I’m excited to be heading to New York City this Saturday March 7th for the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective’s 6th Annual Literary Festival. The theme is “Stranger Love” and I will be participating on a panel of writers, talking about sexuality, race and gender in South Asian writing.
Here are the details:
4:15–5:30pm
Passing Strange: Race, Gender and Sexuality
Panelists consider how their writing reimagines raced, gendered, and sexual identity in unconventional ways.
Abha Dawesar (Family Values, Penguin India 2009)
Farzana Doctor (Stealing Nasreen, Inanna 2007)
Chandra Prasad (On Borrowed Wings: A Novel, Atria 2007)
Moderated by Svati Shah (Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University)
at The New School
6 East 16th Street (at 5th Ave), 9th Floor
New York, NY
FREE
Later the same evening, I’ll be reading from Stealing Nasreen at:
Closing Night Reading
From dating on Craigslist to undiscovered family histories, South Asian women share their own writing on the theme of “stranger love.” Featuring Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Meena Alexander, Abha Dawesar, Farzana Doctor, Minal Hajratwala, S. Mitra Kalita, Yesha Naik, Amy Paul, Bushra Rehman, Zohra Saed, and Purvi Shah.
at Bar 13
35 East 13th Street
New York, NY
$5 at the door
Hope to see you there!
For full schedule, go to www.sawcc.org/events