How do we build community in midlife? What does it mean to be a sports fan in a middle-aged body? Why are so many women-of-a-certain age getting Valkyries tattoos? We’ll discuss the intersection of women’s sports, intergenerational community and the collective power of rooting for the same team.

​Audacious Wilson is a poet and memoirist and one of four co-founders of HYSTERIA, Oakland's first women's sports bar. Kate Schatz is a die-hard Valkyries fan and feminist author, most recently of the novel, Where the Girls Were. Against the backdrop of the Golden State Valkyries historic WNBA Playoffs run, this conversation will explore why women’s sports offers such a powerful entry point for community even if, or maybe especially if, you don’t identify as an athlete.

Join us at Local Economy on Wednesday, October 14th, 6-8pm in celebration of creativity, connection and community. Artist Jen Bloomer's new collection will be up on the walls, and local author and community builder Courtney Martin will lead a panel discussion that includes comedian and documentary filmmaker W. Kamau Bell, artist Wendy MacNaughton, community leader Stephanie Balon, urban farmer Alfred Montenegro, and bestselling author Kate Schatz.

​Music, refreshments, and good people abound. Free for members or $10 for non-members. Space is limited.

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SHIFTING THE NARRATIVE: A Political and Personal Examination of Adoption and Reproductive Justice Join the Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club on Monday, September 14, from 6–7:30 PM for a conversation on reproductive rights, bodily autonomy, adoption, and access to care. This timely panel brings together three influential Bay Area advocates: Gretchen Sisson, Ph.D., a sociologist whose data on adoption was cited in the Supreme Court’s Dobbs dissent and whose leadership in Emerge America is building a pipeline for Democratic women to hold office; Kate Schatz, a queer feminist New York Times-bestselling author who co-founded Solidarity Sundays to build nationwide networks of local feminist groups; Samantha Gonzalez, a Co-Founder of Reproductive Justice in Adoption; and Susan Kiyo Ito, an acclaimed educator and theatrical performer who has spent decades exploring adoption stigma and reproductive privacy through performance and literature on stages across the United States. Together, they bridge the decades between the pre-Roe "Baby Scoop" era and our post-Dobbs reality, unearthing the silenced stories of motherhood, systemic pressure, and the true path forward for reproductive justice.

Water, girls, and the stories they carry.

Join Chiara Barzini and Kate Schatz at Clio's for an intimate conversation anbout water, bodies, and cities.

Barzini's Aqua is a genre-bending work of memoir, travel, and cultural history, tracing how water reshaped Los Angeles, the history of film, and the American imagination. Schatz's Where the Girls Were is a haunting historical novel set inside a San Francisco maternity home in 1968 where young women were sent away to disappear.

Together, these books explore what is hidden, controlled, displaced, and erased—whether they be water, bodies, cities, or stories. Moderated by anthropologist Cari Borja, this evening explores how writers draw courage from one another, how cities script our inner lives, and how history lives inside the body.

Chiara Barzini is an award-winning Italian screen and fiction writer. She writes and translates both in English and Italian and is the author of the short story collection Sister Stop Breathing (Calamari Press, 2012) and the novel Things That Happened Before the Earthquake (Doubleday, 2017) which was a Best Book of the Year for Vogue, Esquire, Elle, Bustle, and the Guardian, and a best summer book for The New York Times, Publisher’s Weekly, BBC, and Oprah! magazine. Her fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals. She has a regular column in Repubblica and is a Literature Advisor at the American Academy in Rome.

Kate Schatz is a New York Times bestselling author, public speaker, writing teacher, and queer feminist parent who's been talking, writing, and teaching about race, gender, social justice, and equity for many years. Her books include the novel Where the Girls Were and Do the Work: An Anti-Racist Activity Book (with W. Kamau Bell), along with the "Rad Women" book series (including Rad American Women A-Z, Rad Women Worldwide, and Rad American History A-Z), which have sold over 300,000 copies and been translated into four languages and Rid of Me: A Story, published in 2007 as part of the cult-favorite 33 ⅓ series. Her writing has also appeared in print in places like Buzzfeed, LENNY, Joyland, Oxford American, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

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