September 2, 2017
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Brown People Don’t Read?
Leg Three | 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM | 02. 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 grew up broom-fighting drunk bats in a canyon that flooded every year. Read her published work at https://jennyirizary.wordpress.com/

Lisa D. Gray

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Story teller, curator, Lisa Gray wrote One Summer, about 12 girls held prisoner during a civil-rights protest.  She has VONA’d and Grotto’d and won a SF Foundation Literary Prize. 

Scott Russell Duncan

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Scott Russell Duncan’s novel is The Ramona Diary of SRD, a fictional travel diary reclaiming the mythology of Spanish California. Chapters appear in journals and his website at http://scottrussellduncan.com/




Blanca Torres-Aldana

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Blanca Torres writes fiction and memoir and works as an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle Times. She earned an MFA in creative writing from Mills College and a bachelor’s degree in English from Vanderbilt University.

Vernon Keeve III

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Vernon Keeve III is a storyteller from the south, and a west coast trained educator.

April Sinclair

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April Sinclair was born and grew up in Chicago during the times of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. She is the author of Coffee Will Make You Black.

Jackie Luckett

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Jacqueline, a native Californian, lives and writes in Oakland, but takes time out to indulge her love of traveling and to nurture her passion for photography and exotic foods. 

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