Left Turns in Brown Study release + reading
Jacob Lindgren @ 2024-11-05 10:11:35 -0600Join us! on Saturday, November 9th from 3:30pm for a book release and poetic jam 🍇 🔡 🫐 session with Sandra Ruiz, Ruth Nicole Brown and Melody Contreras surrounding Ruiz's newest book, Left Turns in Brown Study.
🐚 🎛 The three will be in conversation surrounding and read from/around Ruiz's book, "crucial for all those who theorize minoritarian literary aesthetics and think through utopia, queer possibility, and the entwinement of forms," including an open dialogue throughout.
"In Left Turns in Brown Study Sandra Ruiz offers a poetic-theoretical inquiry into the interlacing forms of study and mourning. Drawing on Black and Brown activism and theory, Ruiz interweaves poetry, memoir, lyrical essay, and vignettes to examine study as an emancipatory practice. Proposing “brown study” as key for understanding how Brownness harbors loss and suffering along with the possibility for more abundant ways of living, Ruiz invites readers to turn left into the sounds, phrases, and principles of anticolonial ways of reading, writing, citing, and listening. In doing so, Ruiz engages with a panoply of hauntings, ghosts, and spectral presences, from deceased teachers, illiterate ancestors, and those lost to unnatural disasters to all those victims of institutional and colonial violence. Study is shared movement and Brownness lives in citation. Conceptual, poetic, and unconventional, this book is crucial for all those who theorize minoritarian literary aesthetics and think through utopia, queer possibility, and the entwinement of forms."
🐚 🎛 The three will be in conversation surrounding and read from/around Ruiz's book, "crucial for all those who theorize minoritarian literary aesthetics and think through utopia, queer possibility, and the entwinement of forms," including an open dialogue throughout.
"In Left Turns in Brown Study Sandra Ruiz offers a poetic-theoretical inquiry into the interlacing forms of study and mourning. Drawing on Black and Brown activism and theory, Ruiz interweaves poetry, memoir, lyrical essay, and vignettes to examine study as an emancipatory practice. Proposing “brown study” as key for understanding how Brownness harbors loss and suffering along with the possibility for more abundant ways of living, Ruiz invites readers to turn left into the sounds, phrases, and principles of anticolonial ways of reading, writing, citing, and listening. In doing so, Ruiz engages with a panoply of hauntings, ghosts, and spectral presences, from deceased teachers, illiterate ancestors, and those lost to unnatural disasters to all those victims of institutional and colonial violence. Study is shared movement and Brownness lives in citation. Conceptual, poetic, and unconventional, this book is crucial for all those who theorize minoritarian literary aesthetics and think through utopia, queer possibility, and the entwinement of forms."
