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Starting in April, this book club is for people of the global majority, dedicated to amplifying the voices of BIPOC writers from around the world, especially those of the Global South. Through our monthly gatherings, we aim to explore storytelling across various genres that reflect the diverse experiences, histories, and cultural perspectives of our storytellers—past, present, and emerging. Our club serves as a platform for exploration, connection, and empowerment, allowing members to delve deeply into works that challenge dominant narratives while celebrating the richness of lived experiences often marginalized in mainstream literature.

Through our readings and discussion, we hope to foster solidarity, collective reflection, and discussion on themes such as identity, care, belonging, social justice, heritage, resistance, and transformation. At the end of each meeting, we will leave with reflective writing prompts designed to enrich our story-telling and -listening practices, encouraging new ways of relating to our communities, ourselves, and the world.

ABOUT DAMINA:

Damina Khaira is a devoted reader who finds joy in stories that reveal the quiet beauty of everyday life. As an educator and trained anthropologist, she researches storytelling, aging, and cultural transmission, while her creative work lingers in themes of home and memory, especially in Malaysia, where she grew up. A dedicated journal-keeper, she loves reading across genres—from poetry and memoir to fiction—and sees creative ethnography as a bridge between scholarship and social engagement. She believes in the power of writing to witness, to connect, and to reimagine. Her favorite flowers, the hibiscus and flowering dogwood, remind her of the bold and the fleeting—much like the stories that hold us in the present, and perhaps linger long after…