Common Read Kick-Off
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- Hybrid - in person at Holloway Hall (Bavaro Hall 116), and on Zoom
Join ODEI in debuting and celebrating the 2024–25 Common Read, Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know!
Be prepared to engage in activities focused on the themes of the book and re-energize with afternoon beverages and snacks. Attendees are not expected to have read the book before this event – we even have limited copies to give away. RSVP using this form: https://forms.office.com/r/Dk3ZDTWqzJ. Zoom link will be sent the day before the event.
About What My Bones Know, by Stephanie Foo:
In What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma, author Stephanie Foo recounts her story–from being abused and later abandoned by her parents to her C-PTSD diagnosis—to understand how her past continued to affect her present. Researching C-PTSD and interviewing psychologists and scientists, Foo investigates the effects of immigrant trauma and how they are passed on through generations. Powerful, enlightening, and hopeful, What My Bones Know is a brave narrative that reckons with the hold of the past over the present, the mind over the body—and examines one woman’s ability to reclaim agency from her trauma.
Questions? Contact [email protected].
More about the EHD Common Read can be found on the EHD ODEI webpage: https://education.virginia.edu/about/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/dei-programming/common-read.
Event Information
Event Sponsor
- Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion