Name: Jaspreet Kaur - Brown Girl Like Me
Start: 2022-04-19T21:00:00+01:00
End: 2022-04-19T22:00:00+01:00
Location: Theatre, Warwick Arts Centre

Jaspreet Kaur - Brown Girl Like Me

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Award-winning spoken word artist, secondary school teacher, turned author, Jaspreet Kaur

Theatre, Warwick Arts Centre

Resonate 2022 Festival

Over 70 individual events, drop-in activities, games and experiences - something for all the family to enjoy during the April school break.

Resonate 2022 is a three-day extravaganza on the University of Warwick campus between 19-21 April.

BROWN, FIERCE AND FEARLESS
Join award-winning spoken word artist, secondary school teacher, and now author, Jaspreet Kaur, as she discusses the inspiration, process and findings of her debut book, Brown Girl Like Me. 
Jaspreet pulls no punches, tackling difficult topics from mental health and menstruation stigma to education and beauty standards, from feminism to cultural appropriation and microaggressions. Interwoven with interviews from brilliant South Asian women in the UK and around the world, the book gives space to many differing voices and viewpoints, showing that although there is no single experience that all brown women share, there is solidarity and community that extends – online and offline – across the globe. 
In this agenda-setting debut, Jaspreet asks: How can you be a brown feminist without rejecting your own culture, and fitting into what Western feminist standards dictate? How do you remain true to who you are while trying to navigate a white male-dominated workspace? Why are Asian girls the second-highest performing group of students in the country, yet this isn’t reflected in wider institutions? 
The answers to these questions, and many more, come from personal interviews with Asian women who have thrived despite the odds set against them, from authors to politicians, artists to students, aunties to grandmothers. Jaspreet knows it is paramount that their stories and life lessons are recorded, noted and passed on so future brown girls feel better armed to take on the world. The book details Jaspreet’s own life, as well as bringing together academic insight and these wider experiences.
Jaspreet promises an event that will give women the confidence, power, reassurance, and permission to be the very best version of themselves.

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