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Writing The Body In Memoir: How To Work With What Our Bodies Know
Writing the Liminal Body
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August 27, 2026 at Local Economy in Oakland, CA
Parenting a pubescent body while your own is shifting beneath you is complicated, surprising, humbling, frustrating, soft, rugged, potent, poetic, and yes, sometimes absurd territory. Both of you are changing, think, same storm, different seasons. And somehow you're expected to hold it all together.
This is an invitation to stop holding it together, just for a couple of hours.
Ali Lawrence of Four Chambers Writing invites you to come as you are and let those unruly bodies unlock some unruly words — to write, listen, connect, and create at the untamed intersection of puberty and perimenopause. We use poetry as a doorway and the creative unconscious as our guide. Expect laughs, tears, and a brave space to let it rip.
You don't need to be a writer. You just need a pen, some paper, and something you haven't said out loud yet.
(Yes, we write with our actual hands.)
Date:
August 27, 2026
Time:
6:00 PM
8:00 PM
Event website: https://luma.com/7ztcb3ha
Event type:
Uncategorized
Originally posted to:
Rockridge District Association Events Calendar
Local Economy is a small, flexible community space on the College Avenue stretch of Rockridge, a few doors from East Bay Booksellers. It looks and feels like a bright neighborhood storefront set up for people to gather rather than a traditional venue. Inside, most things are organized around a long central table where talks, workshops, book clubs and game sessions all happen in close quarters. more...
