Media Matters: Books and Beyond

Join YWCA's Quarterly Media Matters Discussion Club

YWCA hosts a quarterly discussion around a book or film that focuses on social justice issues. Each of our subjects connect to our mission of eliminating racism and empowering women. The club is open to all, no matter your age!

Why join us?

“The act of reading in a community can help you read more deeply and better understand diverse perspectives,” John Coleman writes in the Harvard Business Review.
You read things that you would not otherwise read.
Some books need to be discussed.
As Joyce Carol Oates said, “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.”

Upcoming Media Matters Series:

The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villaviencio

Writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio was on DACA when she decided to write about being undocumented for the first time using her own name. It was right after the election of 2016, the day she realized the story she’d tried to steer clear of was the only one she wanted to tell. So she wrote her immigration lawyer’s phone number on her hand in Sharpie and embarked on a trip across the country to tell the stories of her fellow undocumented immigrants—and to find the hidden key to her own. Read the full book description here.

Registration for this event has closed.

If you have any questions, please contact Jamila Green (Community Engagement Manager) at [email protected].