Open Mic & Counter Storytelling

By Ryan Clover-Owens | October 28, 2012

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center and the Durland Alternatives Library invite you to: A Night of Counterstorytelling stories of resistance, self-love and community Thursday, November 15, 8:00-11:00PM Join on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/369997116420839/ One World Cafe, Anabel Taylor We often feel forced to hide parts of ourselves, to choose certain identities over others. It takes…

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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

By Ryan Clover-Owens | April 14, 2012

Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s: of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women–of the irrepressibly daredevilish…

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