Breaking Up With American Patriarchy: Anna Malaika Tubbs & Savala Nolan

Anna Malaika Tubbs and Savala Nolan are leading Black feminist public intellectuals of our time.

Anna Malaika Tubbs wrote a book about how the mothers of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. and James Baldwin shaped their activism. And then she wrote another book teaching women what American patriarchy hid from us, so that we would be able to see it and break free.

Savala Nolan wrote a book, Don’t Let It Get You Down, about living in between race, body, class and being told not to let any of it get to you. Her new one, Good Woman: A Reckoning, is about rejecting being “a good woman” and what became available to her when she stopped. Ms. Magazine named it a Most Anticipated Feminist Book of 2026.

On Monday, November 16, they're in conversation in Sausalito, and you're invited to be in conversation, too.

ABOUT ANNA MALAIKA TUBBS

Anna is the 2x New York Times bestselling author of The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation and Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden From Us. She holds a PhD in sociology from Cambridge and tells the previously hidden stories of women who built American history.

ABOUT SAVALA NOLAN

Savala is the author of Good Woman: A Reckoning, named a Most Anticipated Feminist Book of 2026 by Ms. Magazine and a finalist for the Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction, and Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body, which the New York Times called "a standout collection" and which was shortlisted for the William Saroyan Prize. She is Executive Director of the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at UC Berkeley Law, and her writing has appeared in Vogue, the New York Times, Harper's, Time, Essence and more. She grew up in Marin.

WHO THIS IS FOR

Women of all ethnicities and generations committed to the safety and freedom of all women. Trans women welcome.

Come on your own and meet people, or bring a friend.

Supper and dessert are included. No-host bar.

Full refunds available if plans change.

SPONSOR THE EVENING

Sponsoring this event puts your company in front of seventy diverse, well-networked, prosperous Marin and San Francisco women. If you or your company would like to sponsor this event, write to karen@karenfleshman.com.

Presented by the Interracial Sisterhood Coalition, where women of different ethnicities and generations build trust, solidarity, and sisterhood.

When women unite across difference, we build the collective power to change everything.