Name: Table of Contents: These Heathens
Start: 2026-01-15T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-01-15T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Gladys Books & Wine

Join us for a night of food, conversation, and community—centered around a meal inspired by These Heathens!
About this Event

EVENT DESCRIPTION:

Table of Contents is a monthly supper club that takes culinary inspiration from books by Black and/or Queer authors. Each gathering is a celebration of story, sustenance, and solidarity—featuring a rotating mix of genres, cuisines, and dining formats so that there’s truly an event for everyone. Whether you’re drawn to fiction or memoir, communal tables or cozy corners, this series invites you to eat, read, and reflect in good company.

This month, we turn our attention to These Heathens by Mia McKenzie, a sharp, funny, and deeply searching novl about spirituality, identity, and the chaotic beautify of coming-of-age. When seventeen-year-old Doris Steele leaves her small Georgia town for Atlanta in 1960 to seek an abortion, she's thrust into a world of queer joy, civil rights organizers, galmorous celebrities, and people who live far beyong the rules she's been taught. What begins as a desperate trip becomes a transformative weekend that forces Doris to confront not just what she doesn't want, but who she might become.

MENU:

Inspired by the flavors and foodways woven throughout the novel, this event features a soul food meal of fried chicken, collard green salad, cornbread, and more. Each ticket comes with a complimentary glass of wine. Please list any dietary restrictions in the ticket order form - we're happy to accomodate!

SEATING:

This event will take place downstairs at Gladys - with a mixture of communal tables, two tops, and bar seating.

ABOUT THE HOST:

The Amandla Collective is a New York-based community organization that aims to fill your soul full; through gathering a community of contemporary comrades, through social justice-oriented discussions, and through cultural meals. Directly translated “The Amandla Collective” means The Power Collective, because we truly believes that through our collective power we can make change. Inspired by Georgia Gilmore, who ran a restaurant out of her home that became the underground supper club that fed thousands of organizers in the civil rights movement, the collective honors this importance of food as a meeting place for community and liberation.