Fruita for Equality is a collaboration to support equality, inclusivity, and diversity through meaningful conversations and action in the community.
March 2022n
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Find diverse reading lists
through Mirrors and Windows
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Mirrors and Windows is a reading challenge that seeks to broaden readers' awareness of other cultures, identities, and experiences. Although the "official" Mirrors and Windows reading program has ended, the book and resource lists have remained popular with people seeking diverse reading choices.
Resource categories include African American, Asian American, Women, Latin American, LGBTQ+, Native American, People Experiencing Poverty and Homelessness, Middle Eastern, Jewish, Immigrants and Refugees, and Abilities. Each category contains age-appropriate reading lists for kids, teens, and adults, and all you need is your library card to start browsing.
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From the Mesa County Oral History Project
An Immigration Story
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In this 1980 oral history interview, Mesa County resident Henry Spomer describes growing up in a German settlement in Russia, including home life, farm practices, schooling, and the Lutheran Church. He talks about moving to Nebraska in his teenage years to escape looming military placement during the Russian Revolution, and eventually moving to Mesa County, where he worked as a beet farmer, railroad employee, and janitor for the Lowell School.
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The Fruita for Equality Committee met on Tuesday, March 8, to discuss the group's next project. A Design Thinking tool called Affinity Mapping was used to gain a better understanding of the members' priorities and areas in which they’d like to focus.
If you would like to contribute your perspective to the conversation, a digital version of the activity can be found here.
The discussion led to the committee focusing on two issues within the community. Those issues are access to housing and representation of the LGBTQ+ community in Fruita.
At our next meeting, the committee will bring ideas and timelines so that the group can better determine the scope of our next project.
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The April Fruita for Equality meeting is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 4, at the Fruita Branch Library IdeaLab or virtually via Zoom.
Agenda:
- 2022 Planning
- Further discussion of the Affinity Map results
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"In her hit Netflix comedy special 'Baby Cobra,' an eight- month pregnant Ali Wong resonated so strongly with viewers that she became a popular Halloween costume. Wong told the world her remarkably unfiltered thoughts on marriage, sex, working women, and why you never see new-mom comics on stage but you sure see plenty of new dads.
Wong's sharp insights and humor are even more personal in this completely original collection. She shares the wisdom she's learned from her career in comedy and reveals stories from her life off stage, including the brutal single life in New York (e.g., the inevitable confrontation with erectile dysfunction), reconnecting with her roots (and drinking snake blood) in Vietnam, being a wild child growing up in San Francisco, and parenting humiliations. Though addressed to her daughters, Ali Wong's letters are absurdly funny, surprisingly moving, and enlightening (and gross) for all." - Dust jacket
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A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country, women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred. |
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