Book Clubs & Events

Join us for a release event with disability advocate Tiffany Yu for a discussion of her debut book The Anti-Ableist Manifesto: Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change, and Building a Disability-Inclusive World. Joining Tiffany in conversation is Allie Cannington, Director of Advocacy at The Kelsey.

RSVP here

ABOUT THE BOOK

In The Anti-Ableist Manifesto, Tiffany Yu presents frameworks for conversations, breaks down the language of ableism, and proposes real actions that lead to genuine and authentic allyship. Yu includes contributions from disability advocates, activists, authors, entrepreneurs, scholars, educators, and executives to highlight the importance of an intersectional view of disability and celebrates the power of stories and lived experiences to center the vast range of disabled identities that have far too often been “othered” and rendered invisible.
​Organized from the personal to the professional, the domestic to the political, Me to We to Us, The Anti-Ableist Manifesto offers the tools to become an active anti-ableist including:

• ​Ways to support disabled people within our communities
• Identifying and preventing microaggressions, and removing ableist language from our vocabulary
• How to increase accessibility in public and professional spaces
• How to create truly inclusive events

Order the book here. Choose "local pick up" if you want to pick it up the evening of the event.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tiffany Yu is an award-winning social impact entrepreneur, disability advocate, and content creator. She is the founder and CEO of Diversability, a social enterprise aiming to elevate disability pride and build disability power. Having started her career at Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg, and REVOLT, Yu is now an in-demand corporate speaker, creating an approachable bridge in corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion spaces. Yu is the cofounder of the Awesome Foundation Disability Chapter, serves on the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games Working Group, and was a co-chair of the World Economic Forum Sustainable Development Impact Summit. Her TED Talk, How to Help Employees with Disabilities Thrive, has over one million views. Her work and story have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Business Insider, Marie Claire, Forbes, USA Today, The Guardian and more.

SCHEDULE

6:00 PM Gather and mingle at MATTER
6:30 PM Chat between Tiffany Yu and Allie Cannington
7:15 PM Q&A
7:30 PM Signing and meet & greet

SPACE & ACCESSIBILITY

The Shop at MATTER is wheelchair accessible and has gender-neutral bathrooms. Chairs are provided for all. Please reach out to events@morematter.com with accommodation requests. 

Masks are encouraged.

Join us for a discussion of Tricia Romano's new book The Freaks Came Out To Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Newspaper that Changed American Culture with Lisa Kennedy, the former Village Voice Film Editor.

Tricia Romano began her eight-year career at the Village Voice as an intern, later becoming a columnist. As a contributing writer, she wrote features and award-winning cover stories about culture and music. Her reported column, Fly Life, gave a glimpse into the underbelly of New York nightlife. She has been a staff writer at the Seattle Times and served as the editor-in-chief of the Stranger, Seattle’s alternative newsweekly. A fellow at MacDowell, Ucross and Millay artist residencies, her work has been published in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, the Daily Beast, Men’s Journal, Elle, Alta Journal, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. She lives in Seattle, Washington. This is her first book.
editor-in-chief

ABOUT THE BOOK

A rollicking history of America’s most iconic weekly newspaper, the Village Voice and its muse, New York City.

A rollicking history of America’s most iconic weekly newspaper told through the voices of its legendary writers, editors, and photographers. You either were there or you wanted to be. A defining New York City institution co-founded by Norman Mailer, The Village Voice was the first newspaper to cover hip-hop, the avant-garde art scene, and Off-Broadway with gravitas. It reported on the AIDS crisis with urgency and seriousness when other papers dismissed it as a gay disease. In 1979, the Voice’s Wayne Barrett uncovered Donald Trump as a corrupt con artist before anyone else was paying attention. It invented new forms of criticism and storytelling and revolutionized journalism, spawning hundreds of copycats.

With more than 200 interviews, including two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Colson Whitehead, cultural critic Greg Tate, gossip columnist Michael Musto, and feminist writers Vivian Gornick and Susan Brownmiller, former Voice writer Tricia Romano pays homage to the paper that saved NYC landmarks from destruction and exposed corrupt landlords and judges. With interviews featuring post-punk band, Blondie, sportscaster Bob Costas, and drummer Max Weinberg, of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, in this definitive oral history, Romano tells the story of journalism, New York City and American culture—and the most famous alt-weekly of all time.

Order the book here.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lisa Kennedy writes on popular culture – and has for more than four decades. From 2003 to 2015, she was film critic and later theater critic for the Denver Post. She has been a juror for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism, as well as a juror for the American Film Institute’s Top Movies, Film Independent’s Spirit Awards and the Gotham Awards. A freelancer, she has written for the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Variety, American Theatre, Alta magazine, and Kirkus Reviews. She is currently at work on “Icarus Ascending,” a memoir. But, let’s be honest, none of that would have happened if not for her start at the Village Voice in the late ‘80s.

SCHEDULE
6:30 pm Welcome to MATTER
6:45 pm Tricia and Lisa talk about the Village Voice and journalism.
7:45 pm Book signing with Tricia Romano

SPACE & ACCESSIBILITY

The Shop at MATTER is wheelchair accessible and has gender-neutral bathrooms. Chairs are provided for all. Masks are encouraged.

Film Screening. Details to come.

VORE KING

2016

RUNTIME: 118 Minutes

'Best Documentary' Midwest Weirdfest

'Best Documentary' Underground Film Society

Official Selection NewFilmmakers NY

Official Selection Duluth/Superior Film Festival

Official Selection Minneapolis/St.Paul International

Description: 
VORE KING is a detailed portrait of R.P. Whalen, world famous horror host, trash movie guru, carnival sideshow barker, and America's premier purveyor of vorarephilia fetish pornography. 

Trailer:https://vimeo.com/131272488

The Youth Empowerment Broadcasting Organization (YEBO) is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering BIPOC-identifying youth through the art of storytelling. The Shop at MATTER is hosting YEBO's talented storytellers for this Fall season. The event is not open to the public.