Name: Book Talk with Camara Lundestad Joof – author of "I Talk About It All the Time"
Start: 2025-09-05T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-05T20:15:00-05:00
Location: 508 W Water St, Decorah, IA 52101-1734, United States

$Book Talk with Camara Lundestad Joof \u2013 author of "I Talk About It All the Time"$

Book Talk with Camara Lundestad Joof – author of "I Talk About It All the Time"
September 5, 2025 | 7-8:15 PM CT
Location: In-Person in Vesterheim Commons and Online on Zoom
Meet author Camara Lundestad Joof at Vesterheim! Dr. Maren Johnson, Luther College’s Associate Professor of Nordic Studies and Torgerson Center for Nordic Studies Director, facilitates a monthly bokprat, discussing Scandinavian authors and Scandinavian life. Join us, online or in person, in September for a discussion with Camara and Maren about the book "I Talk About It All the Time." There will be an opportunity for the in-person and online audiences to ask questions.
This event will be held live in Vesterheim Commons and will be livestreamed for an online audience. Coming in person? Just show up! Attending online? Register for the Zoom link here: https://bit.ly/SeptBokprat25.
In this biting, lyrical memoir, Camara Lundestad Joof, born in Bodø to Norwegian and Gambian parents, shares her experiences as a queer Black Norwegian woman. Joof’s daily encounters belie the myth of a colorblind contemporary Scandinavia. She wrestles with the fickle palimpsest of memory, demanding communion with her readers even as she recognizes her own exhaustion in the face of constantly being asked to educate others. “I regularly decide to quit talking to white people about racism,” writes Joof. Such discussions often feel unproductive, the occasional spark of hope coming at enormous personal cost. But not talking about it is impossible, a betrayal of self. The book is a self-examination as well as societal indictment. It is an open challenge to readers, to hear her as she talks about it, all the time.
📸 by Odin Drønen