Class Description
The Women’s Social Justice Study Circle offers a common ground for understanding our troubled world and exploring alternative futures. Every other month, women from different backgrounds gather to explore the gap between the ideals of justice and the everyday experiences of injustice. Through reading and dialogue, participants engage in creative and practical thinking from multiple perspectives, with the goal of creating informed global citizens committed to a just, equitable and inclusive world. No reservation or registration is necessary; you are welcome to come as you are able and inclined. We encourage you to read the chosen book ahead of time.
Past book selections:
Parable of a Sower, by Octavia Butler
We Should All Be Feminists, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Immortal Tale of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
Mama Day, by Gloria Naylor
Behold the Dreamers, by Imbolo Mbue
The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward
Little Fires Everywhere, by Celest Ng
Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence, by Brian Clements, editor
Homegoing, by Yaa Gaasi
The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli.
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
Caste by Isabel Wilkinson
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkinson
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
Breaking the Age Code by Dr. Becca Levy
Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder