Real Lit[erature] reads Young Adult fiction and is open to anyone affiliated with UW: students, faculty, staff! SIGN UP HERE!
Build community, reduce isolation and enhance campus education by joining a peer-based book club! The UW Tacoma Library, in collaboration with the Center for Equity and Inclusion, is pleased to announce that its award-winning social justice book club, Real Lit[erature], will meet remotely again Spring Quarter 2021!
The goals of Real Lit have always been to create a greater awareness and discussion of the experiences that are being had by our students, staff, and community members. By interacting with narratives that reflect different experiences, it has provided opportunities to dialogue with peers about shared and disparate experiences.
Students, Faculty, and Staff are welcome to join. We strive to be an actively anti-racist space and spend the first session crafting and reviewing community agreements.
We are reading Mason Deaver’s I Wish You All The Best:
When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they’re thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents’ rejection, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, and their therapist and try to keep a low profile in a new school. But Ben’s attempts to survive the last half of senior year unnoticed are thwarted when Nathan Allan, a funny and charismatic student, decides to take Ben under his wing. As Ben and Nathan’s friendship grows, their feelings for each other begin to change, and what started as a disastrous turn of events looks like it might just be a chance to start a happier new life. At turns heartbreaking and joyous, I Wish You All the Best is both a celebration of life, friendship, and love, and a shining example of hope in the face of adversity. -Description from author’s website.
To register for Spring Quarter 2021: SIGN UP HERE!
Free books are given to UW Tacoma students first, on a first come, first serve basis.
Real Lit meets Thursdays 12:30-1:30 via Zoom.