TRAVELING WITHOUT MOVING presentation at Twin Cities Book Festival with Taiyon J. Coleman
October 19 @ 11:15 am
Taiyon J. Coleman will read from and sign copies of her new book Traveling without Moving: Essays from a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America, at the 2024 Twin Cities Book Festival on Saturday, October 19 at 11:15 a.m. on the Showcase Stage.
This event is free and open to the public; public transportation passes available through Twin Cities Book Festival.
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.
“Hope is a nest of yellowjackets in this collection of personal essays. Taiyon J. Coleman hammers the page to make sense of a world that refuses to make sense of her. She writes into the break and the crack and the tectonic plates of love and loss. The searchlights of institutional racism follow everybody home. Everybody. Even the noodles in the bowl look like the n-word tied to the entire neck of the graduate class she will not be unseen in. This is a book to have and to hold.” —Nikky Finney, author of Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry
“[Coleman’s] essays speak a powerful truth in regard to the disparities faced not only by a Black woman in housing, medical care, employment, and education, but by marginalized communities as a whole.” —Insight News
“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
