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Today’s A+ Read a Fucking Book Club Starts In 20 Minutes!

Nico —
Sep 26, 2022

feature photo by Dondre Stuetley

An image made of two repeating images of the author Sarah Thankam Mathews photo and the cover of her book All This Could Be Different. The author is a South Asian woman with long dark hair wearing a red and black boldly patterned top and orange earrings. She is looking at the viewer. The cover of all this could be different features a painting of a crowded room of a diverse array of people all interacting, drinking, talking, sitting, standing, leaning on each other. It is very colorful.

Book club starts so soon, at 5pm PST, but you can feel free to hop into the discord now to get comfortable!

Tonight, we’re talking with Sarah Thankam Mathews, author of All This Could Be Different and also a 2022 National Book Award Nominee! I for one could not be more jazzed!!

Okay so how do you get in the discord?

Follow this link, right here. If you’ve never used Discord before, you’ll have to set up an account. You can also login using this helpful widget:

A Note About the Transcript

The transcript is scheduled to be posted next week! While the Discord will close down, the conversation will be available for you to read next week behind A+.

What will the event be like?

It will be a text-based Q&A within Discord. I (Nico) will be there to moderate / help with flow. Basically, read the book (or as much as you can), bring your questions for the author, and ask those questions in the chat! Sarah will be there to talk with everyone and can you tell I’m excited? I’m excited!

Accessibility

We want Autostraddle events to be as accessible as possible and we opted to go with a text-based chatting format via Discord in large part because it was one of the most accessible ways to hold this virtual event, not just in terms of audio/visual accessibility, but also because we know it can be hard to ask a question out loud or know when to jump into a conversation. We hope this helps things go as smoothly as is possible for a virtual event. That said, if there are accommodations that would make it easier for you to attend this event, please reach out to me at nico[at]autostraddle.com to let me know. Also, here’s a link to a guide on using Discord with a screen reader. 

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