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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Billy-Ray Belcourt and A History of My Brief Body
DESCRIPTION:Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard\, Alberta\, and on the Driftpile First Nation. From there\, it expands to encompass the big and broken world around him\, in all its complexity and contradictions: a legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it\, first loves and first loves lost\, sexual exploration and intimacy\, and the act of writing as a survival instinct and a way to grieve. What emerges is not only a profound meditation on memory\, gender\, anger\, shame\, and ecstasy\, but also the outline of a way forward. With startling honesty\, and in a voice distinctly and assuredly his own\, Belcourt situates his life experiences within a constellation of seminal queer texts\, among which this book is sure to earn its place. Eye-opening\, intensely emotional\, and excessively quotable\, A History of My Brief Body demonstrates over and over again the power of words to both devastate and console us. In conversation with writer and professor Greg Sarris. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live at Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org! \n\n\n\nModerators \n\n \nGreg Sarris\nGreg Sarris received his Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University\, where he was awarded the Walter Gore Award for excellence in teaching. He has published several books\, including Grand Avenue (1994)\, an award-winning collection of short stories\, which he adapted… Read More →\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nBilly-Ray Belcourt\nBilly-Ray Belcourt is from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is Canada’s first First Nations Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of the poetry collections NDN Coping Mechanisms and This Wound Is a World\, which was awarded the 2018 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize\, the 2018 Robert Kroetsch… Read More →
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Jesse Wegman\, Let the People Pick the President
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a timely online event with Jesse Wegman who will be in conversation with Ryan Coonerty about his new book\, Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College.  \nTwo of the last five presidential elections have been won by the candidate who lost the popular vote\, calling the integrity of America’s entire electoral system into question. Political passions are already high\, and they will reach a boiling point as we enter the 2020 race. The message from the American people is clear: we need major reform\, and we need it now. In Let the People Pick the President\, New York Times editorial board member Jesse Wegman makes a powerful case for choosing presidents based on a national popular vote. In this compact\, deeply researched\, highly readable history of the Electoral College\, he describes its controversial origins\, profiles some of the more than 700 efforts to abolish or reform it over the years\, and explains why it is now essential for us to revamp this obsolete system and finally make every citizen’s vote matter. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \n“Jesse Wegman is a shrewd analyst\, brilliant researcher and passionate writer\, and here he tackles an issue important to our system’s legitimacy.” —Nicholas Kristoff \n“People have been arguing against the Electoral College from the beginning. But no one\, at least in recent years\, has laid out the case as comprehensively and as readably as Jesse Wegman does in Let the People Pick the President.” —Josh Chafetz\, New York Times Book Review \nJesse Wegman has been a member of the New York Times editorial board since 2013\, writing editorials on the Supreme Court and legal affairs. He was previously a senior editor at the Daily Beast and Newsweek\, a legal news editor at Reuters\, and the managing editor of the New York Observer. He graduated from New York University School of Law in 2005. \nRyan Coonerty is a member of the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors\, a two-time former Mayor of the City of Santa Cruz\, and a longtime lecturer in the Legal Studies program at UC Santa Cruz. He is the host of the podcast “An Honorable Profession.”
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