September 2, 2017
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Brown People Don’t Read?
Leg Three | 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM | AU Lounge

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Event Description

Brown People Don’t Read? is about literary diversity.  With the title we challenge the notion that brown stories don’t matter, that literature is only for the center of American consciousness, and challenge communities of color to be more involved, which through our performance, we are for a brief time. 

Curator: Sunday Stories

Sunday Stories is a writing group born in the East Bay in 2008 at Mills College.  We are Scott Duncan, Lisa Gray, Jenny Irizary, and Blanca Torres-Aldana.  We meet Sundays.​

Event Readers

Jenny Irizary

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Jenny Irizary holds a literature MA from Mills College. A neurotic Swede—Rican from the Russian River wine country, she now lives in Oakland.Read her published work.

Lisa D. Gray

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Lisa Gray writes about growing up black in post—civil rights America. She won a 2013 SF Foundation Literary Prize and is a SF Grotto Fellow. http://randomnessofme.tumblr.com/

Scott Russell Duncan

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Scott Russell Duncan is a Chicano writer with the whitest name in America. His novel The Ramona Diary of SRD is about Spanish California.



Blanca Torres-Aldana

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Blanca Torres is a San Francisco-based journalist, Mills MFA graduate, memoirist, and fiction writer who writes about family, culture, and identity.

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