Today! ▼▲Sarah Schulman & Virgie Tovar in Conversation▼▲

Join RADAR Productions for... Sarah Schulman & Virgie Tovar in Conversation This public dialogue will center Schulman's newest book, "Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair" Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/Conflict-Not-Abuse-Overstating-Responsibility/dp/1551526433 ▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼ Monday, October 24, 2016 Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110 ==FREE== ▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼ Sarah Schulman is a fiction writer, essayist, and playwright, and the author of eighteen books,including the novels The Cosmopolitans, Rat Bohemia, and Empathy, and the non-fiction books The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination and Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences. Her latest non-fiction book is Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair (October 2016). Her many honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship (Playwriting), a Fulbright Fellowship (Judaic Studies), and the Kessler Award for Lifetime Contribution to LGBT Studies. She is a Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the City University of New York College of Staten Island. Virgie Tovar is an author, activist and one of the nation’s leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is the founder of Babecamp, the editor of the ground-breaking anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion (Seal Press, November 2012) and the mastermind behind #LoseHateNotWeight. She holds a Master’s degree in Human Sexuality with a focus on the intersections of body size, race, and gender. Virgie has been featured by the New York Times, MTV, Al Jazeera, the San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan Magazine Online, and Bust Magazine. Find her at www.virgietovar.com. About "Conflict Is Not Abuse:" From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between Conflict and Abuse, Schulman directly addresses our contemporary culture of scapegoating. This deep, brave, and bold work reveals how punishment replaces personal and collective self-criticism, and shows why difference is so often used to justify cruelty and shunning. Rooting the problem of escalation in negative group relationships, Schulman illuminates the ways cliques, communities, families, and religious, racial, and national groups bond through the refusal to change their self-concept. She illustrates how Supremacy behavior and Traumatized behavior resemble each other, through a shared inability to tolerate difference.