May 26, 2026: How we got to healing

Today has double book action to fill up your bookshelves. And with interesting connections. Storytelling as Healing is a presentation at the Northampton Center for the Arts that seeks to  center the power of storytelling, connection, and community in the movement to end domestic violence and support survivors. Featuring authors and readers of work that examines these experiences and situations, the evening highlights the power of the written word as a part of ongoing process and endurance. We’ll speak writers Patricia Lee Lewis and Mydalis Vera as well as Marianne Winters of Safe Passage about this Thursday’s event. And speaking of important and powerful histories on the page “Queer and How We Got Here” is a massive wide ranging new non-fiction graphic book from author-illustrator Hazel Newlevant that ties key moments and figures from queer history to their own life and gender journey. This Sunday folx have a chance to meet them at Comics N' More in Easthampton and ask their own questions about this information packed tome, but we sit with the author first to see how their own life is inestricable from the ones that came before.