[IPSM] (MTL) DRC presents Nalo Hopkinson this Saturday Night (7pm @ the de Séve Cinema )

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 The Dragonroot Centre for Gender Advocacy presents
 acclaimed science fiction author Nalo Hopkinson.

 Nalo Hopkinson is the author of the novels "Brown
 Girl in the Ring," "Midnight Robber," and "The Salt
 Roads," and of the short story collection, "Skin
 Folk." She has been awarded Canada's Sunburst Award,
 the World Fantasy Award, and the Gaylactic Spectrum
 Award.

 Date: February 19 at 7 pm
 Location: de Séve Cinema (rm LB-125)
 Webster Library Building
 Concordia University
 1400 de Maisonneauve West

 Childcare available with 48 hrs notification:
 848-2424 ext. 7431
 This event is wheelchair accessible.

Author Bio:
Nalo Hopkinson is of Caribbean background (Jamaica, Trinidad,  Guyana). 
She's  lived in Toronto for the past 28 years.  She is a novelist, short
story writer  and editor who uses   the lens of fantastical fiction to
explore the social  dynamics of gender, race, sex, sexuality and power.
She has published three  novels, a collection of her own short fiction,
and numerous short stories, as  well as editing and co-editing four
anthologies of fantasy and science fiction;

the most recent is « So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction
and  Fantasy,» co-edited with Uppinder Mehan.  She's at work on a new
novel,  currently titled « Mammalian Diving Reflex. »

 For more info on the Dragonroot see our webpage at

http://alcor.concordia.ca/~dragctr/en/dragonroot.html

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