9th Ave: The Ruby x The Freya Project for Brigid Alliance (SF)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Presented by The Ruby and The Freya Project, a reading in support of the Brigid Alliance hosted by Berna Anat and featuring Rita Bullwinkel, Thais Nye Derich, Shanna Farrell, and Virgie Tovar!

Thursday, March 24th at 6pm PT
1231 9th Ave
Or Watch Online

Please note this is a ticketed event. $10 suggested donation. Proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to the Brigid Alliance for their work in providing abortion access to those in need.
Green Apple Books will donate 10% of the proceeds from featured author books sold.
Masks and Proof of Vaccination Required

About the Brigid Alliance

The Brigid Alliance arranges and funds confidential, personalized travel support to those seeking abortion care in increasingly hostile environments. In partnership with a network of funds and providers, we are closing the gap between the right to an abortion and the ability to access one.

About The Ruby

The Ruby is an arts & letters–focused work and gathering space in San Francisco. It’s a 3,800-square-foot multipurpose space for women, trans women, and nonbinary individuals with diverse interests, seeking a welcoming, supportive environment in which to learn, share, and connect. During nights and weekends, The Ruby hosts social gatherings, skill-sharing, political organizing, and more. At The Ruby, members can recharge, focus on — and find inspiration for — their creative work, and get support from a likeminded community.

About The Freya Project

We amplify the work of writers whose stories reveal new points of view and evoke empathy. Their words inspire donations for small, community based organizations fighting for human rights. By supporting them and the work they do in their communities, we can make real, substantive change in the years ahead. Alongside our live and digital events, we help connect our community to the issues they care about. We do this by sharing action-based resources, and amplifying causes & organizations in need of support.

About Berna Anat

Berna Anat is an author, podcast host, rich unmarried auntie and award-winning Financial Hype Woman. That’s her made-up way of saying she creates financial education media that lives at @HeyBerna all over the Internet. After slaying her $50,000 debt, she saved up to quit life and has been traveling the world trying to make money fun again ever since.

About Rita Bullwinkel

Rita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up, which won the 2018 Believer Book Award. Bullwinkel’s writing has been published in Tin House, The White Review, Conjunctions, BOMB, Vice, NOON, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from MacDowell, Brown University, Vanderbilt University, Hawthornden Castle, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large for McSweeney’s and a Contributing Editor for NOON. She lives in San Francisco and teaches at the California College of the Arts.

About Thais Nye Derich

Thais is a feminist scholar and activist who thinks and writes about the social power structures over the female body. Her writing spans many forms including fiction, non-fiction, personal essay, and memoir. Published nationally and internationally in print and online, Thais’s work ranges from her book-length memoir, a novel-in-progress, a creative-nonfiction essay in the She’s Got This anthology, and other publications, most notably in Salon.com, SFGate, BabyCenter, Marin Independent Journal, and Birth Issues Magazine. Interviewed on NPR and KPFA radio stations, Thais speaks at women’s health conferences on self-advocacy while pregnant and birthing. Her book, “Second Chance: A Mother’s Quest for a Natural Birth After a Cesarean,” has won multiple awards including the Winner of the Independent Press Award.

About Shanna Farrell

Shanna Farrell is an interviewer, writer, and audio producer. She is an interviewer at UC Berkeley’s Oral History Center, where she works on a wide variety of projects and specializes in cultural and environmental history. She served as the co-chair for the 2020 Oral History Association Conference. She is the author of A Good Drink: In Pursuit of Sustainable Spirits and Bay Area Cocktails: A History of Culture, Community and Craft. Her writing has appeared in Imbibe, Life & Thyme, PUNCH, Eater, Epicurious, The San Francisco Chronicle, the Oral History Review and other publications. She produces the Oral History Center’s podcast, The Berkeley Remix. She holds master’s degrees from both New York University and Columbia University.

About Virgie Tovar

Virgie Tovar is an author, activist and one of the nation’s leading experts and lecturers on weight-based discrimination and body image. She holds a Master’s degree in Sexuality Studies with a focus on the intersections of body size, race and gender. She is a contributor for Forbes where she covers the plus-size market and how to end weight discrimination at work. She started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight and in 2018 gave a TedX talk on the origins of the campaign. Tovar edited the anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion (Seal Press, November 2012) and she’s the author of You Have the Right to Remain Fat (Feminist Press August 2018), which was placed on the American Library Association’s Amelia Bloomer List, and The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color (New Harbinger Publications 2020). Her podcast, Rebel Eaters Club, is NY-based Transmitter Media’s first original production and is available on Apple, Spotify and Stitcher. In 2018 she was named one of the 50 most influential feminists by Bitch Magazine. She has received two San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Commissions as well as Yale’s Poynter Fellowship in Journalism. Virgie has been featured by the New York Times, Tech Insider, BBC, MTV, Al Jazeera, NPR, Yahoo Health and the San Francisco Chronicle. She lives in San Francisco.

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