Charis welcomes Sonora Jha in conversation with Sarah Ladipo Manyika for a celebration of How to Raise a Feminist Son: Motherhood, Masculinity, and the Making of My Family. A beautifully written and deeply personal story of struggling, failing, and eventually succeeding at raising a feminist son, this empowering book follows one mother's journey as a single immigrant woman of color in America. This event takes place on crowdcast, Charis' virtual event platform. Register here.

From teaching consent to counteracting problematic messages from the media, well-meaning family, and the culture at large, the author offers much-needed insight and actionable advice.

Informed by Jha's work as a professor of journalism specializing in social justice movements and social media, as well as by conversations with psychologists, experts, other parents and boys--and through stories from her own life and wide-ranging research--How to Raise a Feminist Son shows us all how to be better feminists and better teachers of the next generation of men in this electrifying tour de force.

Includes chapter takeaways, and an annotated bibliography of reading and watching recommendations for adults and children.

Sonora Jha, PhD, is an essayist, novelist, researcher, and professor of journalism at Seattle University. She is the author of the novel Foreign, and her op-eds and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Seattle Times, The Establishment, DAME, and in several anthologies. She grew up in Mumbai and has been chief of metropolitan bureau for the Times of India and contributing editor for East magazine in Singapore. She teaches fiction and essay writing for Hugo House, Hedgebrook Writers' Retreat, and Seattle Public Library.

Sarah Ladipo Manyika is a novelist, short story writer, essayist and founding books editor for Ozy.com. Her debut novel, In Dependence, is an international bestseller while her second novel, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun, has been translated into a number of languages. Her nonfiction includes personal essays and intimate profiles of people she meets from Toni Morrison to Margaret Busby and Michelle Obama. Sarah currently serves as Board President for the women’s writing residency, Hedgebrook, and is creator and host of the Museum of the African Diaspora's conversations-across-the-diaspora. Sarah is a 2021 Audie finalist, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a San Francisco Public Library Laureate, and a member of the National Books Critics Circle.

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How to Raise a Feminist Son: Sonora Jha in conversation with Sarah Ladipo Manyika