Galentine's Day: Romance & Reproductive Rights

This year for Galentine's Day, we have assembled a panel from the romance and academic world to discuss reproducutive rights.

Sip on a signature cocktail and nosh on sweet treats while listening to your favorite authors.

We will have a panel discussion with , , and , moderated by . The authors will be signing books after the panel. This is a ticketed event that includes a drink ticket, nibbles, and a $5 donation to the National Network of Abortion Funds.

To gurantee a signed copy, pre-order books from Adriana Herrera, Joanna Shupe, and Karen Weingarten HERE.

Can't make it? Buy signed books HERE for pick-up or to be shipped!

What your ticket includes:

• $8 off any drink at the bar

• $5 donation to
• Nibbles and nosh

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ADRIANA HERRERA - USA Today Best Selling and Audie-winning author Adriana was born and raised in the Caribbean, but for the last fifteen years has let her job (and her spouse) take her all over the world. She loves writing stories about people who look and sound like her people, getting unapologetic happy endings. The New York Times once called her book "sweet, thoughtful, and delightfully filthy too." When she’s not dreaming up love stories, planning logistically complex vacations with her family or hunting for discouBroadway tickets, she’s a trauma therapist in New York City, working with survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

JOANNA SHUPE has always loved history, ever since she saw her first Schoolhouse Rock cartoon. Her books have appeared on numerous yearly “best of” lists, including Publishers Weekly, Washington Post, Kirkus, Kobo, and BookPage. She lives in New Jersey with her two spirited daughters and opinionated husband. Find Joanna at joannashupe.com.

KAREN WEINGARTEN is Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York. Her edited collection of representations of abortion in American literature before Roe v. Wade is forthcoming with Penguin Classics on March 9. Previously, she published the short book Pregnancy Test with Bloomsbury Press’s Object Lessons series (March 2023). This book describes how the technology of pregnancy testing changed what it meant to be pregnant in the 20th century. Her first book Abortion in the American Imagination: Before Life and Choice, 1880-1940 (Rutgers UP, 2014) presented a genealogy of abortion rhetoric in American literature, film, and popular culture. She’s co-edited special issues and forums for journals like Feminist Studies and Medical Humanities and has published essays on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature, cultural histories of reproduction, and the history of eugenics in both academic and popular journals and platforms.

JAYASHREE KAMBLE , Ph.D., is Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, and serves as the President of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance. She is the author of Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology (Palgrave, 2014) and Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation (Indiana UP, 2023), and a co-editor of The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction (2020). Her recent essay on romance in Godzilla Minus One and Past Lives appears at https://aaari.info/cuny-forum-volume-111/ and you can read an excerpt from her current project on the history of Black and BIPOC/BAME romance fiction in the U.S. and the U.K. at “Romancing the University: BIPOC Scholars in Romance Novels in the 1980s and Now” in the open-access journal Esferas Literarias.

Registration is capped, so please register early if you are planning on attending. Please note: gratuity for the bartenders is not included. Please use your tickets at the beginning of the event.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Book Club Bar, 197 East 3rd Street, New York, United States