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2022: Sharon Lee De La Cruz

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I'm a Wild Seed

By Sharon Lee De La Cruz

Lavender Lit Book Club: June 2022

The Lavender Lit Book Club is a monthly literature series hosted by Women’s Program Curator Suyane Oliveira. Each month, we’ll be reading a new book by a queer woman or non-male-identified author to celebrate queer women and non-men in literature. Click here to learn more. 

Book Discussion
June 15, 2022 | 6:30p (EST)

Author Talk
June 23, 2022 | 6:30p (EST)

About the Book

“In this delightfully compelling full-color graphic memoir, De La Cruz shares her process of undoing the effects of a patriarchal, colonial society on her self-image, her sexuality, and her concept of freedom. Reflecting on the ways in which oppression was the cause for her late bloom into queerness, we are invited to discover people and things in the author’s life that helped shape and inform her LGBTQ identity. And we come to an understanding of her holistic definition of queerness.”

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About the Author

Sharon Lee De La Cruz (she/her)
Sharon De La Cruz is a storyteller, educator, and activist from NYC. Her research and practice are rooted at the intersection of STEM pedagogy, art, and social justice.  Thanks to comic storytelling, she landed in the Tin House Summer Workshop and created her first graphic novel memoir, “I’m a Wild Seed” (Street Noise, April 2021). De La Cruz received her master’s from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, Processing Foundation Fellowship, a TED Residency, and is a 2021-22 Red Burns Teaching Fellow at ITP-NYU. She currently serves as Director of Sustainability at THE POINT CDC, a non-profit dedicated to youth development and the cultural and economic revitalization of the Hunts Point section of the Bronx.