TRAVELING WITHOUT MOVING event at Rondo Public Library with Taiyon J. Coleman
January 8, 2025 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm CST
Taiyon J. Coleman will join the Fireside Reading Series at Rondo Public Library on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, for a reading and moderated Q&A on her book Traveling without Moving: Essays from a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America, at 6:30 p.m. CST.
This event is free and open to the public. A virtual livestream of the event will also be provided.
A Black woman in America is always on the run, desperate to survive, thrive, and finally find freedom. Using a powerful blend of perspectives that move between a first-person lens of lived experience and a wider-ranging critique of U.S. culture, policy, and academia, Taiyon J. Coleman explores what it means to write her story and that of her family—an act at once a responsibility and a privilege—bringing forth the inherent contradictions between American ideals and Black reality.
“Traveling without Moving is a powerful reclamation of the past. Taiyon J. Coleman courageously adventures through time to explore and bring back the pieces of herself that this country and its racist institutions and populations have worked tirelessly to demolish. This book is a statement of truth to power, to the world beyond this one, and to the spirits waiting to enter.” —Kao Kalia Yang, author of Somewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir
“The result of [Coleman’s] diligent work is this ebullient, insightful, frank, and humorous essay collection suffused with a joyful defiance; ultimately, it reads like a well-deserved celebration of Coleman’s many personal and professional triumphs.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Coleman’s calling as a poet and educator shines through in her intelligent probing of her lived realities as they collide with structural racism, classism, and gender biases.” —Colors of Influence
