F220.
Unmake the Patriarchy of Your Mind
Friday, March 25, 2022
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
For millennia, patriarchal expectations have shaped literature’s socioeconomic context and making. This intersectional panel brings together five award-winning writers who rewrite the patriarchy's impact on our lives and art as Black, Latinx, South Asian, and white women—from persona poems as a Black womanist or in the voice of Baba Yaga, to centering Latinxs in tales of settler colonialism, to poems that confront workplace sexism, to a mother's essays about wringing the toxic from her son.
Participants
Kristen Millares Young is a prizewinning journalist, essayist, and author of the novel Subduction (Red Hen Press). Named a Paris Review staff pick, Subduction won Nautilus and IPPY awards. Kristen reviews books for the Washington Post, and she is the editor of Seismic, a Washington State Book Award finalist.
Alexandra Teague is the author of the novel Or What We’ll Call Desire and two poetry books, The Wise and Foolish Builders and Mortal Geography, as well as coeditor of Bullets into Bells. A former Stegner and NEA fellow, she is a professor at University of Idaho.
Anastacia-Reneé is a queer writer, educator, podcaster, and interdisciplinary artist, She is the author of (v.) and Forget It. Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere and Sidenotes from the Archivist are forthcoming from Amistad.
Laura Read is the author of Dresses from the Old Country, Instructions for My Mother’s Funeral, and The Chewbacca on Hollywood Boulevard Reminds Me of You. She served as poet laureate for Spokane, Washington, from 2015–2017. She teaches English at Spokane Falls Community College.
Sonora Jha is the author of the essay collection How to Raise a Feminist Son: Motherhood, Masculinity, and the Making of My Family and the novel Foreign. Her essays are in the New York Times, Seattle Times, etc. She is a professor of journalism at Seattle University.
