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Saturday, October 19 • 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Trauma, Tresses, and Truth: Untanging Our Hair Through Personal Narrative

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Natural hair, whether in the form of braids, afros, dreadlocks, or other natural styles, has always been political. Panelists read about true-life experiences impacted by their hair, illuminating the absurdity of trying to enforce white hair-care grooming standards on African American women.
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Lizette Wanzer

Author, Authors Guild
Lyzette Wanzer's work appears in over twenty-five literary journals and books, and she is a contributor to The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prize-winning Essays (Wyatt-MacKenzie), The Naked Truth, Essay Daily, and San Francisco University High School Journal. A three-time San Francisco... Read More →

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Lyndsey Ellis

Lyndsey Ellis is a fiction writer, essayist and editor who's passionate about exploring intergenerational struggles and resiliency in the Midwest. She's a 2018 recipient of a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and 2016 recipient of the San Francisco Foundation's Joseph Henry... Read More →
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Rose Heredia

Rose Heredia is Dominican-American and from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco. She is a VONA/Voices alum, has read at the InsideStoryTime series, The Racket at Adobe Books, Lit Crawl 2016, Lit Crawl 2017, and... Read More →

Saturday October 19, 2019 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Artillery AG 2751 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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