Austin J. Austin, Susan McDonough-Hintz, Mallory Hanora, Vince Sgambati, and Emanuel Xavier as they read from their contributions to the anthology with special guest Scott Pomfret.

Esemény helyszíne: Linda K. Paresky Conference Center at Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA

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Stephanie Elizondo Griest (október 6 19:00-kor)

Stephanie Elizondo Griest reads from Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines .

Part memoir, part journalistic reportage, Mexican Enough illuminates how we often cast off our identity in our youth, only to strive to find it again as adults—and the lessons to be learned along the way.

Esemény helyszíne: Linda K. Paresky Conference Center at Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA

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Nancy Polikoff (március 13 19:00-kor)

Nancy Polikoff promotes Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families Under the Law.

A persuasive argument that married couples should not receive special rights denied to other families, Polikoff shows how the law can value all families, and why it must.

Esemény helyszíne: Kotzen Meeting Center, in Lefavour Hall at Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston

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reading: Class (április 2 18:00-kor)

Betsy Leondar-Wright and Linda Carney-Goodrich discusses books on class and identity.

Join us for a reading group on class and economic disparity, featuring a top-notch booklist covering everything from cutting edge to classics. Facilitators Linda Carney-Goodrich and Betsy Leondar-Wright will lead this 8 week exploration of class, identity and literature, making connections between the ... (Na, még egyet)worlds of the authors and our own lives. The group will meet every other Wednesday, April 2 - May 28, from 6 to 8 PM. Space is limited — call 617-876-5310 or email klpereira at centerfornewwords.org to let us know you’re interested.

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hattie gossett (április 30 19:00-kor)

hattie gossett reads from the immigrant suite: hey xenophobe who you calling a foreigner?.

Writing from the upper west side of Manhattan, where Harlem intersects with waves of immigrants from the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Korea, Cambodia, Ivory Coast, India, Native America, and from all over the globe, hattie gossett vividly invokes her neighborhood experience. With wit and candor, ... (Na, még egyet)she questions why so many people are forced from their home countries, only to be despised as interlopers in the United States; why older immigrants see younger ones as the enemy; who gets paid a living wage, who gentrifies their neighborhood, and who sends their money back home. From the grocery store to the cleaners to the tenement walk-up and everywhere in between, gossett captures the voices overheard and imagined in this breathless immigrant suite.

Esemény helyszíne: Kotzen Meeting Center, in Lefavour Hall at Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston

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Nadejda Marques (máj. 8 19:00-kor)

Nadejda Marques reads from Born Subversive: A Memoir of Survival.

Nadejda Marques was born in the midst of social upheaval, violence and transformation in Brazil. In 1973, when she is just nine months old, her father is kidnapped, tortured and murdered by the military regime that seized power in Brazil in 1964. Her mother then flees to Chile alone. A friend takes the ... (Na, még egyet)infant Nadejda separately to Santiago, Chile where the three meet just days before the military coup d’Ã©tat there led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet in September 1973. Nadejda and her mother now must flee Pinochet’s henchmen. They become refugees setting off on a journey that takes them to Sweden, Russia, Cuba, Panama and, finally, back to Brazil. Later, Nadejda continues her own journey, marrying an American human rights activist in Brazil, working in Angola and settling eventually, in Massachusetts.

Esemény helyszíne: Central Square Library, 45 Pearl Street, Cambridge

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Nora Pierce (máj. 15 19:00-kor)

Nora Pierce reads from The Insufficiency of Maps.

In Pierce’s forceful debut, Alice is five when she and her homeless, mentally ill mother, Amalie (Mami, she calls her), arrive at Papi’s trailer in an Arizona Indian reservation to live....

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Spell Albuquerque (október 2 19:00-kor)

Tennessee Reed reads from Spell Albuquerque: Memoir of a Difficult Student.

Co-sponsored by Lesley University Women’s Center Spell Albuquerque is an inspiring memoir of one woman’s struggle to overcome racism and institutional authority and to achieve what everyone said was impossible. “I’m not like them,” Tennessee Reed would tell her teachers; couldn’t they ... (Na, még egyet)see that the approach they used for students with “normal” brains didn’t always work for her? The daughter of writer/choreographer Carla Blank and novelist Ishmael Reed, Tennessee was diagnosed at an early age with several language-based learning disorders. The bottom line, the experts agreed, was that she would never read or write. Using great reserves of courage, a teenaged Reed fought an educational system that often defined her disabilities as laziness or stupidity and within a few years, published her first book of poetry, wrote the text for Meredith Monk performances, and traveled the world to read her poems. Join us for what promises to be an inspiring reading and discussion about the limitations of the U.S educational system and one student who was able to overcome them.

Esemény helyszíne: University Hall Amphitheater at Lesley College, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

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