In collaboration with the Center for Equity and Inclusion, the UW Tacoma Library is ecstatic to announce that our award-winning social justice book club, Real Lit[erature], will be reading Ander & Santi Were Here by award-winning author Jonny Garza Villa for Winter Quarter 2025! …a YA contemporary love story from Jonny Garza Villa, Ander & Read More…
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Real Lit Remote: Taking our Book Club Online
Drumroll: meet Real Lit Remote! The UW Tacoma Library, in collaboration with the Center for Equity and Inclusion, is taking its social justice book club, Real Lit[erature], online! 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 Read More…
Filipino-American novel for Real Lit[erature] Book Club, Spring Quarter 2020
Real Lit[erature] 2020 is reading Patron Saints of Nothing! Get a free book! Discuss with peers, faculty, and staff! Real Lit[erature] — UW Tacoma’s fiction based book club co-created by the UW Tacoma Library and the Center for Equity and Inclusion — will have its next sessions Spring Quarter 2020, and you won’t want to Read More…
Library Happenings: February 2020
In December 2019, I stepped into the role of Interim Director of the UW Tacoma Library and Interim Associate Dean of the UW Libraries. One of the perks of my new job is that I get to learn about amazing work happening across the Library and see the ways that Library staff, spaces, events, Read More…
Skyping with Award-Winning author Elizabeth Acevedo
In the literature and library worlds, we so often speak about representation: that seeing something that reflects your own, lived, intersectional experiences matters. Books are described as mirrors or windows to understand and learn and feel seen. We were able to see the genuine value and beauty of representation during our most recent Real Lit[erature] Read More…
Staff Reads: The Diversity Bargain
We are really excited to talk about this quarter’s Staff Reads! What is Staff Reads? Inspired by the UW Tacoma Strategic Plan and Real Lit[erature], Staff Reads is a collaboration between the Center for Equity and Inclusion, The Center for Student Involvement, and the UW Tacoma Library. The reading group seeks to create greater awareness Read More…
Skype with the author: Adib Khorram, author of Darius the Great is Not Okay
The UW Tacoma Library and the Center for Equity and Inclusion are delighted to announce that we are bringing another Real Lit[erature] Author Talk to our campus! Last quarter we skyped with Dashka Slater, author of The 57 Bus. In the autumn we skyped with Angie Thomas. This quarter, all are welcome for a one hour Q&A Read More…
Library Photo of the Week
On 3/13, over a dozen UW Tacoma students, faculty and staff — as well as a City of Tacoma employee! — showed up to skype with author Dashka Slater. The event was well attended! Read more about why we think it is important to have social justice based conversation through the lens of literature. If Read More…
Real Lit[erature] Spring 2019
Real Lit[erature] — UW Tacoma’s fiction based book club co-created by the UW Tacoma Library and the Center for Equity and Inclusion — is back for Spring 2019, and you won’t want to miss it. The book we’re going to be reading is about clinical depression, being the child of immigrants, finding a sense of Read More…
Real Lit[erature] Book Club: Reading for Social Justice
We are excited to share some programming news! The UW Tacoma Library and The Center for Equity and Inclusion have been working all summer to get a pilot book club off the ground for the fall quarter. And we are ready to go! If you are a UW Tacoma Undergraduate and are interested in joining, Read More…