Real Lit Reads Love After the End: An Anthology, edited by Joshua Whitehead!

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To register for Summer Quarter 2023: Sign Up Here!

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 be reading Love After the End: An Anthology, edited by Joshua Whitehead, for Summer Quarter 2023!

“This exciting and groundbreaking fiction collection showcases a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer) Indigenous writers from across Turtle Island. These visionary authors show how queer Indigenous communities can bloom and thrive through utopian narratives that detail the vivacity and strength of 2SQness throughout its plight in the maw of settler colonialism’s histories.

Here, readers will discover bioengineered AI rats, transplanted trees in space, the rise of a 2SQ resistance camp, a primer on how to survive Indigiqueerly, virtual reality applications, mother ships at sea, and the very bending of space-time continuums queered through NDN time. Love after the End demonstrates the imaginatively queer Two-Spirit futurisms we have all been dreaming of since 1492.” (Publisher’s description).

What is Real Lit?

Real Lit[erature] reads books about social justice and is open to anyone affiliated with UW: students, faculty, and staff!

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.

  • We strive to be an actively anti-racist space and spend the first session crafting and reviewing community agreements.
  • Meetings will be completely remote, via Zoom: Thursdays 12:30-1:20 beginning 6/22.
  • 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.

Questions? Feel free to reach out to alainac@uw.edu,  jmjk@uw.edu, mailon@uw.edu, alisajk@uw.edu or lgonza3@uw.edu!

To register for Summer Quarter 2023: Sign Up Here!

Accommodations: 

Zoom video sessions can be close-captioned. We will work with you for further disability accommodation.