| 30 Oct 2022 | 16:30 - 17:30 |
| Main Program / Main Program 30 Oct | 4-Day or 1-Day Main Program Pass |
| Alang-Alang. Festival Hub @Taman Baca (Google Maps) | |
| 4 DAY PASS 1 DAY PASS | |
Writers Fariha Roisin, Preeta Samarasan and Kirstin Chen discuss the identity issues that challenge them as writers, as well as ask how we can move beyond the optics of diversity to enact real, structural change. How does one successfully navigate the nuances and intersections of race, gender, class, and national history?
Fariha Roisin, Preeta Samarasan dan Kirstin Chen mendiskusikan masalah identitas yang menantang mereka sebagai penulis, serta menanyakan bagaimana kita dapat bergerak melampaui optik keragaman untuk melakukan perubahan struktural yang nyata. Bisakah nuansa persinggungan ras, gender, kelas, dan sejarah bangsa berhasil dicapai?
Kirstin Chen is The New York Times best-selling author of three novels. Her latest, Counterfeit, is a Reese Witherspoon book club pick, a Roxane Gay book club pick, and a …
Sally Breen is the author of the iconic grunge memoir The Casuals, winner of the Varuna Harper Collins Manuscript Prize and her novel Atomic City shortlisted for the People’s Choice …
Preeta Samarasan was born in Malaysia and moved to France where she now resides. Her novel Evening is the Whole Day was published in 2008, and more recently, her novel Tale of the …
Fariha Róisín is a multidisciplinary artist. Her work has pioneered a refreshing & renewed conversation about wellness, contemporary Islam, and queer identities & has been featured in The New York …
British activist, interdisciplinary artist, and celebrated designer Osman Yousefzada, discusses his first book, The Go-Between, a uniquely observed memoir of his childhood growing up between worlds in a closed migrant community. …
What are the challenges faced by females writing in male-populated genres? Does gender-based discrimination still exist, or has it shifted? Diana Reid, author of Love & Virtue, Ramayda Akmal author, …
Carla Power, the author of two Pulitzer Prize finalists in General Nonfiction, discusses the emerging field of deradicalization in her latest book Home, Land, Security. By inquiring into the stories …
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