A Lunchtime Reading with Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Author of Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana
Friday, October 21st
12 noon
Altschul 805
In Around the Bloc, Stephanie relates her experiences as a volunteer at a children's shelter in Moscow, a propaganda polisher at the Chinese Communist Party's mouthpiece in Beijing, and a belly dancer among the rumba queens of Havana. For this event, Stephanie will be focusing on her recent trip to Mexico, where she rallied with Zapatistas in Chiapas, sneaked into a prison to meet indigenous resistance leaders in Oaxaca, and investigated the murder of gay activist Octavio Acuña in
Querétaro. She also conducted extensive interviews with undocumented workers and the families they've left behind. These adventures are the subject of her forthcoming memoir, "Mexican Enough," due out in 2007. Light Refreshments will be served.
Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies and the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW)
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