Short Story Sundays: Rebecca Roanhorse

Name: Short Story Sundays: Rebecca Roanhorse
Start: 2025-08-31T17:00:00-04:00
Location: 140 Bank Alley (University Building) , Syracuse, NY, United States, New York 13202

Schedule

Sun, 31 Aug, 2025 at 05:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

140 Bank Alley (University Building) , Syracuse, NY, United States, New York 13202 | Syracuse, NY

SHORT STORY SUNDAYS | Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™ by Rebecca Roanhorse | Sunday | August 31 | 5:00p.m. - 7:30p.m. | FREE + open to public | SIGN-UP HERE: https://forms.gle/2KDPPHW9cZLrQzCx5
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Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™ unpacks performance, possession, and the fragile line between who we are and what the world expects us to be. Jesse, an Indigenous man working in a virtual reality center, sells sanitized visions of Indigeneity to tourists looking for a spiritual fix. When a customer steps out of the simulation and into his real life, Jesse begins to lose his grip on what belongs to him: his name, his story, his place in the world. Roanhorse crafts a haunting tale about stolen narratives and the systems that feed on them. What is left of us when our stories are no longer ours to tell?
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REBECCA ROANHORSE, an award-winning Black and Navajo Nation speculative fiction author, blends science fiction, fantasy, and Indigenous storytelling. Her breakout short story Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™ won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards, and her novels, including Trail of Lightning and Black Sun, have been widely acclaimed.