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Mikki Kendall

Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women That a Movement Forgot

Author Talk: Oct. 22, 2020

Sonali Dev Recipe for Persuasion

Author Talk: Nov. 19, 2020

Riva Lehrer Golem Girl

Author Talk: Dec. 17, 2020

Emil Ferris My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

Author Talk: Jan. 28, 2021

Eve Ewing

1919

Author Talk: Feb. 25, 2021

Nnedi Okorafor Remote Control

Author Talk: Mar. 25, 2021

Natalie Moore

The South Side

Author Talk: Apr. 22, 2021

Rebecca Makkai

The Great Believers

Author Talk: May 26, 2021

Fatimah Asghar

If They Come for Us

Author Talk: June 24, 2021

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Kayla Ancrum Darling

Author Talk: July 22, 2021

Jessica Hopper (TBD)

Author Talk: Aug. 26, 2021

Precious Brady-Davis I Have Always Been Me: A Memoir

Author Talk: Sep. 23, 2021

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Asghar Author Sujay Kumar Moderator

Fatimah Asghar is a poet, filmmaker, educator, and performer. Her work has appeared in many journals, including POETRY Magazine, Gulf Coast, BuzzFeed Reader, The Margins, The Offing, Academy of American Poets, and many others. Her work has been featured in outlets like Al Jazeera, Elle, W Magazine, The Atlantic, PBS, NPR, Time, Teen Vogue, Huffington Post, and others. She is the writer and co-creator of Brown Girls, an Emmy-nominated web series that highlights friendships between women of color. In 2017, she was awarded the Ruth Lily and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and was featured on the 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Asghar’s debut book of poems, If They Come For Us, was released by One World/Random House in August 2018 to much acclaim. Along with Safia Elhillo, she is the editor of Halal If You Hear Me, an anthology that celebrates Muslim writers who are also women, queer, gender nonconforming, and/or trans. She is a frequent collaborator with singer/ songwriter Jamila Woods, directing music videos for “Eartha” and “SULA (Paperback).” Asghar directed Jidenna’s “Sufi Woman” as well as wrote and directed her first narrative piece, a short film titled Got Game? that was released in May 2020.

Sujay Kumar is co-editor in chief of the Chicago Reader. He also fact checks for Columbia Global Reports. He previously edited at The Daily Beast, Newsweek, and Fusion.

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