Welcome to the Blood, Skin, and Water Book Launch and Signing!
Join us on Fri May 17 2024 at 7:00 PM at beer brats & beats for an exciting evening celebrating the release of Camille's latest book. Meet the author, get your copy signed, and enjoy some great food and music. Don't miss out on this opportunity to connect with fellow book lovers and be a part of this special occasion.
•guest performances by local poets:
Julia Gaskill, Little Blue, Janae, and DW
Plus, music by DJ Ashé.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Blood, Skin, and Water is a complicated letter of love and lament to familial legacy and how it informs the physical and spiritual self. At its core, it’s a story of resilience through a Black, queer, and disabled lens. Despite loss, death, illness, and the violent experience of being Black and femme in a world that loves to hate—I am still here. My community is still here; and we deserve to cry, curse, love on each other, disappear into our heads, then celebrate when we find our way out.Blood, Skin, and Water is a testament to being—in spite of it all.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR :
Camille McDaniel is a Portland, Oregon-based poet, fiber artist, copywriter, and cat enthusiast. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Rue Scribe, Variety Pack, $, Sundress Publications’A Body You Talk To: An Anthology of Contemporary Disability, and was a finalist for the Frontier Poetry Industry Prize. She’s lived in Long Beach, Boston, Harlem, Paris, and (a true Sagittarius) is constantly fighting the urge to make another drastic change in scenery.
