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SUMMARY:Word Up Recirculation - Barnard Center for Research on Women: The Elsewhere is Black
DESCRIPTION:Join BCRW for an exciting book salon honoring Marisa Solomon’s \nThe Elsewhere is Black: Ecological Violence and Improvised Life! \nJoin us for an exciting book salon in celebration of Barnard Assistant Professor of Women’s\, Gender\, Sexuality Studies Marisa Solomon’s The Elsewhere Is Black: Ecological Violence and Improvised Life with J.T. Roane (Geography\, Rutgers) and Mon M.\, moderated by C. Riley Snorton (English & Comparative Literature and ISSG\, Columbia). \nIn The Elsewhere Is Black\, Solomon examines how waste is a mundane part of poor Black survival and a condition of settler colonial racial capitalism. Tracing the flow of trash and waste across Black spaces\, from Brooklyn’s historically Black Bedford-Stuyvesant to the post-plantation towns of Virginia’s Tidewater\, Solomon contends that waste infrastructures concentrate environmental risk in an elsewhere that is routinely Black. \nShe theorizes the relationship between the devaluation of land and Black and more-than-human life to reveal how the risks of poisoning\, police violence\, dispossession\, and poverty hold Black life captive. Highlighting the creativity and resilience that emerge amid these conditions\, Solomon\, Roane and Monhapatra will invite us to consider collaborative conversations across new eco-political possibilities that center the book’s fundamental ask: What forms of environmentalism arise when Black un/freedom has always been entangled with waste? \nAdditional information is available on the BCRW event page.\nMarisa Solomon is an Assistant Professor of Women’s\, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College\, Columbia University\, where she teaches courses in feminist intersectional science studies\, abolitionist ecologies\, Black geographies\, feminist theory and queer of color critique. Her new book\, The Elsewhere is Black: Ecological Violence and Improvised Life (Duke University Press 2025)\, which received Duke University Press’s Scholar of Color First Book Award\, considers ecological politics from the position of criminalized Black dispossession. In so doing\, The Elsewhere Is Black examines how waste is a mundane part of poor Black survival and a condition of settler colonial racial capitalism in the U.S. Locating Black survival as a site from which alternative eco-political imaginations spring\, she foregrounds how people live and dream amidst waste’s daily accumulation. Solomon opens new ecological horizons to ask: What forms of environmentalism emerge when Black un/freedom has never been distant from waste? \nShe has written a number of articles on the relationship between waste and Black life including “The Ghetto is a Gold Mine” for the Journal of Labor and Working-Class History and “Ecologies Elsewhere” for GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies\, and “Living with Harm” forthcoming in Scholar and Feminist Online. Her work also appears in a number of edited volumes\, including Waste as Critique (Oxford University Press)\, Black Environmentalisms (forthcoming with Duke University Press)\, The Politics of Disposability: Discard Studies in an Era of Devaluation (also forthcoming with Duke) as well as in a compilation of essays for the 2023 Venice Biennial on Everlasting Plastics. She is currently the director of Barnard’s interdisciplinary Race and Ethnic Studies Minor (ICORE/MORE)\, an editorial board member of Women’s Studies Quarterly (WSQ) and Scholar and Feminist Online and the former co-director of the Black Atlantic Ecologies Working Group at the Columbia Center for the Study of Social Difference\, where she was affiliated with the Earth Institute. \nMon M. (they/she) is a spadeworker and propagandist from India\, based in New York City. Mon’s work focuses on challenging and interrupting carceral expansion in the US\, and beyond\, through community and cultural organizing across experiences of gender\, migration\, and disability. Their writing explores internationalist anti-caste and feminist solidarities\, as well as techniques of organizing within and against the scourge of authoritarian violence while resisting reformist and liberal capture. \nC. Riley Snorton is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and jointly appointed with the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender at Columbia University. As a cultural theorist\, his work focuses on racial\, sexual\, and transgender histories and cultural productions in Africa and the Diaspora. He is the author of Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low (University of Minnesota Press\, 2014) and Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (University of Minnesota Press\, 2017)\, winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association\, the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association\, the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction\, the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies\, and an honorable mention from the American Library Association Stonewall Book Award Committee. Snorton is a co-editor of Saturation: Race\, Art and the Circulation of Value (MIT Press/New Museum\, 2020) with Hentyle Yapp and The Flesh of the Matter: A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers (Vanderbilt University Press\, 2024) with Margo Natalie Crawford. He also co-authored the book\, A Black Queer History of the United States (Beacon Press\, 2026) with Darius Bost. Snorton is currently working on his third single-author monograph\, Black Trans Matters\, which extends and proffers theories\, practices\, and material reflections on global black trans life. Working at the conjuncture of Black ecocriticism and trans studies\, Black Trans Matters engages with questions of historicity\, extraction\, representability\, and transformation. \nJ.T. Roane is author of the award winning book Dark Agoras Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place (NYU 2023). He is assistant professor of Africana Studies and Geography and co-directs the Black Ecologies Lab at Rutgers. Roane serves on the board for an Indigenous and Black led food and environmental justice organization in Virginia’s Tidewater\, Just Harvest. \nCo-sponsored by Barnard’s Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies department.
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LOCATION:Word Up Recirculation\, 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Word Up: Robert Snyder's WHEN THE CITY STOPPED with Led Black and Dave Crenshaw
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, December 6\, 2025 – 4:00pm to 5:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWord Up Community Bookshop / Librería Comunitaria\n2113 Amsterdam Ave. & 165th St.\n\nNew York\, NY 10032\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nWord Up welcomes Manhattan Borough Historian Robert W. Snyder to discuss When the City Stopped: Stories from New York’s Essential Workers with Uptown civic leaders Led Black and Dave Crenshaw. \n“The real-life experiences of New Yorkers during the COVID-19 outbreak are at the heart of this collection of as-told-to stories. Snyder highlights the actions\, big and small\, that people took to help the city survive\, including medical personnel who collaborated across hospitals to find health-care solutions\, and bus drivers who stayed on their routes.” —The New Yorker \nThis event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 30 max attendees. Please register in advance. \nIn compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines\, all attendees for this event must wear a mask inside. \nWord Up Community Bookshop is located at 2113 Amsterdam Ave. (& 165th St.) in Washington Heights\, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 168th St and the A/C train to 163rd or 168th  St. \nABOUT THE BOOK\nIn When the City Stopped\, Robert Snyder tells the story of COVID-19 in the words of ordinary New Yorkers\, illuminating the fear and uncertainty of life in the early weeks and months\, as well as the solidarity that sustained the city. New Yorkers were “alone together\,” separated by the protective measures of social distancing and the fundamental inequalities of life and work in New York City. Through their personal accounts\, we see that while many worked from home\, others knowingly exposed themselves to the dangers of the pandemic as they drove buses\, ran subways\, answered 911 calls\, tended to the sick\, and made and delivered meals. \nSnyder builds bridges of knowledge and empathy between those who bore dangerous burdens and those who lived in relative safety. The story is told through the words of health care workers\, grocery clerks\, transit workers\, and community activists who recount their experiences in poems\, first-person narratives\, and interviews. When the City Stopped preserves for future generations what it was like to be in New York when it was at the center of the pandemic. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nRobert W. Snyder is Manhattan Borough Historian and professor emeritus of American Studies and Journalism at Rutgers University. His books include Crossing Broadway and Transit Talk.
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LOCATION:Word Up Community Bookshop\, 2113 Amsterdam Ave at 165th St.\, New York\, NY\, 10032\, United States
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SUMMARY:Word Up: The Afterlives of Bestselling 18th-century Novelist Marie Jeanne Riccoboni - A Conversation Between Translators
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, December 5\, 2025 – 4:30pm to 6:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWord Up Community Bookshop / Librería Comunitaria\n2113 Amsterdam Ave. & 165th St.\n\nNew York\, NY 10032\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nMarie-Jeanne Riccoboni was a bestselling 18th-Century writer—one of the first female authors who managed to finance an independent life away from her abusive husband thanks to her writing. Her novels explore the impossible choices that women in pre-Revolutionary France faced. Translators Kate Deimling and Karen Santos Da Silva will discuss Riccobboni’s protofeminism\, unique style\, and the challenges of rendering her prose for modern English-language readers. \nThis event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 50 max attendees. Please register in advance. \nIn compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines\, all attendees for this event must wear a mask inside. \nWord Up Community Bookshop/Libreria Communitaria is located at 2113 Amsterdam Avenue (corner of 165th Street) in Manhattan. Subways: A\, C or #1 train to 168th Street (walk south to 165th St\, turn left\, then walk east to Amsterdam Avenue).
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LOCATION:Word Up Community Bookshop\, 2113 Amsterdam Ave at 165th St.\, New York\, NY\, 10032\, United States
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SUMMARY:Castle Village Community Room: Book Talk “Every Day Is Sunday” by Ken Belson
DESCRIPTION:Ever Wonder How Football Became Our Favorite Sport? \nKen Belson\, veteran New York Times reporter and CV resident\, will discuss his new book “Every Day Is Sunday”\, on Sunday\, November 9\, at 4:00 PM in the Community Room.  “Every Day Is Sunday” is an in-depth look at the business of pro football.  Specifically\, Ken hones in on the fascinating roster of characters who have made the NFL the economic and cultural super power it is.  With annual revenues of $23 billion\, the NFL’s revenues are comparable to those of Fortune 500 companies like Colgate-Palmolive and Goodyear Tires. \nIn an expansive and favorable review of “Every Day Is Sunday”\, the New York Times summed it up by saying \n“His unique access and firm grasp of football culture have produced “Every Day is Sunday”\, a polished\, entertaining account of what he aptly calls “an immensely profitable American religion.” \nMary Darcy\, CV resident\, WMHT and nationally syndicated radio host\, will moderate.  Please join us: \nWhen:          Sunday\, November 9 \nWhere:         CV Community Room \nFREE to Castle Village residents \n  \nBooks Will Be Available For Purchase
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/castle-village-community-room-book-talk-every-day-is-sunday-by-ken-belson/
LOCATION:Castle Village Annex Community Room\, 110 Cabrini Blvd.\, New York\, NY\, 10033\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop,Written Word
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SUMMARY:Bruce's Garden Summer Readings
DESCRIPTION:Julie Salamon\nThe Ghosts of Tenth Avenue\nNoted author Julie Salamon https://juliesalamon.com/ will discuss her forthcoming book\, The Ghosts of Tenth Avenue (The Penguin Press\, 2026.)  Along with being an accomplished author of numerous books including including New York Times best-seller\, Wendy and the Lost Boys\, a biography of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein\, (The Penguin Press\, 2011) Julie is also chair of the Board of Directors of the  non-profit Bowery Residents Committee aka BRC. \nPresently\, the BRC is building the women’s shelter on Tenth Avenue and 212th street. When they learned that early maps showed their building’s site had been a cemetery for enslaved people\, the board decided to include a memorial into the shelter’s design. Julie began her research.
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/bruces-garden-summer-readings-2/
LOCATION:Bruce Reynolds Memorial Garden\, Across from 10 Park Terrace EAST\, near W. 215 St.\, New York\, NY\, 10034\, United States
CATEGORIES:Spoken Word,Written Word
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SUMMARY:Word Up at Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center - Book Launch: Cleyvis Natera's THE GRAND PALOMA RESORT with Angie Cruz & Naima Coster
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, August 11\, 2025 – 7:00pm to 8:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDominican Alliance Cultural Center\n530 W 166th St\n\nNew York \, NY 10032\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nWord Up and Dominican Writers Association celebrate the launch of Cleyvis Natera’s The Grand Paloma Resort \, about a lush paradise in the Dominican Republic where guests enjoy incredible luxury\, and the staff is always eager to please—that is\, until they are pushed to the brink. Joining Natera in conversation will be authors Angie Cruz ( How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water ) and Naima Coster ( What’s Mine and Yours ).  \nWord Up and the Dominican Writers Association are celebrating the launch of Grand Paloma Resort \, by Cleyvis Natera \, about a lush paradise in the Dominican Republic where guests enjoy incredible luxuries and the staff is always eager to please—but only until they’re pushed to their limits. Natera will be in conversation with authors Angie Cruz ( Cómo no ahogarse en un vaso de agua ) and Naima Coster ( What’s Mine and Yours ). \nThe event will take place at the Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center\, 530 West 166th Street\, New York\, NY\, USA .  \n“With compelling characters and a narrative that steals your breath from the first page\, The Grand Paloma Resort offers an unforgettable\, unexpected story that will upend readers’ assumptions about power\, pleasure\, and moral salvation.”—Xochitl Gonzalez\, author of Olga Dies Dreaming \n“With captivating characters and a narrative that takes your breath away from the first page\, Natera delivers an unforgettable and unexpected story that will upend readers’ assumptions about power\, pleasure\, and moral redemption.” —Xochitl Gonzalez\, author of  Olga Dies Dreaming \nThis event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with a maximum of 100 attendees. Please register in advance . \nABOUT THE BOOK \nLaura is a local Dominican woman who\, through sheer hard work\, has risen through the ranks to become manager at the Grand Paloma Resort. Her idea to pair a “platinum” guest with their own resort employee to attend to their every whim has been wildly successful\, and she’s just weeks away from a promotion that could blaze a path for her off the resort and toward a life of opportunity. If only her younger sister\, Elena—who she’s looked after since the death of their mother—could get with the program. \nElena has tried to live up to her sister’s expectations\, but to escape the drudgery of waiting on rich tourists\, she’s becoming increasingly dependent on pills and partying. As a babysitter at the resort\, she’s at the beck and calls of guests who are indulging their worst impulses and need someone else to watch their kids while they do so. Now\, after an accident\, a child left in her charge is believed dead\, and Elena knows she’ll be held responsible. \nWhen Elena runs into the child’s father at a nearby beachfront watering hole\, he offers her an obscene amount of money for private time with two young local girls. Elena pockets the cash to fund her escape and prays she’s gotten the girls out of harm’s way. But then the girls are reported missing. \nSet over the course of seven days\, The Grand Paloma Resort offers an unforgettable story of class\, family\, and community\, building to an intense climax in which the true costs of luxury are laid bare\, redeemed only by true acts of love. \nLaura is the manager of the Grand Paloma Resort. She’s a Dominican woman who has gotten to where she is through hard work. She’s just weeks away from receiving a promotion that will open the way to new opportunities. But her younger sister\, Elena\, whom she has cared for since their mother’s death\, doesn’t seem to be cooperating. \nElena has done her best to live up to her sister’s expectations. However\, to escape the monotony of serving wealthy tourists\, she has become dependent on pills and partying. As a nanny at the resort\, she is at the mercy of guests who give free rein to their worst impulses and need someone to care for their children in the meantime. After an accident\, a girl in her care is believed to have died\, and Elena knows she will be held responsible. \nAt a beachfront bar\, Elena meets the girl’s father\, who offers her an obscene sum of money so he can be alone with two local girls. Elena stashes the money to fund their escape\, and although she prays nothing happens to them\, the girls disappear. \nSet over seven days\, Grand Paloma Resort delivers an unforgettable story of class\, family\, and community\, building to an intense climax in which the true costs of luxury are revealed\, long-suppressed secrets and true acts of love are exposed. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR About the author\nCleyvis Natera is the author of Neruda on the Park . She was born in the Dominican Republic\, migrated to the United States at ten years old\, and grew up in New York City. She holds a BA from Skidmore College and an MFA from New York University. Her writing has won awards and fellowships from the International Latino Book Awards\, PEN America\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, The Kenyon Review’s Writers Workshops\, the Vermont Studio Center\, the Hermitage Artist Retreat\, Rowland Writers Retreat\, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is currently a Fulbright Specialist. She lives with her husband and two young children in Montclair\, New Jersey. The Grand Paloma Resort is her second novel. \nCleyvis Natera  is the author of ” Neruda on the Park .” She was born in the Dominican Republic\, immigrated to the United States at age ten\, and grew up in New York City. She holds a BA from Skidmore College and an MFA from New York University. Her writing has received awards and fellowships from PEN America\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, The Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshops\, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She lives with her husband and two young children in Montclair\, New Jersey.
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LOCATION:Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center\, 530 W 166th St\, New York\, NY\, 10032\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Fountain Bookshop presents Acting Out !!
DESCRIPTION:Spend the afternoon with us as we present original scenes and excerpts from ‘Acting Out: How a Prison Theatre Workshop Broke Free’ by local author\, Richard Hoehler. \nAll are welcome!!
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LOCATION:Fountain Bookshop\, 803 West 187th Street (Between Pinehurst & Fort Washington)\, New York\, NY\, 10040\, United States
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SUMMARY:Word Up: Families Belong Together\, Families Demand Repair: Reparations for Child Welfare Teach-In
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, March 19\, 2025 – 7:00pm to 8:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWord Up Community Bookshop / Librería Comunitaria\n2113 Amsterdam Ave. & 165th St.\n\nNew York\, NY 10032\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nJoin us at Word Up for a teach-in on learning\, reflection\, and action toward abolition and reparations. We will confront the violent history of family separation\, the ongoing harm of state surveillance\, and the necessity of repair through a 5-point reparations framework. Together\, we will build collective power\, deepen our commitment to liberation\, and take concrete steps toward ending systems of harm. \nThis event is free or a $5 suggested donation to Word Up. Please register in advance.  \nWord Up Community Bookshop/Libreria Communitaria is located at 2113 Amsterdam Avenue (corner of 165th Street) in Manhattan. Subways: A\, C or #1 train to 168th Street (walk south to 165th St\, turn left\, then walk east to Amsterdam Avenue). \nBlack Families Love and Unite (BLU) is an organization dedicated to empowering Black and Brown families through education\, organizing\, and community care. \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\nImani Worthy is a Bronx native whose family was impacted by the child welfare system in 2019. Following this experience\, she pursued advocacy work\, holding roles such as Public Speaking Coordinator at Rise Magazine and Family Advocate at the Center for Family Representation. Imani is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Black Families Love and Unite (BLU)\, an organization dedicated to empowering Black and Brown families and dismantling systems of oppression. She holds an MBA and is deeply committed to holistic and restorative justice practices\, including circle keeping and somatic wellness to create meaningful change for our communities. \nNancy Fortunato\, Senior Family Organizer\, has over 10 years of advocacy and organizing experience as an impacted parent and an expert on systemic racism. She graduated from the Child Welfare Organizing Project and the Institute of Transformative Mentoring at The New School. Nancy has held roles at the East Harlem Community Partnership Program\, the Center for Human Development and Family Services\, and RISE\, where she was promoted to Senior Parent Leader. She is currently a Peer Navigator at Justice For Families. \nCassandra Gonzalez\, Family Organizer with two years of advocacy and organizing experience\, is an Afro Latine parent of two boys who embraces inclusivity and gender diversity. With a passion for cooking and a commitment to empowerment\, Cassandra utilizes their life experiences to support and uplift fellow parents\, reflecting their resilience and compassion.
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/word-up-families-belong-together/
LOCATION:Word Up Community Bookshop\, 2113 Amsterdam Ave at 165th St.\, New York\, NY\, 10032\, United States
CATEGORIES:Virtual Event,Workshop,Written Word
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