Author and tarot reader Michelle Ruiz Keil speaks on BIPOC futurisms in a numinous, ecocentric, nonbinary world.
The term BIPOC Futurism is a collective term inspired by Afrofuturism that imagines a decolonized reality. In this talk, author Michelle Ruiz Keil will explore matriarchy as a foundational principle in her exploration and understanding of BIPOC futurism and how she is working to reach beyond binaries in her practices of mothering, partnering, writing, teaching, speaking, and magic. Using tarot cards, Michelle also provides an example of divination as a simple way to disrupt linear thinking and enhance intuition, noticing, and creativity in both life and art.
About the speaker
Michelle Ruiz Keil (she/her) is a writer and tarot reader with an eye for the enchanted and a way with animals. Her sophomore novel, Summer in The City of Roses, releases July 6th, 2021. A Kirkus Reviews "Hottest Summer Read 2021", Publisher's Weekly describes Summer in The City of Roses as a "...surreal, magical realist tale set in 1990s Portland... steeped in fairy tale and myth ...a nostalgic, heady read perfect for a summer day.” Ruiz Keil's critically acclaimed debut novel, All of Us With Wings, called "...a transcendent journey" by the New York Times and "...a fantastical ode the Golden City's post-punk era" by Entertainment Weekly, was released from Soho Teen in 2019. She is a recipient of a 2020 Hedgebrook residency. Her short fiction can be found on Cosmonauts Avenue, The Buckman Journal, and the anthologies Color Outside The Lines and Dispatches From Anarres. A San Francisco Bay Area native, Michelle has lived in Portland Oregon for many years. She curates the fairytale reading series All Kinds of Fur and lives with her family in a cottage where the forest meets the city.
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Videographer Tyler Nordby
