Jyotsna Vaid and Amy Hoffman, editors of Dream of a Common Movement: Selected Writings of Urvashi Vaid
When:
Wednesday, Jun 25, 2025 7:00p -
8:00p
Wednesday, Jun 25, 2025 7:00p -
8:00p
Where:
Porter Square Books
1815 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02140
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
LGBTQ+, Lectures & Conferences, Social Good
Event website:
https://www.portersquarebooks.com/event/jyotsna-vaid-and-amy-hoffman-editors-dream-common-movement%C2%A0selected-writings-urvashi-vaid
Porter Square Books is excited to welcome Amy Hoffman and Jyotsna Vaid, editors of Dream of a Common Movement: Selected Writings of Urvashi Vaid. This event will take place on Wednesday, June 25 at 7pm at Porter Square Books (1815 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02140).
Our Cambridge store offers validated parking in the lot on Roseland St. behind Lesley's University Hall. See parking details below.
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ABOUT DREAM OF A COMMON MOVEMENT
The Dream of a Common Movement collects essays, interviews, and speeches by the late feminist and civil rights activist Urvashi Vaid, whose pioneering writing and organizing over the course of four decades fundamentally shaped the LGBTQ+ movement. Vaid explores the LGBTQ+ movement's impact on the AIDS epidemic and its challenges as it developed a national presence. She calls out movement leaders and donors for not addressing gender, race, and class issues and passionately argues that the goal of any liberation movement should be transformation, not assimilation. In personal essays, Vaid describes a double consciousness forged by the experience of immigration and a complicated relationship with her Indian-American and lesbian identities. Whether she was focused on the Donors of Color Network, the 22nd Century Initiative, the Lesbian Political Action Committee, or other initiatives she launched, Vaid was steadfast in her vision of a more just society and believed deeply in the power of people coming together to effect change. Offering a window into the breadth of her progressive vision for social change, this volume inspires readers to never stop organizing and marching.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Amy Hoffman is the author of the memoirs Hospital Time, about taking care of friends with AIDS; An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the Gay Community News; and Lies About My Family; as well as the novels The Off Season and Dot & Ralfie. Most recently, she co-edited The Dream of a Common Movement: Selected Writings of Urvashi Vaid, with Jyotsna Vaid. She has taught creative writing and literature at the University of Massachusetts, Emerson College, and the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program. She was editor in chief of Women’s Review of Books for fourteen years, and her essays and reviews have appeared in the Boston Review, the Gay & Lesbian Review, the Women’s Review of Books and many other publications. Her MFA is from the University of Massachusetts. Amy lives in Boston with her wife, Roberta Stone. They have no cats.
Jyotsna Vaid is professor of psychology and women's and gender studies at Texas A&M University, and a Fellow at the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research. Her research has examined the cognitive and neurocognitive impact of knowing multiple languages and writing systems, creative aspects of everyday language use, and how gender and race affect professional visibility in academia. For many years she edited a feminist publication, the Committee on South Asian Women Bulletin. She is the older sister of Urvashi Vaid.
PARKING
Porter Square Books: Cambridge Edition offers validated parking in the lot on Roseland St. behind Lesley's University Hall. Roseland Street is accessible by Beacon Street and Mass Ave. When you arrive at the lot, use the screen on the kiosk to get a ticket.
When you're ready to leave, ask for a validation barcode at the cash register. (No purchase necessary.) Parking is free on weekends and weekday evenings from 6PM-7AM. From 7AM-6PM on weekdays the first 45 minutes are free.
Upon exiting the lot, scan your ticket and choose "validation." Then scan the barcode your received from us. If you have an additional charge, you will be prompted to pay after scanning your barcode.
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