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SUMMARY:The Importance of Queer Literature
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DESCRIPTION:This Pride Month\, join Aashay Dalvi and SJ Sindu as they disc
 uss the importance of queer literature\, representation and identity. .\nh
 ttps://ideaexchange.libnet.info/event/6571879
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>This program is offered in partnership wit
 h Rad Riot Books and Spectrum\, Waterloo Region&rsquo\;s Rainbow Community
  Space.</p>\n<p><img src="https://ideaexchange.libnet.info/frontend-images
 /editor/ideaexchange/Aashay_Dalvi.jpg" width="160" height="200" alt="" sty
 le="float: left\; margin: 0px 20px 20px 0px\;" />After moving to Canada le
 ss than half a decade\, <strong>Aashay</strong> noticed a lack of represen
 tation in bookstores of Black\, Indigenous and Racialized books. Aashay st
 arted Rad Riot Books as a way to educate readers on anti-racism\, Indigeno
 us and Black solidarity and create a space for queer and racialized newcom
 ers to feel validated. Canada is a country of immigrants. Most Canadian mi
 grants are from countries in Asia\, Africa and South America. It is time f
 or immigrants to feel represented in the literature we consume in Canada. 
 Rad Riot Books is an intentionally curated collection of books that encour
 age readers to diversify and decolonize their bookshelves. Aashay is an ac
 tivist\, community advocate and writer. Their work has been featured in In
 sideWaterloo and Textile: Issue Two. You can learn more about Rad Riot Boo
 ks by following their Instagram @radriotbooks</p>\n<p><strong><img src="ht
 tps://ideaexchange.libnet.info/frontend-images/editor/ideaexchange/The_Imp
 ortance_of_Queer_Literature.jpg" width="175" height="262" alt="" style="fl
 oat: right\; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px\;" />SJ Sindu</strong> is a Tamil d
 iaspora author of two literary novels\, two hybrid chapbooks\, and a forth
 coming graphic novel. Her first novel\, Marriage of a Thousand Lies\, won 
 the Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award and was a Stonewall Honor Book 
 and a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. Sindu&rsquo\;s second novel\, 
 Blue-Skinned Gods\, published in November 2021 by Soho Press has garnered 
 critical acclaim\, and her graphic novel\, Shakti\, is forthcoming from Ha
 rperCollins. Sindu's hybrid fiction and nonfiction chapbook\, I Once Met Y
 ou But You Were Dead\, won the Turnbuckle Chapbook contest and was publish
 ed by Split/Lip Press\, and her hybrid nonfiction and poetry chapbook\, Do
 minant Genes\, won the Black River Chapbook Competition was just published
  this February 2022 by Black Lawrence Press. A 2013 Lambda Literary Fellow
 \, Sindu holds an MA in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln an
 d a PhD in English and Creative Writing from Florida State University. Sin
 du teaches at the University of Toronto Scarborough.</p>\n<p>This is a reg
 istered program on zoom. You only need to register once per viewing device
 .</p>\n<p>This program is part of our PRIDE celebration. You can learn mor
 e about Spectrum and other community PRIDE events at ourspectrum.com</p>\n
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