{"id":4646,"date":"2018-04-25T11:27:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T15:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/?post_type=event&p=4646"},"modified":"2018-10-19T12:33:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T16:33:24","slug":"critical-caribbean-feminisms-roxane-gay","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/critical-caribbean-feminisms-roxane-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"Roxane Gay in Conversation with Katia D. Ulysse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roxane Gay, award-winning author of Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body<\/em> (2017), Difficult Women<\/em> (2017), and Bad Feminist<\/em> (2014) and Katia D. Ulysse, Haitian poet, essayist and author of Drifting<\/em> (2014), among other works, will join us for a reading and conversation in the Critical Caribbean Feminisms series. Following the reading, Gay, Ulysse, and BCRW Associate Director Tami Navarro will discuss various forms of writing–including novels, memoir, and social media interventions–and examine how these create space for conversations around and advocacy for social justice.<\/p>\n

This event is free and open to the public. All advance tickets have been claimed. A limited number of tickets will be available and released on a first-come, first-seated basis. For more information, visit the CUNY Grad Center event page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About the Speakers\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"RoxaneRoxane Gay<\/strong> is an author and cultural critic whose writing is unmatched and widely\u00a0revered. Her work garners international acclaim for its reflective, no-holds-barred\u00a0exploration of feminism and social criticism. With a deft eye on modern culture, she\u00a0brilliantly critiques its ebb and flow with both wit and ferocity.<\/p>\n

Words like \u201ccourage,\u201d \u201chumor,\u201d and \u201csmart\u201d are frequently deployed when describing\u00a0Roxane. Her collection of essays, Bad Feminist<\/em>, is universally considered the\u00a0quintessential exploration of modern feminism. NPR<\/em> named it one of the best books of\u00a0the year and Salon<\/em> declared the book \u201ctrailblazing.\u201d Her powerful debut novel, An\u00a0Untamed State<\/em>, was long listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. In 2017,\u00a0Roxane released her highly anticipated memoir, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body<\/em>, as well\u00a0as a collection of short stories titled Difficult Women<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Roxane is a contributing op-ed writer for The New York Times<\/em>, was the co-editor of\u00a0PANK<\/em>, and formerly was the non-fiction editor at The Rumpus<\/em>. Her writing has also\u00a0appeared in McSweeney\u2019s<\/em>, The Nation<\/em> and many other publications. She recently became\u00a0the first black woman to ever write for Marvel<\/em>, writing a comic series in the Black\u00a0Panther universe called World of Wakanda<\/em>. Roxane fronts a small army of avid fans on social media and when she finds the time, she dominates the occasional Scrabble\u00a0tournament.<\/p>\n

Katia D. Ulysse <\/strong>was born in Haiti, and came to the United States as a teen with not a single word of English in her pocket. She earned a BA in English Literature, a Master\u2019s in Teaching, and numerous certifications in the field of education. Over the course of fifteen years, Ms. Ulysse taught English to hundreds of immigrants and refugees from countries around the globe, including Vietnam, Syria, Somalia, Eritrea, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and more. She worked in Baltimore City\u2019s toughest schools for 15 years, advocating for at-risk students. Her experiences as an immigrant and teacher are strongly represented in her short stories, personal essays, Pushcart-nominated poetry, and music. Ulysse\u2019s critically-acclaimed story collection,\u00a0Drifting<\/em>,\u00a0and her new novel,\u00a0Mouths Don\u2019t Speak<\/em>.\u00a0continue to draw high praise from literary critics. Her work appear or will appear in the following literary journals and anthologies:\u00a0The Caribbean Writer,\u00a0Smartish\u00a0Pace, Phoebe,\u00a0Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism;\u00a0Mozayik: Yon Konbit Liter\u00e8<\/em> \u2014a groundbreaking anthology in Haitian Krey\u00f2l; The Butterfly\u2019s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States,\u00a0Haiti Noir I, and Haiti Noir II<\/em>\u2014edited by celebrated Haitian Author, Edwidge Danticat.\u00a0Ulysse served as Goucher College\u2019s Spring 2017 Kratz Writer in Residence, where she taught advanced creative writing.\u00a0She has written two books for children. She is currently at work on another short story collection.\u00a0Mouths Don\u2019t Speak<\/em>\u00a0is her first novel.<\/p>\n

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These authors will discuss issues including the Caribbean and its diaspora, method, feminism, and gender in their work. The conversation with be followed by a moderated discussion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4664,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-4646","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/4646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/4646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4665,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/4646\/revisions\/4665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}