LECTURE - Stories Hold the Cure

Name: LECTURE - Stories Hold the Cure
Start: 2024-10-18T10:30:00-07:00
Location: Corvallis Museum

Schedule

Fri Oct 18 2024 at 10:30 am

UTC-07:00

Location

Corvallis Museum | Corvallis, OR

We all have wounds that resist healing, injuries incurred in moments when we are misunderstood, unseen, unheard—and worse—harmed. These wounds are what former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Tretheway calls the “existential wounds”—the ones that don’t seem to ever heal—and they can trap us into a single narrative of being unworthy, unlovable, irredeemable. We spend so much of our lives tending to the wounds of others, but what if we found the courage to turn inward and look at the places inside of us that throb? What if we summoned the vulnerability to tell not only our doctors where it hurts, but also our friends and family, our co-workers, and our community? What if we started to tell the stories of our scars and author a different narrative of our lives? We all have scars that start as wounds. Stories hold the cure.
Join us as Putsana Reang discusses her award-winning memoir, the impact of “existential wounds,” and the remedy of stories. “Ma and Me” is a powerful story about growing up in an immigrant family and coming to terms with one’s identity as a lesbian. The book has received critical acclaim. It won the Pacific Northwest Book Award and was shortlisted for the Washington State Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
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This lecture will be presented at the Corvallis Museum. Please email [email protected] to reserve an assistive listening device.