The UNC Women’s and Gender Studies Department & the Latina/o Studies Program presents:

Untold Stories About Science & Medicine from the Latinx Diaspora

A virtual discussion with

Daisy Hernández

Thursday November 17^th from 2 – 3 p.m. on Zoom

Please click the following link to register: https://go.unc.edu/DaisyHernandez 

Daisy Hernández is the author of The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease (Tin House, 2021), which won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and was selected as an inaugural title for the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Program. The book was named a top 10 nonfiction book of 2021 by Time magazine and was a finalist for the New American Voices Award. She has spoken about the subject of her book—neglected disease and racial disparities in healthcare—on MSBNC and also with the Carter Center and the Pan American Health Organization.

Her memoir A Cup of Water Under My Bed (Beacon Press, 2014) won the IPPY Award for best coming-of-age memoir and Lambda Literary’s Dr. Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award. The memoir was also a Publishing Triangle Award finalist.

She co-edited the classic feminist anthology Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism (Seal Press), which was first published in 2002 and has become a widely taught text in women’s and gender studies courses. She coedited a new edition in 2019, and the anthology has been praised by scholars and media outlets including USA Today and Buzzfeed for its contribution to understandings of intersectionality.

Her work has been reprinted in several anthologies including the Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction, and her essays and fiction have appeared in numerous publications including Aster(ix), Bellingham Review, Brevity, Dogwood, Fourth Genre, Gulf Coast, Iowa Review, and Rumpus, among others. She is a contributor to the Buddhist magazine, Tricycle.

A journalist, she has reported for National Geographic, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Slate, and her writing has been aired on NPR’s All Things Considered. Her magazine feature on transgender issues in communities of color was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award.

She has received fellowships from MacDowell, Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Djerassi Artist-in-Residence, Blue Mountain Center, and Hedgebrook. She currently serves on the board of the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.

To learn more about Daisy Hernández, check out her website here: https://www.daisyhernandez.com/about 

 

Registration for this event is required. Please click the following link to register: https://go.unc.edu/DaisyHernandez