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We meet the last Thursday of every month for book club, with occasional "field trips" to community performances, museum exhibits, ethnic restaurants or other local events. We read books across genres that explore issues of race, culture, gender, disability and other forms of "othering" in America as a means of educating, understanding, and seeking justice within Milwaukee and the larger community. If you're interested in experiencing other perspectives, exploring and challenging your own and society's views, and engaging in respectful dialogue we invite you to join the conversation!
Upcoming events (3)
See all- Interabled: True Stores of Love and Disability, by Shane and Hannah BurcawHill Valley Dairy, Milwaukee, WI
Join us to discuss Interabled: True Stories About Love and Disability from YouTube sensations Shane and Hannah Burcaw. This collection of interviews and short stories follows the lives of several couples as they navigate their love story in an ableist world.
We’ll meet at the Hill Valley Dairy location in Walker's Point, so come hungry for cheese, maybe some wine or a cocktail and good conversation. Parking in the area is largely on-street but there is a small pay lot on the corner of 2nd and Bruce as well. Hope to see you there!
- Stone Butch Blues, by Leslie FeinbergHill Valley Dairy, Milwaukee, WI
Join us to discuss Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues, widely considered in and outside the U.S. to be a groundbreaking work about the complexities of gender. PLEASE NOTE: this book contains scenes of sexual violence and other topics which may be upsetting for some readers, so please consider carefully if that's something you're willing to endure in deciding whether or not to attend the meeting.
Please also note that the novel can be difficult to locate in physical book form, but may be downloaded for free at https://www.lesliefeinberg.net/ or purchased in Kindle format from Amazon ($6.99 at time of event publication).
We’ll meet at the Hill Valley Dairy location in Walker's Point, so come hungry for cheese, maybe some wine or a cocktail and good conversation. Parking in the area is largely on-street but there is a small pay lot on the corner of 2nd and Bruce as well. Hope to see you there!
- Everyone Who is Gone is Here, by Jonathon BlitzerHill Valley Dairy, Milwaukee, WI
Join us to discuss New York Times' bestseller Everyone Who is Gone is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis, the "epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border told through the lives of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policymakers who determine their fate," by writer Jonathan Blitzer.
We’ll meet at the Hill Valley Dairy location in Walker's Point, so come hungry for cheese, maybe some wine or a cocktail and good conversation. Parking in the area is largely on-street but there is a small pay lot on the corner of 2nd and Bruce as well. Hope to see you there!
