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  • Get LIT with Natasha - Feb 5 @ 1:00 PM CST
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    Join Kindred Stories as we launch our At Home Lit Workshop in partnership with Lit-Life!  During the workshop parents will learn highly engaging strategies to use with their children to support reading out loud, comprehension, and more!  

    In this workshop, Natasha, a former preschool teacher, will provide one-on-one literacy coaching and take-home reading resources. Natasha will be working from Another by Christian Robinson.

    A Little About Natasha: 

    Natasha McDaniel is a passionate educator from Houston, TX. Her 11 years in education include roles as classroom teacher, district literacy specialist, and classroom management coach. While serving in schools, Natasha’s greatest joy became nurturing children into resourceful learners and independent thinkers. 

    Natasha launched Lit for Life fueled with the mission of empowering families and children through literacy and learning. Her vision is to take the frustration out of at home literacy learning to build skilled, engaged learners and confident, equipped families. Natasha offers relevant, engaging, and effective family literacy coaching and hands-on learning materials to improve children’s reading, writing, and phonics growth and engagement.


  • Kindred Stories Kinfolk Gathering (INVITE ONLY)
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    If you got an invite to this gathering, know that you are truly apart of our community. 

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    When: Please refer to invitation.

    Where: Kindred Stories' Reading Garden

    How: RSVP with the password to the notes to secure your spot and we'll see you there! 

    ABOUT THE GATHERING

    There is nothing formal about this gathering! There will be food, drinks and a bomb playlist. Come hang out with the Kindred Stories Staff, some of our favorite local authors and fellow readers/book lovers. 

  • IRL Poetry Reading with Ariana Brown & Aris Kian-July 29 at 7PM
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    We're celebrating the anniversary of We Are Owed. with Ariana Brown!

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    When: July 29, 2023

    Where: Project Row House Community Gallery 

    How: RSVP for a free ticket or support the our programming and the author by RSVP WITH BOOK to grab a copy of We Are Owed. 

    ABOUT THE BOOK
    We Are Owed. is the debut poetry collection of Ariana Brown, exploring Black relationality in Mexican and Mexican American spaces. Through poems about the author’s childhood in Texas and a trip to Mexico as an adult, Brown interrogates the accepted origin stories of Mexican identity. We Are Owed. asks the reader to develop a Black consciousness by rejecting U.S., Chicano, and Mexican nationalism and confronting anti-Black erasure and empire-building. As Brown searches for other Black kin in the same spaces through which she moves, her experiences of Blackness are placed in conversation with the histories of formerly enslaved Africans in Texas and Mexico.

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    Ariana Brown is a queer Black Mexican American poet from San Antonio, TX, currently based in Houston. She is the author of We Are Owed. (Grieveland, 2021) and Sana Sana (Game Over Books, 2020). Ariana’s work investigates queer Black personhood in Mexican American spaces, Black relationality and girlhood, loneliness, and care. She holds a B.A. in African Diaspora Studies and Mexican American Studies, an M.F.A. in Poetry, and an M.S. in Library Science. Ariana is a 2014 national collegiate poetry slam champion and owes much of her practice to Black performance communities led by Black women poets from the South. She has been writing, performing, and teaching poetry for over ten years. Follow Ariana online @ArianaThePoet.

    ABOUT CONVERSATION PARTNER/ CO-READER

    Aris Kian is a Houston enthusiast and student of abolitionists. Her poems are published with Button Poetry, West Branch, Obsidian Lit, The West Review and elsewhere. She ranks #2 in the 2023 Womxn of the World Poetry Slam and is the 2023-2025 Houston Poet Laureate. She received her MFA from the University of Houston as an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellow and currently serves as the Narrative Change & Media Manager at Houston in Action.
  • Black Studies Writing Cafe - September 9 @ 9:30 AM
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    Join fellows from the University of Houston-Downtown's Center for Social Inquiry and Transformation for a three-hour session of writing, reflection, and community. This writing cafe is hosted in support of our Mellon-funded writing project, Reimagining Black Studies Research and Teaching in an Age of Backlash.  We welcome scholars and graduate students in Black Studies or related disciplines, as well as independent scholars and creatives whose work speaks to or intersects with Black Studies. Attendees are encouraged, but not required, to submit an abstract for consideration to be included in our forthcoming anthologies on research and teaching.

    EVENT DEETS

    When: Tuesday, September 9 @ 9:30 AM

    Where: Kindred Stories (2310 Elgin St, #2,  Houston, TX 77004)

    How: RSVP to reserve your spot.(Limited Space Available) 

     

  • Black Studies Writing Cafe - September 23 @ 9:30 AM
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    Join fellows from the University of Houston-Downtown's Center for Social Inquiry and Transformation for a three-hour session of writing, reflection, and community. This writing cafe is hosted in support of our Mellon-funded writing project, Reimagining Black Studies Research and Teaching in an Age of Backlash.  We welcome scholars and graduate students in Black Studies or related disciplines, as well as independent scholars and creatives whose work speaks to or intersects with Black Studies. Attendees are encouraged, but not required, to submit an abstract for consideration to be included in our forthcoming anthologies on research and teaching.

    EVENT DEETS

    When: Tuesday, September 23 @ 9:30 AM

    Where: Kindred Stories (2310 Elgin St, #2,  Houston, TX 77004)

    How: RSVP to reserve your spot.(Limited Space Available) 

     

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