Kimberly Dark is an award-winning storyteller, so this event promises to be really great. She will be reading from her new book Fat, Pretty, and Soon to Be Old—a moving, funny, and startlingly frank collection of personal essays about what it means to look a certain way. Or rather, certain ways.

Navigating Kimberly Dark’s experience of being fat since childhood—as well as queer, white-privileged, a gender-conforming “girl with a pretty face,” active then disabled, and inevitably aging—each piece blends storytelling and social analysis to deftly coax readers into a deeper understanding of how appearance privilege (and stigma) function in everyday life and how the architecture of this social world constrains us. At the same time, she provides a blueprint for how each of us can build a more just social world, one interaction at a time.

Venue accessibility notes: the event room is a bit of a walk from the entrance, and there’s a short flight of stairs as well (though there is a lift for people who need that). There’s also no parking lot so it’s on-street parking only.

While in Seattle, Kimberly will also be leading a memoir writing workshop at Hugo House! Find out more here.