Samantha Irby, Keynote Speaker: Women in Media Symposium

May 21, 2019
7:00 pmto8:30 pm

182 Lillis 955 E. 13th Ave. UO campus
For full information about the symposium: https://library.uoregon.edu/women_media_symposium

Samantha Irby

Samantha Irby is a popular comedian and author who writes a blog called Bitches Gotta Eat. Her first book, Meaty, follows Irby through failed relationships, taco feasts, struggles with Crohn’s disease, poverty, blackness and body image. Meaty is currently being adapted for television. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life (2017) quickly cracked the Top 10 on the New York Times Nonfiction Bestseller list.

Cosponsored by: Special Collections and University Archives, the School of Journalism and Communication, the Giustina Family Endowment, the Division of Equity and Inclusion, the Clark Honors College, University Housing, the Oregon Humanities Center, the Center for the Study of Women in Society, the ASUO Women’s Center, the Creative Writing Program, and the departments of Romance Languages, Philosophy, CLLAS, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, English, Comparative Literature, Folklore, Computer and Information Science, Sociology, and Latin American Studies Program.