About this Event
Unfortunately pain and injustice are central features in human experience in the current world we occupy, but this workshop asserts that another world is possible. In order to concretely build our lives, and by extension a world, where kindness, fairness, respect, and justice are the norm, then we must be able to name and identify clearly that which harms us, individually and collectively, and describe in detail what a just and healed world looks and feels like to us. In short, we need to begin writing what's hard.
˜This workshop draws its prompts and questions from the writings in the seminal anthology Sana, Sana: Latinx Pain and Radical Visions for Healing and Justice, edited by David Glisch-Sánchez (workshop facilitator) and Nic Rodríguez Villafañe. Using excerpts from the anthology, participants will have the opportunity and choice to focus their writing in the workshop space on one or more of the three themes: pain, healing, and justice. Participants will be invited to share what they write, but are not required to do so and are only encouraged to share as long as they are comfortable. We will end the workshop with a conversation about the process and experience of writing about these hard things.
Although the workshop takes as its start the witnessing of pain and the dreaming of healing and justice by Latinx writers, participants are not required to be Latinx in order to participate. The anthology was created to center Latinx experiences, but was intended to be a tool to facilitate and promote conversations around pain, healing, and justice across and within multiple communities. All that is required of participants is your willingness to be open and vulnerable in the writing process.
Copies of Sana, Sana: Latinx Pain and Radical Visions for Healing and Justice will be available for purchase through Two Friends Books
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Two Friends Bookstore + Cafe, 801 Southeast 8th Street, Bentonville, United States
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