BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hugo House - ECPv6.3.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hugo House X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hugohouse.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hugo House REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T210000 DTSTAMP:20240329T040135 CREATED:20190119T072800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190119T072800Z UID:249052-1550775600-1550782800@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Feminism and the Body: A Reading and Conversation with Sophia Shalmiyev and Claire Dederer DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the release of her debut memoir\, Mother Winter\, Portland-based writer Sophia Shalmiyev will join fellow memoirist Claire Dederer\, author of Love and Trouble\, for a reading from their books and a conversation on feminism\, the body\, motherhood\, and other overlapping themes between their works.\n\n\nAbout Mother Winter and Sophia Shalmiyev\n\n \nMother Winter is equal parts refugee-coming-of-age story\, feminist manifesto\, and meditation on motherhood\, displacement\, gender politics\, and art that follows award-winning writer Sophia Shalmiyev’s flight from the Soviet Union\, where she was forced to abandon her estranged mother\, and her subsequent quest to find her. Braided into her physical journey is a metaphorical exploration of the many surrogate mothers Shalmiyev sought out in place of her own—whether in books\, art\, lovers\, or other lost souls banded together by their misfortunes.\n  \n  \n  \n \nSophia Shalmiyev emigrated from Leningrad in 1990. She is an MFA graduate of Portland State University with a second master’s degree in creative arts therapy from the School of Visual Arts. She lives in Portland with her two children. Mother Winter is her first book. \n\nAbout Love and Trouble and Claire Dederer\n\n \nLove and Trouble is the latest memoir from the New York Times bestselling author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses. When Claire Dederer turned 44 she began to have what she describes as “a lot of extremely inconvenient feelings”—feelings of recklessness\, of impatience\, along with a kind of voluptuous erotic reawakening. Love and Trouble shifts between her present experience as a middle-aged mom in the grip of unruly and mysterious new hungers\, and her recollection of herself as a teenager—the last time she experienced life with such heightened sensitivity and longing. \n  \n  \n  \nClaire Dederer is the author of two critically acclaimed memoirs: Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning and Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses\, which was a New York Times bestseller. Poser has been translated into 11 languages\, optioned for television by Warner Bros.\, and adapted for the stage. Dederer is a long-time contributor to The New York Times. Her essays\, criticism\, and reviews have also appeared in the Paris Review\, the Atlantic\, the Nation\, Vogue\, Marie Claire\, Elle\, Real Simple\, Entertainment Weekly\, New York magazine\, Chicago Tribune\, Newsday\, Slate\, Salon\, High Country News\, and many other publications. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/feminism-and-the-body-a-reading-and-conversation-with-sophia-shalmiyev-and-claire-dederer/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR