[ May 7, 2015 6:00 pm to May 9, 2015 5:00 pm. ] For Full Details
“Our Daily Bread: Women’s Stories of Food and Resilience” May 7 – 9, 2015
The fourth annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium will be held Thursday May 7, 2015, through Saturday May 9, 2015. Diana Abu-Jaber (Crescent; The Language of Baklava; Birds of Paradise) is the keynote author and will be joined by […]
Category: NW Women Writers Symposium
Breeze Harper’s Kale Smoothie Recipe for “Racial Tension Headaches in a ‘Post-Racial’ USA”
From the ASUO Women Center’s recent issue of The Siren, here’s a Kale Smoothie Recipe for “Racial Tension Headaches in a ‘Post-Racial’ USA” from Dr. Amie “Breeze” Harper, who will be delivering a lecture, participating in a panel discussion, and leading a workshop at the CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium, which runs May 7 – […]
Dr. Breeze Harper to talk about “Scars of Suffering and Healing: A Black Feminist Vegan Perspective on Writing, Race, and Neoliberal Whiteness”
[ May 8, 2015; 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_20551" align="alignright" width="257"] Breeze Harper[/caption]
UO campus
Gerlinger Alumni Lounge
1468 University St.
A. Breeze Harper, editor of the anthology Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak On Food, Identity, Health, and Society, and the author of the social justice novel Scars: A Black Lesbian Experience in Rural White New England (2014) will talk about her writing and activism. […]
NWWS: 2015 Northwest Women Writers Symposium, Saturday Panel & Workshops
[ May 9, 2015; 9:30 am to 5:00 pm. ] Eugene Public Library
100 W. 10th St. (10th and Olive)
Eugene, OR
For a full listing of panels, workshops and other events, go to: http://csws.uoregon.edu/events-2/2014-nwws/csws-northwest-women-writers-symposium-2015/
The fourth annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium “Our Daily Bread: Women’s Stories of Food and Resilience,” will be held Thursday May 7, 2015, through Saturday May 9, 2015. Diana Abu-Jaber (Crescent; The Language […]
NWWS: A reading and talk by bestselling “Farm City” author Novella Carpenter
[ May 9, 2015; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_20199" align="alignright" width="200"] Novella Carpenter[/caption]
Eugene Public Library
100 W. 10th St. (10th and Olive)
Eugene, OR
Best-selling journalist and memoirist Novella Carpenter will read from and talk about her books including her urban farm experience in downtown Oakland, California. Carpenter is the author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer and Gone Feral: Tracking My […]
NWWS: Reading & talk with writer Diana Abu-Jaber
[ May 7, 2015; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_19883" align="alignright" width="176"] Diana Abu-Jaber / photo by Scott Eason[/caption]
Eugene Public Library
100 W. 10th St.
Eugene, OR 97401
Radio interview with KLCC, May 7: http://klcc.org/post/womens-stories-food-and-resilience-diana-abu-jaber
Radio interview with Jefferson Public Radio, May 6: http://ijpr.org/post/diana-abu-jaber-large
“Food is such a great human connector; it’s so intimate. And Middle Eastern food, when it’s done well, is amazing. I thought…let the food […]
