Fem Book Club – Girl, Woman, Other (Online)
Jun 17, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Fem Book Club - Girl, Woman, Other (Online)
Due to COVID-19, this event will take place online via Zoom.
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Fem Book Club is an introduction to a diverse range of texts by women about women. Through informal conversation about each text we will focus on the manifold experiences of being a woman through different moments in history and across varying communities. It is an opportunity to think about and challenge what it means to be a woman and perhaps undermine any assumed universal experience by looking at how people of colour, transgender and non-binary identifying writers, or those who suffer with mental health issues have vastly different experiences of ‘feminism’ or what it is to be a ‘woman’.
This is a welcoming and safe space. We encourage participation from LGBTI women, men, trans and gender diverse persons and non-binary persons.
Boffins is our preferred bookseller! Support your local book store and grab your copy of this text from Boffins. Mention Centre for Stories for 10% off!
During this session of Fem Book Club, we’ll be discussing Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other.
Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people.
Winner of the Booker Prize 2019.
Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet.
Winsome is a young Windrush bride, recently arrived from Barbados.
Amma is the fierce queen of her 1980s squatters’ palace.
Morgan, who used to be Megan, is blowing up on social media, the newest activist-influencer on the block.
Twelve very different people, mostly black and female, more than a hundred years of change, and one sweeping, vibrant, glorious portrait of contemporary Britain. Bernardine Evaristo presents a gloriously new kind of history for this old country: ever-dynamic, ever-expanding and utterly irresistible.
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