DEI Book Club
Utica University's Annual Book Club is now a year-long event!
Join Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Student Transitions in book facilitations, author events, community collaborations, and creative readings. We will be partnering with departments across campus, local colleges, and community organizations for a fun series that is educational as well as social. All are welcome!
If you're an avid or an occasional reader, an activist or not, an extrovert or an introvert, this book club is for you!
You can grab a copy of each book at the library or purchase through your local bookseller.
- Barnes & Noble in New Hartford is offering anyone who purchases a book club book and shows their Utica ID 20% off.
- The Utica University Bookstore will offer 10% off each book club title purchased there.
Registered participants will receive discussion questions for each book to help guide the reading process.
For more information and to join the DEI Book Club, contact DEI Administrative Assistant Nina Nguyen at nanguyen@utica.edu.
Days of Distraction (2020) by Alexandra Chang.
"A wry, tender portrait of a young woman - finally free to decide her own path, but unsure if she knows herself well enough to choose wisely."
Book Club Meetings: The DEI book club will meet via Zoom
- 3:30 p.m. | Thursday, September 22
- 3:30 p.m. | Thursday, October 20
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoat of Femininity (2007) by Julia Serano.
“Julia Serano shares her experiences and insights—both pre- and post-transition—to reveal the ways in which fear, suspicion, and dismissiveness toward femininity shape our societal attitudes toward trans women, as well as gender and sexuality as a whole.”
Book Club Meetings: The DEI book club will meet via Zoom
- 3:30 p.m. | Thursday, November 17
- 3:30 p.m. | Thursday, December 15
Contact Us
Nina Nguyen
Nina Nguyen
DEI Administrative Assistant
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