Book Club Tonight: Hijab Butch Blues
Usually for paid, but open for everyone this month!
Scroll down for the Zoom link for tonight’s book club starting at 9pm ET.
I am so excited that tonight we are starting our bimonthly, community led, book club! Every other month we will read a book about identity and/or mental health (fiction and nonfiction) and chat about it together. I firmly believe in the power of reading and books and storytelling to help us understand ourselves better and heal together.
We have a team of community volunteers running these book clubs (if this interests you, feel free to respond to this email), and I will also be joining as a peer member who loves to read and talk all things books.
With that said, here are some guidelines:
We may reserve this space for paid subscribers down the road, but want to keep it open for everyone for a few months. So this is your chance to join and see what this is about!
With that said, we are capping attendance at 30 people so it’s first come first served.
People will not be allowed in after the 20 minute mark so the host and the group are not disturbed and can be present in the conversation and community discussion.
Other disclaimers:
We all have to do our part to create a judgement-free and respectful space. Please keep in mind that we all identify as immigrants, children of immigrants or bicultural/multicultural. But we are not a monolith and we should all be mindful that there are people present with differing identities, differing relationships to those identities, and differing experiences. Please be kind and judgment-free as we share and discuss the book. We also want to be mindful of any content warnings as we have this discussion and be mindful of how we discuss sensitive topics.
No one will be mandated to share anything they do not openly offer to the group on their own; however this is a community meeting and so I hope you will participate! Video is not mandatory, but strongly encouraged for maximum participation and connection.
This is not a structured event! I may have a couple of discussion questions to get us started, but this is a COMMUNITY event, so it’s up to each of us to make it what we want! Think of it as a meetup in the park…
Finally, all book club hosts retain the right to mute a participant's audio and ask them to leave for being distracting, disrespectful, rude, or hateful.
Zoom link for 9pm ET
Topic: Culturally Enough. Book Club: Hijab Butch Blues
Time: Feb 24, 2025 09:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81942563176?pwd=LI17t81US5GZHlnkv7qSijQ9PZhXqA.1
Meeting ID: 819 4256 3176
Passcode: 583711
Any chance you'd be open to a UK timezone equivalent at some point? 😅