People of color share "Essential Truths," June 29,2021, San Francisco Examiner, Arts & Entertainment.Newsletter: https://www.sfexaminer.com/entertainment/people-of-color-share-essential-truths/ In the newsstands June 30, 2021.
TUNE IN to Avotcja's LA VERDAD MUSICAL / THE MUSICAL TRUTH on KPOO-Radio
Friday,June 25 @ 1;15pm to hear readings from ESSENTAIL TRUTHS by Avotcja and Shizue Seigel
TUNE IN to KCBS radio 740 on the AM dial on June 12 @12:20 pm
to hear Melissa Culross and Shizue Seigel discuss Essential Truths.
POWERFUL WORDS FROM WRITERS OF COLOR AND ALLIES
WHO BACK WORDS WITH ACTION
Congratulations to all the awesome writers that are part of the Write Now! community.
Look at what we've been up to.
• Francée Covington, San Francisco writer, in Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2020/07/07/uneasy-lies-the-head-of-the-black-mom/
• Sue Granzella, East Bay elementary school teacher, in McSweeney's Internet Tendency
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/foolproof-safety-tips-for-teachers-returning-to-the-classroom
• Shawna Sherman, African American Center, San Francisco Public Library in USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2020/06/03/coronavirus-contact-tracer-covid-19-california-column/5309779002/
• Sandra Bass, Associate Dean, Director of the UC Berkeley Public Center Center
in the Daily Cal: https://blogs.berkeley.edu/2020/06/05/we-need-to-move-from-ritualized-responses-to-reparations/
• Sriram Shamasunder, MD, UCSF teaching physician, co-founder HEAL Initiative
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/When-is-it-going-to-stop-UCSF-team-15263009.php
• Shizue Seigel: San Francisco Public Library, Poet Laureate Kim Shuck's Poem of the Day, May 14, 2020 https://www.facebook.com/sfpl.org/photos/a.89015335608/10157964692000609/?type=3&theater
• Raluca Ioanid & Shizue Seigel: pieces in the anthology (Her)orics: Women’s Lived Experience of the Pandemic: http://joanellserraauthor.com/heroic/