Alysia Abbott is the author of Fairyland, A Memoir of My Father, which details her life growing up in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury as the only child of gay poet and writer, Steve Abbott. The memoir was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, an American Library Association Stonewall Award winner, and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. The New York Times says "Fairyland is a daughter's compassionate, clear eyed reckoning with the truths that defined her singular girlhood at the dawn of the gay liberation movement." Alison Bechdel writes, "Fairyland is a love story that not only brings a new generational perspective to a history we're in danger of forgetting, but irrevocably shifts the way we think about family itself."... Read more about Fairyland, A Memoir of My Father -- book reading and talk by Alysia Abbott

This talk is a part of the Mahindra Humanities Center BBQ+: Studying Black, Brown, and Queer seminar, which discusses key debates and new approaches at the intersection of critical race theory, postcolonial/decolonial and indigenous theory, and queer theory. BBQ+ interests are rooted in the mixed and hybrid identities of those living in late capitalism and in this age of...

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