Brown Motherhood
Thu, May 13
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A conversation with 5 mothers and writers of South Asian descent who’ll read from their work and talk representation, identity and intersectionality and share what brownness, motherhood, writing as well as raising socially conscious children means to them.


Time & Location
May 13, 2021, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
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About the Event
Brown Motherhood:
A conversation with 5 mothers and writers of South Asian descent — Namrata Poddar, Sonora Jha, Usha Reena Rungoo, Shilpa Agarwal, and Gayatri Sethi — who’ll read from their work and talk representation, identity and intersectionality (via race, class, caste, gender, religion, sexual orientation and migration) and share what brownness, motherhood, writing as well as raising socially conscious children means to them.
About the Writers: Namrata Poddar writes fiction, nonfiction and serves as the Interviews Editor for Kweli where she curates a series on Race, Power, and Storytelling. Her work has appeared in Longreads, Literary Hub, Poets & Writers, The Los Angeles Times, The Kenyon Review, The Best Asian Short Stories anthology, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. Her debut novel, “Border Less,” was a finalist for Feminist Press's Louise Meriwether Prize, and is forthcoming from 7.13 Books. IG: @writerpoddar; Twitter: @poddar_namrata.
Sonora Jha, Ph.D., is a novelist, essayist, researcher, and…