About this Event
Book talk on Menah Pratt's newly released book, Blackwildgirl: A Writer's Journey to Take Back Her Superpower, and the companion journal, Finding our Superpower.
How can we identify our superpower—our wisdom that is within? This book talk and workshop explores the power of writing to discover and unearth our often hidden and silenced voices.
Since we rarely have spaces and forums to talk about and think about our journeys, this workshop creates a space for us to reflect on our Blackwildgirl--that little Black girl--that has become a Black woman in America. It will be a space for conversation and discussion about our superpowers and how we can find and discover our superpower through journaling.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Blackwildgirl: A Writer’s Journey to Take Back Her Superpower is a 45-year journey, based on 45 years of journals. Blackwildgirl is a book about bargains and how we respond to them. Our lives are often shaped by bargains, some made with our consent, most without. These bargains often involve the loss of some essential element of our being. Those who are courageous undertake initiation journeys to recover what was lost in the bargain so that we can fulfill our destinies and purpose in life. Inspired by Alice Walker’s journals, Jasmine Mans’ poetry, bell hooks’ black girlhood story, Audre Lorde’s biomythography, Nikki Giovanni’s poems, Maya Angelou’s autobiographies, and Clarissa Pinkola Estes’ indigenous stories, Blackwildgirl is a deeply reflective autobiography of acts, stages, scenes, and letters to Love beginning at the age of eight. It chronicles a journey from girlhood to womanhood through a twelve-stage initiation journey. Journey and journal along to find your own superpower in the Blackwildgirl Companion Journal.
Purchase the book here.
Purchase the companion journal here.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Menah Pratt is the Vice President for Strategic Affairs and Diversity and Professor of Education at Virginia Tech. She has almost 25 years of leadership experience in higher education, with a focus on large-scale institutional transformation, including previously serving at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Vanderbilt University. A licensed attorney, she has five degrees, including a bachelor’s degree and master's degree from the University of Iowa, and a master's degree, a PhD, and a JD, from Vanderbilt. A writer, poet, public speaker, creative artist, scholar-activist, academic advocate, and blogger, her life’s work reflects a commitment to helping others actualize their potential to serve humanity.
AGENDA
6:00PM Welcome to MATTER
6:30PM Dr. Menah Pratt reads and responds to Q&A from the audience.
7:30PM Book Signing
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Shop at MATTER, 2114 Market Street, Denver, United States
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