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Word Up Recirculation – Reading: WORDS UNWHISPERED by Pamela L. Laskin

Wednesday, December 6, 2023 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm
RECIRCULATION A project of Word Up
876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)
New YorkNY 10032

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Join us for a reading with Pamela L. Laskin for her latest novel Words Unwhispered (Cervena Barva Press 2023).

This event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 50 max attendees. Please register in advance. 

In compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines, all attendees are encouraged to stay masked at all time.

Recirculation, a project of Word Up Community Bookshop, is located at 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.) in Washington Heights, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 157th St., A/C train to 163rd St., and the M4 and M5 to Broadway and 159/160th.

ABOUT THE BOOK

WORDS UNWHISPERED is a book of ghazals written during the pandemic. Why the ghazal? It is a lyric form that expresses sorrow and grief in the best possible way. I would like to think of these poems as songs of sorrow since the beginning of COVID and the subsequent months that followed were times of isolation, loneliness, and enormous despair. In amidst these myriad of feelings were the small moments of grace: watching television indoors with a loved one; a special phone call; dreams of a time when we could all emerge outside of this black box, when our words would spin in the wind, unwhispered.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Pamela L. Laskin is a lecturer in the English Department at City College, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate Children’s Writing, and directs the Poetry Outreach Center. Several of her children’s and poetry books have been published. RONIT AND JAMIL, A Palestinian/Israeli ROMEO AND JULIET in verse was published by Harper Collins in 2017, and was named among the 35 books to have on your radar for 2017. BEA, a picture book, was a finalist for the Katherine Paterson Prize for Children’s Fiction in 2018. She is the winner of the 2018 International Fiction Prize from Leapfrog Press, and WHY NO BHINE, an epistolary novel about the Rohingya Muslims, was published in 2019. The Operating System published a bilingual picture book, MONSTER MARIA, which is about Hurricane Maria, and is being used as a fundraiser for after-school programs in Puerto Rico. Linus Press published MY SECRET WISH about families seeking asylum, and is also being used as a fundraiser for Immigrant Families Together.

10th Anniversary of Leta Hong Fincher’s Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm
RECIRCULATION A project of Word Up
876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)
New YorkNY 10032

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Leta Hong Fincher’s landmark book Leftover Women shone a light on the resurgence of gender inequality in 21st-century China. Ten years on, women in China continue to experience a dramatic rolling back of rights and gains in the increasingly patriarchal political climate of the Xi Jinping era.

Join us for a discussion of Leftover Women, a book that explores the structural discrimination against women and the broader problems with China’s economy, politics, and development that lie behind it. In conversation with the author will be Chinese feminist activists Lü Pin and Maizi Li, moderated by Mona Eltahawy.

This updated edition includes a new preface exploring developments in China in the 10 years since the book’s original publication, including the new “three child policy”, the growth in online feminist and LGBTQ activism and the state’s increasingly repressive moves against dissent.

This event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 50 max attendees. Please register in advance.

In compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines, all attendees are encouraged to stay masked at all times.

Recirculation, a project of Word Up Community Bookshop, is located at 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.) in Washington Heights, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 157th St., A/C train to 163rd St., and the M4 and M5 to Broadway and 159/160th.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR & PRESENTERS

Leta Hong Fincher has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Dissent Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar and others. She won the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award for her China reporting. Leta is the first American to receive a Ph.D. from Tsinghua University’s Department of Sociology in Beijing. She also has a master’s degree in East Asian Studies from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree with high honors in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. Leta’s previous book, Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (2018), was named a Best Book of 2018 by Vanity Fair, Newsweek, Foreign Policy Interrupted, Bitch Media and Autostraddle. The New York Public Library named Betraying Big Brother one of its “essential reads on feminism” in 2020. Leta is currently a Research Associate at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Lü Pin is a feminist organizer, thinker, writer, and PhD candidate at Rutgers University. Founding Editor-in-Chief of Feminist Voices, she is the author of the recent article, How the Thwarted Feminist Movement Gave Birth to a New Generation of Blank Paper Revolutionaries.

Li Tingting, also known as Li Maizi, is a Chinese Queer Feminist Activist and a member of the China Feminist Five. She is internationally recognized as one of Foreign Policy’s 100 global thinkers and one of the BBC’s 100 women in 2015. She is currently based in New York.

Mona Eltahawy is a feminist author, commentator, and Disruptors of patriarchy. She is founder and editor-in-chief of the newsletter FEMINIST GIANT. Her opinion essays have appeared in media across the world. Her first book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution (2105) targeted patriarchy in the Middle East and North Africa and her second The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls (2019) took that disruption worldwide. She is a contributor to the recent anthology This Arab is Queer and is editing the anthology Bloody Hell! And Other Stories: Adventures in Menopause from Across the Personal and Political Spectrums.


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ACCESSIBILITY: Recirculation is a wheelchair-accessible space with one ramp from the street level down to the store. Most of the shelves are on wheels and can be moved to provide additional access. The bathrooms are not yet ADA compliant and do not yet have a changing table but are gender neutral. The events are mic’d for sound and videos are captioned when possible. Free ASL interpretation is available for most programs upon request. Please email events@wordupbooks.com to request interpretation as early as possible. If you have specific questions about the space or how an event can be made more accessible to you, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@wordupbooks.com.

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Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, 10th Anniversary Edition (Asian Arguments) By Leta Hong Fincher, Paul French (Editor) Cover Image
$22.95
ISBN: 9781350323636
Availability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Bloomsbury Academic – November 30th, 2023

The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls By Mona Eltahawy Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9780807002582
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Beacon Press – September 15th, 2020

Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution By Mona Eltahawy Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780374536657
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux – May 10th, 2016

Word Up Recirculation – Strings of WHCO

Enjoy an hour-long performance by string players of WHCO and browse the bookshelves at Word Up’s Recirculation for “pay what you can” books and records. Spoken remarks in both Spanish and English. Suggested donation: $5
Featuring string players from WHCO:
Mark Chien, violin (Concertmaster)
Ashley Windle, violin (Assistant concertmaster)
Jay Julio, viola
Rocío Díaz de Cossío, cello
Selections from:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Opus 18, No. 1
Joseph Haydn: Op 3, No. 5
George Walker: Lyric for Strings
Teresa Carreña: String Quartet in B Minor
Antonín Dvořák: String Quartet in F Major “American”

Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice with Sonali Kolhakar Workshop

Friday, October 20, 2023 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm
RECIRCULATION A project of Word Up
876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)
New YorkNY 10032

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Award-winning multimedia journalist and author Sonali Kolhatkar leads a workshop for nonprofit organizers, communicators, publicists, and storytellers about building narrative power to further racial justice.  Kolhatkar will lead a discussion on the importance of understanding the impact of narratives on racial justice, how to identify and interrogate existing racist narratives in popular culture and news media, and how to build narrative power as a critical component of organizing to further racial justice.

Kolhakar’s new book Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice is a timely exploration of how truthful narratives by and about people of color can be used to advance social justice in the United States.

Sonali Kolhatkar reminds us we are the stories we tell. Our stories can cast a spell of hate, division, and fear, or they can break the powerful grip of racial injustices that have held us since our country’s beginning. With personal and collective wisdom, Kolhatkar guides us in the storytelling that liberates.”

–Luis J. Rodriguez, author of Always Running: La Vida Loco/Gang Days in L.A.

This event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 50 max attendees. Please register in advance. 

In compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines, all attendees are encouraged to stay masked at all time.

Recirculation, a project of Word Up Community Bookshop, is located at 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.) in Washington Heights, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 157th St., A/C train to 163rd St., and the M4 and M5 to Broadway and 159/160th.

ABOUT THE BOOK

While people of color are fast becoming the majority population in the United States, the perspectives of white America still dominate the vast majority of the media created and consumed every day. Media makers of color, long shut out of the decision-making process, are rising up to advance a set of different narratives, offering stories and perspectives to counter the racism and disinformation that have long dominated America’s political and cultural landscape.

In Rising Up, award-winning journalist Sonali Kolhatkar delivers a guide to racial justice narrative-setting. With a focus on shifting perspectives in news media, entertainment, and individual discourse, she highlights the writers, creators, educators, and influencers who are successfully building a culture of affirmation and inclusion.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sonali Kolhatkar is the host and producer of Rising Up with Sonali, a weekly television and radio program that airs on Free Speech TV and on Pacifica Radio station affiliates around the United States. Winner of numerous awards, including Best TV Anchor and Best National Political Commentary from the LA Press Club, she is currently the Racial Justice editor at Yes! Magazine and a Writing Fellow with the Independent Media Institute. Co-author of Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence with Jim Ingalls, Kolhatkar is Co-Director of the Afghan Women’s Mission. She resides with her husband and two sons in Pasadena, California.

Comics & Storytelling Workshop for Teens with Gabriel Castillo (Recirculation)

Wednesday, September 27, 2023 – 6:30pm to Wednesday, October 18, 2023 – 8:30pm
RECIRCULATION A project of Word Up
876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)
New YorkNY 10032

 

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Teen workshop to learn cartooning and storytelling with world-championship manga artist Gabriel Castillo. The classes are focused on developing your creativity and drawing skills and learning the tools to design unique characters and visualize imaginary worlds.
Date: Wednesdays, September 27 until October 18
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Location: Recirculation, a project of Word Up 876 Riverside Drive @ 160th St. New York, NY 10032
Age: 10-17
Content: basic storytelling structure, geometric drawing process, paneling design, and storyboard knowledge
Gabriel Castillo is a Dominican artist based in New York, working as an illustrator, painter, and creative director, specializing in the development of comics and graphic novels, animation, and concept art for cinema. Gabriel is the founder and creative director of LITEVISUAL, a studio of illustrators and designers specializing in the production of literature and graphics novels, and is the writer and illustrator of PALMA SOLA Liborio Mateo, El Origen, published by DWA Press.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Word Up Community Bookshop’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.