On the power of stories and collective healing: A Conversation with Marcie Rendon and Susan Raffo
Cosponsored with the Indigenous Peoples Task Force and Relationships Evolving Possibilities

Join Marcie Rendon and Susan Raffo as they share, and invite others to join the conversation, about the power of claiming, remembering and recreating stories. Friends for over 20 years, Rendon and Raffo will talk about their current books, Sinister Graves, Rendon’s  fiction, and Liberated to the Bone, Raffo’s non-fiction respectively. Both works offer insight into stories as a form of power and community healing. 

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Marcie Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, author, playwright, poet, and freelance writer. A community arts activist, Rendon supports other native artists/writers/creators to pursue their art..  The creative mind behind Raving Native Theater, Rendon curates community-created performances such as Art Is…Creative Native Resilience, featuring three Anishinaabe performance artists, TPT 2019. Rendon was recognized as a 50 over 50 Changemaker by MN AARP and Pollen in 2018; and Rendon and Diego Vasquez received a 2017 Loft Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for their work with incarcerated women. Sinister Graves, Rendon’s most recent Cash Blackbear crime novel is shortlisted for the Minnesota Book Award, 2023.

Susan Raffo is a writer, cultural worker and bodyworker who does much of her work through the Healing Histories Project, a network of abolitionist healers/health practitioners, community organizers, researchers/historians & cultural workers building solidarity to interrupt the medical industrial complex and harmful systems of care, as well as locally as a core group member of REP, a Black-led network showing up to support others in moments of crisis or urgency, with care and respect for the full dignity and autonomy of those in crisis. She is the author of Queerly Classed (1997), Restricted Access (1999), and most recently, Liberated to the Bone, the seventh book in the Emergent Strategy Series with AK Press.

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!