Center for New Words

7 Temple Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
United States

617-876-5310; cnwcenterfornewwords.org

Web site: http://www.centerfornewwords.org

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Description: The Center for New Words is dedicated to a simple mission: To use the power and creativity of words and ideas to strengthen the voice of progressive and marginalized women in society. Book events are held at 7 Temple Street and other locations; please check event schedule for venue.

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Nancy Polikoff (Martxoa 13 at 19:00)

Nancy Polikoff promotes Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families Under the Law.

A persuasive argument that married couples should not receive special rights denied to other families, Polikoff shows how the law can value all families, and why it must.

Event location: Kotzen Meeting Center, in Lefavour Hall at Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston

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reading: Class (Apirila 2 at 18:00)

Betsy Leondar-Wright and Linda Carney-Goodrich discusses books on class and identity.

Join us for a reading group on class and economic disparity, featuring a top-notch booklist covering everything from cutting edge to classics. Facilitators Linda Carney-Goodrich and Betsy Leondar-Wright will lead this 8 week exploration of class, identity and literature, making connections between the ... (more)worlds of the authors and our own lives. The group will meet every other Wednesday, April 2 - May 28, from 6 to 8 PM. Space is limited — call 617-876-5310 or email klpereira at centerfornewwords.org to let us know you’re interested.

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hattie gossett (Apirila 30 at 19:00)

hattie gossett reads from the immigrant suite: hey xenophobe who you calling a foreigner?.

Writing from the upper west side of Manhattan, where Harlem intersects with waves of immigrants from the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Korea, Cambodia, Ivory Coast, India, Native America, and from all over the globe, hattie gossett vividly invokes her neighborhood experience. With wit and candor, ... (more)she questions why so many people are forced from their home countries, only to be despised as interlopers in the United States; why older immigrants see younger ones as the enemy; who gets paid a living wage, who gentrifies their neighborhood, and who sends their money back home. From the grocery store to the cleaners to the tenement walk-up and everywhere in between, gossett captures the voices overheard and imagined in this breathless immigrant suite.

Event location: Kotzen Meeting Center, in Lefavour Hall at Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston

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Nadejda Marques (Maiatza 8 at 19:00)

Nadejda Marques reads from Born Subversive: A Memoir of Survival.

Nadejda Marques was born in the midst of social upheaval, violence and transformation in Brazil. In 1973, when she is just nine months old, her father is kidnapped, tortured and murdered by the military regime that seized power in Brazil in 1964. Her mother then flees to Chile alone. A friend takes the ... (more)infant Nadejda separately to Santiago, Chile where the three meet just days before the military coup d’Ã©tat there led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet in September 1973. Nadejda and her mother now must flee Pinochet’s henchmen. They become refugees setting off on a journey that takes them to Sweden, Russia, Cuba, Panama and, finally, back to Brazil. Later, Nadejda continues her own journey, marrying an American human rights activist in Brazil, working in Angola and settling eventually, in Massachusetts.

Event location: Central Square Library, 45 Pearl Street, Cambridge

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Nora Pierce (Maiatza 15 at 19:00)

Nora Pierce reads from The Insufficiency of Maps.

In Pierce’s forceful debut, Alice is five when she and her homeless, mentally ill mother, Amalie (Mami, she calls her), arrive at Papi’s trailer in an Arizona Indian reservation to live....

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