{"id":8483,"date":"2024-09-05T13:55:51","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T17:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/?post_type=event&p=8483"},"modified":"2025-02-10T14:38:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T19:38:55","slug":"the-fun-of-the-story","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/the-fun-of-the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Way You Make Me Funny"},"content":{"rendered":"

In <\/span>The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown<\/span><\/i>, Nina Sharma chronicles her and her husband Quincy\u2019s love story and, in doing so, examines how their Black and Asian relationship becomes the lens through which she moves through and understands the world. In this lecture, Nina explores how comedy became critical to both understanding and telling this story. How can humor be illuminating?\u00a0 How can humor be feminist? How can humor be intersectional? How can humor help us tell the hard truths?\u00a0 Can we laugh at oppression without laughing it off? The fun of the story is sometimes a good joke and sometimes it\u2019s simply that we\u2019ve lived to tell it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sharma\u2019s work has appeared in <\/span>The New Yorker<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Electric Literature<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Longreads<\/span><\/i>, and <\/span>The Margins<\/span><\/i>. A graduate of the MFA program at Columbia University, she has served as the programs director at the Asian American Writers\u2019 Workshop and currently teaches at Columbia and Barnard Co<\/span>llege. She is a proud cofounder of the all\u2013South Asian women\u2019s improv group Not Your Biwi.<\/span><\/p>\n

ATTEND<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Accessibility<\/strong><\/p>\n

Registration is preferred, not required.\u00a0Open to BC\/CU ID holders, BCRW\u2019s lunchtime lecture series offers scholars and writers an intimate space to discuss new works and works in progress with colleagues and students. Lunch will be provided.<\/span><\/p>\n

Masks will be provided and are required for attendees and speakers except while speaking and eating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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