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  • In Short: Black Femme Transformation in ‘Pemi Aguda’s “Manifest” with Magenta Naaku

    The Center for Fiction 15 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    Can physical and spiritual transformation be essential to Black femme survival, liberation, and pleasure? When does embodiment become an opportunity to shapeshift or possess others? How can rearranging our bodies to better fit our spirits lead to a mortal/supernatural collision? Who are we on the other side of possession? How do we arrange our bodies […]

    $45

  • The Art of the Short Story: Lydia Mathis on Desperate Bodies with Roxane Gay

    The Center for Fiction 15 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    Join us for the launch of Lydia Mathis’s debut story collection, Desperate Bodies, with writer, professor, and publisher Roxane Gay. Set in the American South, Desperate Bodies explores the desire, humor, and horror in the everyday lives of Black women and girls. Through vivid and unflinching prose, Mathis illuminates the madness of the ordinary: an overworked college safety […]

    $10
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