Authors: KB Brookins & Anastacia-Reneé

Moderator: Amanda Johnston

Books: KB Brookins, FREEDOM HOUSE; Anastacia-Reneé, SIDE NOTES FROM THE ARCHIVIST

Event Description: Join KB Brookins and Anastacia-Reneé for a conversation on queerness, anti-Blackness and the white gaze, politics of the body, and finding freedom through poetry. In Freedom House, follow Brookins through “rooms” as they chronicle their transition, explore climate change and afrofuturism, and deftly move through concepts and questions in a formally diverse collection of poems. In Side Notes from the Archivist, Reneé elevates the enduring power of Black culture through a funkadelic feminist lens, darting through reflections of iconic images and critiques of systemic oppression with a genre-crossing, captivating poetry collection.

Book Signing: 5:15 PM at Main Signing Tent

This event is part of the Texas Book Festival: The 28th annual Texas Book Festival Weekend will take place on November 11-12, 2023 in and around the State Capitol in downtown Austin. The Festival Weekend is FREE and open to all, featuring more than 300 authors of the year’s best books across all ages and genres.

Learn more about the festival here: https://www.texasbookfestival.org/attending-the-2023-festival/