September Book Club - Labadee by Joiri Minaya x A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

Impersonations, while deceitful, are key to unveiling truer, repressed motives, desires, and entitlements of the tourist for both Kincaid and Minaya.

The fulfillment of a tourist is often at the expense of a local's survival. Kincaid and Minaya make this known without any escape.

How do we become conscientious travellers, or must we boycott tourism completely? What are the effects of 'sustainable' tourism today in light of climate change and resource extraction, and might it be an emerging brand of neocolonialism?

Please join Ruth & I to discuss these ideas, followed by a general discussion with likeminded strangers, yet to call friends.

1:30pm

Meeting point: State Library of NSW

1:30pm - 2:30pm

Catch up & Chats. Feel free to buy lunch or grab a coffee with a buddy in this time. If we're on schedule, we'll do some Morning Maps & Collage Portraits.

2:30pm - 4:30pm

Discussion time in a non-judgmental, confessional, and intimate circle formation.

Other lil things:

• Free community gathering

• Must be 18 years and over

• If it rains, we may have to postpone, cancel or discuss online.

• Please message @slowreadingbc for any other inquiries.

Word of the Month: Sonder

SRBC acknowledges the Cabrogal people of the Dharug lands on which craft and creation takes place and pays its respect to Indigenous elders past and present, and any First Nations people viewing the event. Always was, Always will be. May we see a liberated world, from Congo to Gaza. Ameen.