Event

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The Asian American Studies Program and the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program in conversation with Jenny Zhang.

Jenny Zhang is a writer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her writing is as much an exploration of the transition from Chinese immigrant girlhood to Chinese American womanhood, and by broader extension, Asian American identities in the U.S. Her latest collection of poetry, My Baby First Birthday, continues to explore basic human emotions, but through raw, gendered, and unsettling paths.

Moderated by Erin O'Malley, senior majoring in Comparative Literature and Gender, Sexuality, Women's Studies and minoring in Asian American Studies and Creative Writing.

Project supported by The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation Grants for the 2020 year and ASAM.

Books recommendations given by Jenny Zhang during this event:

• Tommy Pico's tetralogy of books: IRL, Junk, Nature Poem, Feed
• Morgan Parker's Poetry & YA Fiction
• Poetry: Magical Negro, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce, Other -People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night
• YA Fiction: Who Put This Song On?
• When Watched by Leopoldine Core
• Mysteries of The Dark Moon: The Healing Power of The Dark Goddess by Demetra George
• The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
• I Ching