Houston Noname's Book Club Meet-up

This is an unofficial meetup of NONAME'S BOOK CLUB AND WE'LL BE DISCUSSING MORGAN PARKER'S _Magical Negro_ and Audre Lorde's _Sister Outsider_. We hope you'll buy them from your local independent bookseller [https://www.indiebound.org/]. We're meeting at Universal Standard at 1202 Hawthorne Street in Montrose. Parking is limited, so ride-sharing and/or Lyft is encouraged. The discussion will be facilitated by Emerson Zora Hamsa. Join US and bring your books!  Support NONAME'S BOOK CLUB ON PATREON AT patreon.com/nonamebooks [https://www.patreon.com/nonamebooks] and follow them on social media.  _Magical Negro_ [https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=magical+negro+morgan+parker] is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration, songs of congregation and self-conception. They connect themes of loneliness, displacement, grief, ancestral trauma, and objectification, while exploring and troubling tropes and stereotypes of Black Americans. Focused primarily on depictions of black womanhood alongside personal narratives, the collection tackles interior and exterior politics―of both the body and society, of both the individual and the collective experience. _Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches_ [https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=sister+outsider+audre+lorde] is a collection of essential essays and speeches written by Audre Lorde, a woman who wrote from the particulars of her identity: Black woman, lesbian, poet, activist, cancer survivor, mother, and feminist writer. Noname's Book Club [http://nonamebooks.com] is an online/irl community dedicated to uplifting POC voices. We do this by highlighting two books each month written by authors of color. In addition to our social media presence we feel it is highly important to have free in-person meet ups to discuss the monthly picks in a safe and supportive environment. Currently we have 6 local chapters with plans for continuous growth. This meetup is being hosted by Universal Standard [https://1to1.universalstandard.com/houston-location] and organized in conjunction with the Houston Afrofuturism Book Club. The Houston Afrofuturism Book Club is funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.