In the aftermath of a messy divorce\, Fran ces Kai-Hwa Wang writes in the hope of beginning to build a new life with four children\, bossy aunties\, unreliable suitors\, and an uncertain poli tical landscape. The lyric essays in You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is In Braids deftly navigate the space between cult ures and reflect on lessons learned from both Asian American elders and yo ung multiracial children\, punctuated by moments rich with cultural and li nguistic nuance. In her prologue\, Wang explains\, &ldquo\;Buddhists say t hat suffering comes from unsatisfied desire\, so for years\, I tried to cl ose the door to desire. I was so successful\, I not only closed the door\, I locked it\, barred it\, nailed it shut\, then stacked a bunch of furnit ure in front of it. And now that door is open\, wide open\, and all my ins ides are spilling out.&rdquo\;
\nFull of current events of the day a nd #HashtagsOfTheMoment\, the topics in the collection are wide-ranging\, including cooking food to show love\, surviving Chinese School\, being an underpaid lecturer\, defending against yellow dildos\, navigating immigrat ion issues\, finding love in a time of elections\, crying with children se parated from their parents at the border\, charting the landscape of fruga l/hoarder elders during the pandemic\, witnessing COVID- inspired anti&nda sh\;Asian American violence while reflecting on the death of Vincent Chin\ , teaching her sixteen-year-old son to drive after the deaths of Trayvon M artin and George Floyd\, and trusting the power of writing herself into ex istence. Within these lyric essays\, some of which are accompanied by artw ork and art installations\, Wang finds the courage and hope to speak out f or herself and for an entire generation of Asian American women.
\nA notable work in the landscape of Asian American literature as well as Mid west and Michigan-based literature\, You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids features a clear and powerful voice th at brings all people together in these political and pandemic times. Click the link below to join!
\n\nFrances Kai-Hwa Wang is an award-winning poet\, essa yist\, journalist\, activist\, scholar focused on issues of Asian America\ , race\, justice\, and the arts. Her writing has appeared in online public ations at PBS NewsHour\, NBCAsianAmerica\, PRIGlobalNation\, Center for As ian American Media\, and Detroit Journalism Cooperative and in Cha: An Asi an Literary Journal\, Kartika Review\, Drunken Boat\, Joao Roque Literary Journal. She co-created multimedia artwork for Smithsonian Asian Pacific A merican Center\, and she is a Knight Arts Challenge Detroit artist.
\n< h4>Moderator Bio\nKatherine Reynolds Lewi s is an award-winning journalist\, author and speaker based in th e Washington D.C. area on topics including parenting\, children\, educatio n\, race\, gender\, disability\, mental health\, technology\, work\, entre preneurship\, and science. Katherine is a co-founder of the Center for Ind ependent Journalists\, supported by a Northwestern Medill-Garage media ent repreneur fellowship\, and the Parenting Journalists Society. She&rsquo\;s a 2021-22 O&rsquo\;Brien Public Service Journalism fellow and 2020-21 MIT Knight Science Journalism fellow\, reporting on the science of racial bia s in pK-12 education. Her award-winning book\, The Good News About Bad Beh avior (PublicAffairs\, April 2018)\, explains why modern kids are so undis ciplined and tells the stories of innovators who are rebuilding lost self- regulation\, resolving family conflict and changing the trajectory of youn g lives. Based on the most-read article ever published by Mother Jones\, t he book documents a new model of discipline for a generation of children w ho are out of control. \; Katherine is a certified parent educator wit h the Parent Encouragement Program in Kensington\, Md.\, and a co-founder of the Parenting in Place masterclass series.
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