Real Lit Winter Quarter 2023: May The Best Man Win

To register for Winter Quarter 2023: Sign Up Here!

What is Real Lit? An award-winning social justice book club at UW Tacoma, that meets 100% remotely!

The UW Tacoma Library, in collaboration with the Center for Equity and Inclusion, is pleased to announce that Real Lit[erature], will continue Winter Quarter 2023! We meet remotely via zoom.

Build community, reduce isolation and enhance campus education by joining a peer-based book club!

The goals of Real Lit have always been to create greater awareness and discussion of the experiences that are being had by our students, staff, and community members. Interacting with narratives that reflect different experiences has provided opportunities for dialogue with peers about both 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 on January 5th crafting and reviewing community agreements and getting to know one another.

We are reading Z.R. Ellor’s May the Best Man Win!

“Jeremy Harkiss, cheer captain and student body president, won’t let coming out as a transgender boy ruin his senior year. Instead of bowing to the bigots and outdate school administration, Jeremy decides to make some noise—and how better than by challenging his all-star ex-boyfriend, Lukas for the title of Homecoming King?

Lukas Rivers, football star and head of the Homecoming Committee, is just trying to find order in his life after his older brother’s funeral and the loss of his long-term girlfriend—who turned out to be a boy. But when Jeremy threatens to break his heart and steal his crown, Lukas kick starts a plot to sabotage Jeremy’s campaign.

When both boys take their rivalry too far, the dance is on the verge of being canceled. To save Homecoming, they’ll have to face the hurt they’re both hiding—and the lingering butterflies they can’t deny.”

Meetings will be completely remote, via Zoom: Thursdays 12:30-1:20 beginning 1/5/2023. BRING A FRIEND!

Zoom link will be forthcoming after sign ups.

Please note: Real Lit is completely optional and you will not be graded. Students receive copies of books on a first-come, first-serve basis.

To register for Winter Quarter 2023: Sign Up Here!

If you have any questions please feel free to contact alainac@uw.edu or mailon@uw.edu or alisajk@uw.edu or lgonza3@uw.edu or jmjk@uw.edu