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Chaya Bhuvaneswar in Conversation With Reema Zaman

Powell's Books on Hawthorne 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

From Powell's website: In 16 remarkable stories, Chaya Bhuvaneswar spotlights diverse women of color facing sexual harassment and racial violence, and occasionally inflicting that violence on each other. Winner of the 2017 Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize, White Dancing Elephants (Dzanc) explores feminist, queer, religious, and immigrant stories with precision, drama, and compassion. Bhuvaneswar will be joined in conversation by Reema Zaman, author of the forthcoming memoir, I Am Yours. Preorder a signed edition of White Dancing Elephants

Free

Future Prairie: Queer Variety Show

The Hallowed Halls 4420 SE 64th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Please join the artists of Future Prairie as we dance our way into the new year, drawing from our histories, calling on our past, dredging up what we want to carry forward and honoring what we are ready and wiling to leave behind. Opening invocation by Reema Zaman Musical performances from Joni Renee Whitworth, Maiah Wynne, Layla Laubach, and Whisper Hiss Spoken word by Julia Laxer, Nastashia Minto, Tucker Garcia, Kalong Wong, and Meron Medhanie Lecture by Natalie Rose Baldwin Dance by Evelyn R-w Our show is inspired by the chautauquas of the 19th and early 20th centuries, where people from all walks of life came together to experience education, entertainment, and culture for the whole community, with speakers, teachers, musicians, and entertainers. BYOB Why…

$20

LAUNCH: I Am Yours | Reema Zaman

Wildfang West 404 SW 10th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

The launch of Reema Zaman’s critically-acclaimed memoir, I AM YOURS. Please join Reema, co-hosted by Girls Inc. and Wildfang, for a performance and Q & A. To speak is a revolution. It is time. ❤️

Free

[Postponed] Democratizing Success with Reema Zaman, Feb 8-10

The Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Ave #101, Portland, OR, United States

When: February 8: 7-9PM February 9: 11AM-4PM February 10: 11AM-4PM Cost: $325 (includes a hardcover copy of Reema’s debut memoir I Am Yours, a $25 value) Click here to Apply for a Scholarship Gone are the days of rising only to the limits placed on us by patriarchy and its many institutions and gatekeepers of privilege. It is time to ignite our own revolution. Of words. Of self. Of narrative. Of voice. In Democratizing Success, Reema will share the meticulous strategies she has developed to ignite creative and professional success in her own life, and now, for yours. A workshop that is intimate, spiritual, direct, and highly practical (in essence, like Reema herself), through generative writing exercises, we will begin by identifying the obstacles that previously…

$325