Out Loud Author Series welcomes Jacqueline Woodson in Cedar Rapids
Renowned author Jacqueline Woodson visits Cedar Rapids Friday as the 2018 Out Loud! Author Series speaker presented by the Metro Library Network. The free event follows her Sweden trip after acceptance of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s largest children's book prize.
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Cedar Rapids
Metro Library Network
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Sweden
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Out Loud! Author Jacqueline Woodson at Kirkwood Center
Jacqueline Woodson headlines the Honors class 2 What Out Loud! author series at The Hotel at Kirkwood Center Cedar Rapids on Friday. The free event requires preregistration at metrolibrarynetwork org outloud about the world. She will read speak and take questions, with audiences spanning young people and adults.
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Cedar Rapids
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It's Only Blood Shatters Menstrual Shame Across Nations
In Uganda and other countries researcher Anna Dahlqvist explores how period poverty and stigma limit education and equality. The book cites access to pads water toilets and knowledge as key barriers, linking menstrual rights to gender power and global citizenship.
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Saudah
Kampala
Uganda
Anna Dahlqvist
Kenya
Bangladesh
India
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What are We Doing Here essential reading essay collection
Robison, a Pulitzer Prize winner and Iowa Writers' Workshop professor emerita, presents a collection that examines how America defines itself. She argues our history is misunderstood, critiques dominant forms of Christianity, and urges careful reasoning against accepted origins and civil society threats.
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Robinson
Emerita
Iowa Writers’ Workshop
First Order
America
Stanford
Englert
Iowa City
Harper’s
Two women discuss activism in new book reading IC Iowa
Iowa City authors Miriam Kashia and Danielle Wirth read from We Rise to Resist at Prairie Lights Books. The volume edited by Paula W. Dail and Betty L. Wells collects 36 voices on activism health care education LGBTQIA issues the environment and more. Kashia a former private therapist and climate activist and Wirth an ISU and Drake University lecturer focus on environmental ethics and food security.
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Miriam Kashia
Danielle Wirth
Prairie Lights Books
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Betty L. Wells
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Iowa State University
Drake University
Miriam Kashla
S. Dubuque St
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