Join us for another installment of the Rogue Loon Reading Series hosted by Jessie Kindig. Featuring readings from Jordan Kisner, Audrea Lim, Sophia Giovannitti, & Dr. Nimmi Gowrinathan.

Jordan Kisner is the author of the essay collection Thin Places, which was named one of NPR's best books of 2020. She is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and The Atlantic, and the creator of the podcast Thresholds with Lithub. 

Audrea Lim is freelance journalist who has written about climate, the environment, racial justice and social movements for the New York Times, Harper's, Guardian and The Nation, and is working on a book about the commodification of land in America. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and a 2022 Macdowell Fellow.

Sophia Giovannitti is a writer and artist in New York City, and her first book, Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex, is forthcoming next spring from Verso. Her videos and performance-based studies have been shown at Recess, the Athens Biennale, Duplex, and PPOW, among others.

Dr. Nimmi Gowrinathan  is an activist, writer, and scholar and founder of the Politics of Sexual Violence Initiative where she directs,  Beyond Identity: A Gendered Platform for Scholar-Activists at the City College of New York, the Publisher of Adi Magazine, and the creator of the Female Fighter Series at Guernica Magazine. Her book, Radicalizing Her, examines the politics of the female fighter. Her political essays which have appeared in Harper's, Freeman's Journal, McSweeney's Quarterly, Guernica Magazine, and Foreign Affairs among others have been described as "searing in a search for answers" (Publisher's Weekly).

Refreshments will be available for a suggested donation.