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What Happens When What We Tell Ourselves Changes?
Friday, March 25, 2022
10:35 am to 11:50 am
This nonfiction panel will discuss writing to meet the key of our present moment. Have paradigm shifts related to race, justice, consent, gender, identity, and the pandemic impacted our understandings of life before now, and if so, how do we accept this charge to deepen and expand our work to meet the times? How do we keep writing with imagination, complexity, and grace during periods of cultural transformation? What is the creative nonfiction writer's role in histories still unfolding?
Participants
Barrie Jean Borich is the author of Apocalypse, Darling. Her memoir Body Geographic won a Lambda Literary Award, and her book-length essay My Lesbian Husband won a Stonewall Book Award. She’s a professor at DePaul in Chicago, where she edits Slag Glass City, a journal of the urban essay arts.
Gabrielle Civil is a Black feminist writer, poet, and performance artist. Her texts and translations have appeared in Small Axe, Two Lines, Obsidian, and more. She is the author of Swallow the Fish, Experiments in Joy, (ghost gestures), and the déjà vu. The aim of her work is to open up space.
Cooper Lee Bombardier is the author of Pass with Care, a Firecracker Award finalist. His writing appears in the Malahat Review, the Kenyon Review, CutBank, Foglifter, and in the Lambda Award-winning anthology The Remedy, as well as in Meanwhile, Elsewhere, winner of the ALA Stonewall Book Award.
Aisha Sabatini Sloan is the author of the essay collections The Fluency of Light and Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit, as well as the forthcoming Borealis and Captioning the Archives. She is an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at the University of Michigan.
