Wednesday, April 13th 2022 at 1PM (PT) – Book talk with Therí A. View event recap and YouTube recording of the March 9th conversation.

Maat 2-3:30PM (PT) – Conversation with Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Yomi S. View event recap and Youtube recording of the February 19th conversation.

Pickens, and Cyrée Jarelle Johnson (Sins Invalid) facilitated by Beth Ribet. Wednesday, February 9th 2022 from 2-3:30PM (PT) – Conversation with Judy Heumann, Professor Therí A. View event recap and Youtube recording of the January 19th conversation. Kim, facilitated by Professor Juliann Anesi. Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 from 2-3:30PM (PT) – Conversation with Professor Sami Schalk and Professor Jina B. In addition to previously published work, this collection contains brand-new stories, including “Rumpus Room,” a supernatural horror novelette set in Florida about a woman’s struggle against both outer and inner demons.UCLA Disability Studies invites you to join us online for a series of action conversations among leading scholars, activists, and artists connecting the social-political momentum of disability justice movements with the rapidly evolving field of disability studies.ĭates for this virtual series are being finalized for Winter 2022, program is tentatively: All are written with Due’s trademark attention to detail and deeply drawn characters. In some of these stories, the monster is racism itself others address the monster within, each set against the supernatural or surreal. From the mysterious, magical town of Gracetown to the aftermath of a pandemic to the reaches of the far future, Due’s stories all share a sense of dread and fear balanced with heart and hope. Washington Post American Book Award-winning author Tananarive Due’s second collection of stories includes offerings of horror, science fiction, and suspense–all genres she wields masterfully. (These last sections include pandemic stories, written before 2020, which hit harder now.) Due shows just how much territory she can cover in one short book and just how versatile terrifying tales can be.” There are classic tales of horror, then a series of stories set in a Florida town where the swamp tends to swallow people up the final two sections shift to science fiction about post-apocalyptic futures. The Wishing Pool is helpfully divided into four sections, and each feels like a movement in a symphony. Due excels at twist endings but also brilliantly creates an atmosphere of creeping dread in which you know something terrible is coming.

So her new collection, The Wishing Pool, out in mid-April, is a major treat, full of major scares. In her first new book in seven years, Tananarive Due further cements her status as a leading innovator in Black horror and Afrofuturism“Tananarive Due is the master of Black horror, even teaching a class where Jordan Peele guest-lectured.

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