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Unconventional Bodies Now: An Intersectional Reading
Saturday, March 26, 2022
9:00 am to 10:00 am
Join us for a poetry reading in celebration of bodies deemed unconventional by everyday society. This reading will feature five award-winning published authors living with varying physical and mental intersections and ranging identities as Black, Salvadoran, Mexican, Iranian American, and Indian American writers. Come witness how the body works as a poetic tool to liberate, reinstate power, and, most importantly, return to self-love.
Participants
Karla Cordero is a descendant of the Chichimeca peoples and a Chicana poet, educator, and ARTivist. She has been offered fellowships from VONA, Macondo, CantoMundo, the Loft Literary Center, and Pink Door. She is the author of the poetry collection How to Pull Apart the Earth.
Yesika Salgado is a Los Angeles-based Salvadoran poet who writes about her culture and her fat brown body. She is the recipient of the 2020 International Latino Book Award in Poetry, writer of the column Suelta for Remezcla, and author of the best-sellers Corazón, Tesoro, and Hermosa.
Edwin Anthony Bodney is a Black, queer, nonbinary writer and educator with a direct eye for vulnerability and nostalgia of the heart. Their works have been featured in publications from Platypus Press, Not A Cult Press, and the largest LGBTQ+ magazine in the country, the Advocate.
Aman Batra
