Tracing the routes and scars of systems of violence, extraction, and disposability that have shaped our society, our cities, and the lives within them, colonialism and racial capitalism have left both visible and invisibilised impacts on our bodies, our communities, and our cultures. Exploring these histories and continuities - and the legacies and ongoing practices of resistance to them - requires us to examine the past and present, the individual and the collective, simultaneously. 

Celebrating Tending to Our Wounds: A Diasporic Memoir , the powerful new memoir from Edna Bonhomme, this conversation with award-winning novelist Edwidge Danticat will follow these stories, the routes and roots of oppression, survival, and the ongoing struggle for liberation, in a profound, poetic voyage through Port-au-Prince, New York, Miami, Berlin, Cairo, and beyond.


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Speakers:

Edna Bonhomme is a critic, historian of science, and journalist. She earned a PhD in history from Princeton University and holds a Bachelor's degree in Biology and a Master's degree in Public Health from Columbia University. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Esquire, The Guardian, London Review of Books, and The Nation. She is co-editor of After Sex, a literary anthology on abortion and reproductive justice, and the author of A History of the World in Six Plagues. Bonhomme has earned awards from the Andy Warhol Foundation and the Robert Silvers Foundation. She has lived in Berlin since 2017.

Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection, Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner, The Dew Breaker, Claire of the Sea Light, and The Art of Death, a National Book Critics Circle finalist for Criticism. She has written seven books for children and young adults, a travel narrative, After the Dance, and two collections of essays, Create Dangerously and We're Alone. Her memoir, Brother, I'm Dying, was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award and a 2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. Her story collection, Everything Inside, was a 2020 winner of The Story Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Prize. She is a 2009 MacArthur Fellow and is currently teaching at Columbia University.

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