The Center for Equity and Inclusion (CEI) and UW Tacoma Library Real Lit[erature]: Reading for Social Justice co-founders are excited to announce an Author Talk with Crystal Maldonado on Thursday, March 10, 2022 via Zoom. Crystal Maldonado is the award-winning author of Fat Chance, Charlie Vega, and most recently, No Filter and Other Lies.
Crystal Maldonado’s work explores and celebrates fat representation and fat positivity, and reclaims the identity and experiences of women, especially women of color. Maldonado will be discussing her books and will also be answering questions. For more work on fat positivity and fat activism in Young Adult work, see this LibGuide by Genesee Rickel.
Staff, faculty, and students from all three campuses AND community members are invited to attend!
Please register in advance to attend the author talk with Crystal Maldonado. The Zoom link will be sent to all registered attendees the day prior.
Thursday, March 10, 2022
12:30-1:30 PM Pacific via Zoom
More about Fat Chance, Charlie Vega:
“Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard. Harder when your whole life is on fire, though. Charlie Vega is a lot of things. Smart. Funny. Artistic. Ambitious. Fat. People sometimes have a problem with that last one. Especially her mom. Charlie wants a good relationship with her body, but it’s hard, and her mom leaving a billion weight loss shakes on her dresser doesn’t help. The world and everyone in it have ideas about what she should look like: thinner, lighter, slimmer-faced, straighter-haired. Be smaller. Be whiter. Be quieter. But there’s one person who’s always in Charlie’s corner: her best friend Amelia. Slim. Popular. Athletic. Totally dope. So when Charlie starts a tentative relationship with cute classmate Brian, the first worthwhile guy to notice her, everything is perfect until she learns one thing–he asked Amelia out first. So is she his second choice or what? Does he even really see her? Because it’s time people did. A sensitive, funny, and painfully honest coming-of-age story with a wry voice and tons of chisme, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega tackles our relationships to our parents, our bodies, our cultures, and ourselves.” – Penguin Random House