Please join us for our next event in the Talakayan at Kapehan Series: Letters to a Young Brown Girl, cosponsored by NAFCON Portland and Whitenoise Project!
How can we challenge and subvert the default condition of invisibility for Pinays and other Filipinx and brown folx? How can we demystify the steps in writing, publishing, fighting that invisibility and claiming our power to speak up and define our identities?
Our second #NAFCONTAK event will feature a poetry reading and discussion about doing the work, about writing and publishing as a brown girl. There will be an opportunity for community Q&A after the reading.
Featuring:
Barbara Jane Reyes
Sarahlynn Pablo
Christian Aldana
Pre-register for a free copy of “Letters to a Young Brown Girl!” for the first 10 registrants. zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAscO2pqjkrHdeIDi0ZjaVF-Z_LwhPW0QWm
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Talakayan is a tagalog word that translates to discussion. This year’s theme aims to inspire our community to start the conversation on how we can build a strong and caring action-oriented network. Each talk story / discussion event, workshop, and panel will identify our next steps as a community, transforming dialogue to action.
Kapehan translates to coffee time which in the Filipino tradition is accompanied by pandesal. Symbolically we hope this workshop awakens our participants and provides the tools for sharpening our understanding and energy for continuous action.
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The Whitenoise Project has been a reading and discussion series in Portland, Oregon since 2017 aiming to center voices from underrepresented communities (Black, Indigenous, PoC, Queer, Femme, WoC and people with disabilities).
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