Please join Professors Micah Perks and Kimberly Lau for a conversation about fairy tales, fantasy, and the ways that historically and culturally specific ideas about race contribute to the making and maintenance of their white worlds.

This is an after-hours event at Downtown Library. Refreshments will be served.

Kimberly Lau is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she teaches courses on fairy tales, monster studies, popular culture, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century women’s fiction, all within the context feminist theory, critical race studies, and gender and sexuality studies. She is the author of Specters of the Marvelous: Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale (2024)

Micah Perks is the author of a short story collection, a memoir and two novels. Her novel, What Becomes Us, won an Independent Publisher’s Gold Medal and was named one of the Top Ten Books about the Apocalypse by The Guardian.

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