The Reading for Change \;book club wil l explore Race and Ethnicity Equity and Inclusion (REEI) and the impact of inequity on individuals in our society. In conjunction with the Fairfield County Juvenile Court\, we will expand our \;knowledge of \;syste mic racism \;and intersectional \;social justice \;issues\, ex amine \;how we uphold these systems of inequity\, and identify steps w e can take to combat inequities. We hope to provide an inclusive space to explore meaningful change. We will spend \;two or \;three months&n bsp\;discussing one \;title so \;that we \;have time \;to unpack \;the topics \;in the \;book.
\nJune and July we will read:
\nHeart Berries: A Memoir \;
\nTerese Marie Mai hot
\nA powerful\, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the S eabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized a nd facing a dual diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar I I disorder\; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The result is this book\, a memorial for Mailhot's mother\, a social worker and activist who had a thing for prisoners\; a st ory of reconciliation with her father--an abusive drunk and a brilliant ar tist--who was murdered under mysterious circumstances\; and an elegy on ho w difficult it is to love someone while dragging the long shadows of shame .
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