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Read Brave Talk Brave: A Discussion About the Power of Women, Food, and Reading

A conversation about a book, the culture of food, the values of reading and libraries, and the blend of fiction and reality. From the author: "When your chosen one is a brown girl, who is undocumented, who is ‘born into the wrong body’ because she's a wolf and not a witch? What happens then?"

Exploring the Links Between Latina Art and Organizing: Jessica Lopez Lyman’s “Place-Keepers”

"Place-Keepers" profiles artists whose work moves fluidly between performance and protest. Their practices challenge boundaries between art and activism, demonstrating how aesthetics can mobilize communities, foster healing, and sustain long-term organizing.

Shodo Spring’s Book Inspired by the Natural World

“As a whole we know how to control, not how to engage; how to destroy, not how to grow. This is our great loss, and the reason we mourn. We do not know how to be part of the family.”

UPDATED BOOKS: A Variety Pack of Minnesota Authors

Memoirs, historical fiction, a caregiving resource, and book of essays are among the recent book titles by Minnesota authors.

BOOK: The Life of Helen Hoover in the Northern Woods

“The first light reveals the trees and brush as greenish-gray shapes, like amorphous, primordial predecessors to themselves. … Somewhere a bird chirps, a squirrel sputters into a lively argument with itself, gulls pass like shadows overhead, and the eastern sky flushes with pink.” 
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Understanding the Roots of Mass Violence: Mary Moriarty in Conversation with Dr. James Densley

Most school shooters are insiders who know the security systems. Some even seek “suicide by cop.” Deterrence fails when the perpetrator expects to die. “We’ve created a fortress mentality,” Densley says, “when what we need is community.”

From Mom-Care to Action: Identifying the Crises in Eldercare

Elder-care facilities are “part of a real estate investment game,” she says. “We need to do something before private equity buys up every one of these.”

Stories of Boundary-Breaking Women

We asked some of our team to offer synopses of recently published books about interesting women that they read this summer.

Going Solo

At a bookstore reading, Karen Babine shared the process of how she has grown into a solo camper and writer, starting from the same place many women with big dreams do: unrest.

Kitchens of Hope

One man, a captain of a ship, made the decision to pick up my family along the beaches of Saigon on April 30,1975, when the city fell to the North Vietnamese troops.

Dralanda Larkins: My Poems From the Intersection of Pain and Purpose

One of my poems in the collection, “Ode to the Hood — Where I’m From,” won first place at the Poets Against Humanity Slam hosted by Mirror Theatre in Sauk Rapids. That piece is a lyrical clapback to systemic oppression and neighborhood neglect. I

Reflections on My Four Years in the Deep South

A Minnesotan recalls the children she held in the 1970s who suffered from lack of social and familial security, and wishes to see a more integrated society.