Name: Stop Telling Women To Smile/5 Year Book Release
Start: 2025-02-22T15:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-22T17:00:00-05:00
Location: The Free Black Women's Library Reading Room

$Stop Telling Women To Smile\/5 Year Book Release$

Join artist & author Tatyana Fazlalizadeh for a talk and group discussion on her book STOP TELLING WOMEN TO SMILE.
About this Event

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The Free Black Women's Library & Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
present
Stop Telling Women To Smile/5 Year Book Release
Saturday, Feb 22
3PM - 5PM
Join artist and author Tatyana Fazlalizadeh for a talk and group discussion on her book Stop Telling Women to Smile: Stories of Street Harassment and How We're Taking Back Our Power in honor of its 5 year release.
This event will feature:
- The author reading selected excerpts from the text, and offering insight on its creation and impact.
- An open conversation on street harassment, exploring personal experiences and collective solutions.
- A chance to have your book signed by the author.
- An opportunity for individual women to share their stories and participate in a photo shoot, adding their voices to the ongoing Stop Telling Women to Smile project.
Space is limited!!
Artist/Author's Bio:
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh (she/her) is a Brooklyn based interdisciplinary artist working primarily in painting, public art, and multimedia installation. Tatyana, whose social practice is rooted in Black feminist praxis, considers image-making as a site of protest, contestation, affirmation and possibility. Her work centers community engagement and the public sphere, making site-specific work that considers how people, particularly women, Black folks and queer folks, experience race and gender within their surrounding physical environments. She is the creator of Stop Telling Women to Smile, an international street art series that tackles gender-based street harassment. The project has been ongoing for over 10 years and in 2020 Tatyana released the book, Stop Telling Women to Smile: Stories of Street Harassment and How We're Taking Back Our Power.
Tatyana has lectured about her work and social practice methodology at institutions such as The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Brooklyn Museum, as well as several schools including Brown, Pratt, Stanford, and The New School. Fazlalizadeh has been profiled by the New York Times, NPR, the New Yorker, and Time Magazine. Group exhibitions include the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum. She is a Forbes Under 30 lister, a University of Michigan Mellon Foundation Fellow, and in 2018 she became the inaugural Public Artist in Residence for the New York City Commission on Human Rights.