Join me & Joan Gelfand @ Book Soup 📕🥣in West Hollywood!
Over the years you've likely heard me gush about my amazing friend, poet, activist and fellow dreamer, Joan Gelfand! Dana and I produced an award-winning short-film with her about one of her most epic poems. In addition to her many books, I've been encouraging her to tell her story, and she’s finally done it…and it’s mind-blowing 🤯.
Outside Voices just launched and was an instant Amazon.com bestseller.
Her book is filled with so many heart-wrenching and inspiring stories about how she found her teenaged self, quite by accident, amid the Berkley Revolution.
If you're in LA this Friday, join me LIVE and in Person at this FR*EE event, as I play HOSTESS with the mostess at the legendary BOOK SOUP!
Here's a little blurb about "Outside Voices":
Second-wave feminism, inspired by Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzug, and Betty Friedan is swelling into a tsunami. Women are joining together to change power dynamics in politics, the home, and the workplace.
On election day, Joan Gelfand casts her vote for George McGovern and boards a plane from New York to California. With one introduction to a woman musician, Joan's journey to become a writer is born. Embraced by a thriving women's community of artists, filmmakers, musicians, poets, and writers, Joan is encouraged to find her voice.
Mentored by paradigm-changing writers, Joan finds the courage to face her darkest fears through poetry and art, mining the trauma she experienced after losing her father and questioning her Jewish identity. Reminiscent of Paris in the twenties, Greenwich Village in the sixties, and Berlin in the eighties, Berkeley in the seventies was the "it" city of America.
Outside Voices reports the ups and downs of finding one's way as an artist, living with a women's band, forging an independent Jewish identity, founding a women's restaurant, and becoming a published writer and songwriter while exploring the limits of sexuality and spirituality. The story includes road trips to music festivals in the woods, beaches in Mexico, concerts in Southern California, and a retreat in the Pacific Northwest.
A triumphant story of determination and will, Outside Voices is a backstage look at the women's movement that sets the stage for decades of change. This book is a firsthand look at how the power of community emboldened innovation, social change, and self-discovery.
