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24. Parenting on the Page

Virtual Event

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Hasan Namir, Julietta Singh, and S. Bear Bergman discuss the joys and challenges of parenting, and the ways that they tackle such a personal topic in unique, unexpected formats.

Date: May 7, 2022
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm ET

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Featured Speaker(s)

A photo of an Iraqi-Canadian man with short dark hair and a scruffy short dark beard. He wears a black scoop-necked shirt and stands against a beige wall.
Hasan Namir
Bio
A biracial Indian woman sits with her back against a rough beige stone wall. She wears a purple shirt with a v-beck and has shoulder-length wavy dark hair.
Julietta Singh
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A photo of author S. Bear Bergman--a large trans man with a beard, glasses and short dark hair, wearing a dark blue vest over a light blue button-up shirt-
S. Bear Bergman
Bio
A woman of colour with shjoulder-length brown hair wears a long-sleeved white top. SHe stands against a white background and is laughing, with her right hand half covering her face.
Amil Niazi
Bio
A photo of an Iraqi-Canadian man with short dark hair and a scruffy short dark beard. He wears a black scoop-necked shirt and stands against a beige wall.

Hasan Namir

Iraqi-Canadian author Hasan Namir graduated from Simon Fraser University with a BA in English and received the Ying Chen Creative Writing Student Award. He is the author of God in Pink (2015), which won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Fiction and was chosen as one of the Top 100 Books of 2015 by The Globe and Mail. His work has also been featured on Huffington Post, Shaw TV, Airbnb, in the film God in Pink: A Documentary, Breakfast Television Toronto, CTV Morning Live Saskatoon. He was recently named a writer to watch by CBC books. He is also the author of poetry book War/Torn (2019, Book*Hug Press), children’s book The Name I Call Myself (2020, Arsenal Pulp Press) and Umbilical Cord (Book*Hug Press).

A biracial Indian woman sits with her back against a rough beige stone wall. She wears a purple shirt with a v-beck and has shoulder-length wavy dark hair.

Julietta Singh

Julietta Singh is a writer and academic whose work engages the enduring effects of colonization, current ecological crisis, and queer-feminist futures. She is the author of The Breaks (Coffee House Press, 2021), No Archive Will Restore You (Punctum Books, 2018) and Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements (Duke University Press, 2018). She lives in Richmond, Virginia, with her family.

A photo of author S. Bear Bergman--a large trans man with a beard, glasses and short dark hair, wearing a dark blue vest over a light blue button-up shirt-

S. Bear Bergman

S. Bear Bergman is the author of nine books, founder of Flamingo Rampant press, and frequent consultant in equity and inclusion to business and government. His most recent book is Special Topics in Being a Human, out now with Arsenal Pulp Press. Bear began his work in equity at the age of 15, as a founding member of the first ever Gay/Straight Alliance and has continued to help organizations and institutions move further along the pathways to justice ever since. These days Bear spends his time making trans cultural competency interventions however he can and trying to avoid stepping on his children’s Lego.

A woman of colour with shjoulder-length brown hair wears a long-sleeved white top. SHe stands against a white background and is laughing, with her right hand half covering her face.

Amil Niazi

Amil Niazi is a freelance writer and producer whose work has appeared in The Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post and New York Magazine. She is the showrunner and panelist for CBC’s Pop Chat.

The FOLD is a remarkable and wonderful event for authors and attendees alike. What an amazing community, dedicated to the vital need for inclusive stories and the critical role they play in building a better world.

Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her

Field Guide to the North American Teenager is my first novel and FOLD was my first Canadian literary festival. While American and Canadian culture overlap quite a bit, especially when it comes to bookshelves, Canadian literature is unique and I was very heartened by to be embraced by that community I consider home despite residing in the US. It was a homecoming I didn’t know I needed!

Ben Philippe, author of Field Guide to the North American Teenager

The Festival of Literary Diversity was an absolute joy–the organizers thought of *everything* and by anticipating authors’ needs, they freed us to focus on connecting with the audience and each other. There was no pretension, no posturing–just very genuine conversations with invested writers and engaged readers.

Zetta Elliott, author of Dragons in a Bag

I have been to a lot of writers festivals and the FOLD is definitely near the top of the list of those I want to be invited back to.

Harold Johnson, author of the memoirs Clifford and Firewater

Being part of such a clearly diverse, inclusive and mutually respectful group was thrilling and inspiring: a glimpse of a better world.

Kathy Page, author of Dear Evelyn, winner of the 2018 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize

Wherever I go in Canada and find another writer of colour, we eventually end up gushing about how great the FOLD is, how by normalizing diversity it liberates us to talk to audiences about craft. It’s hard to imagine the literary landscape returning to a prehistoric pre-FOLD era.

Ian Williams, Author of the Giller Prize-winning novel Reproduction

FOLD is a festival experience unlike any other I’ve had. The FOLD team strive to create a space that’s welcoming and engaging, while allowing for curiosity, ingenuity and the fostering of real community – and they succeed, every year.

Alicia Elliott, author of A Mind Spread Out On The Ground

The FOLD is one of the most important literary events on this continent. By focusing on diverse voices and giving authors space to share their stories and speak their truths, it is revolutionizing the writing and storytelling realm as we know it.

Waubgeshig Rice, author of Moon Of The Crusted Snow

Being part of the FOLD community has provided me with a strong sense of belonging. Sharing diverse stories and listening to different voices that broaden my understanding of the world has impacted me as a person and motivated me as a writer.

Ann Y.K. Choi, author of Kay’s Lucky Coin Variety

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