"Being my Own Damn Hero: Stories of Guts and Grit" Generation Women at Joe’s Pub
I was approached by Jessica Lore and writer Georgia Clark to be part of their storytelling night, Generation Women, which celebrates and amplifies women’s voices and creativity. Each month, six women of note read an original piece on a theme. Of those women, one is in her 20s, her 30s, her 40s, her 50s, her 60s and her 70s+. The diverse, multi-generational line-ups create an intimate and impactful literary salon. The prompt was "Being my Own Damn Hero: Stories of Guts and Grit", and privately, as a hobby I write poetry, love literature, and recently started to write short stories.
Writing nonfiction and fiction is new for me and to give myself confidence, I said yes to this opportunity to not only share my writing, and meet new people, but also to perform at Joe’s Pub. Every performer had an interesting unique story that was full of humor, wit, and warmth. There is a bit of trepidation around aging like career and sense of self, to name a few, so being surrounded by women who expressed just a microscopic time in their life was nurturing in a way that I wasn’t expecting.
Joe’s Pub is an iconic venue in the artistic scenes, and being welcomed in this eclectic creative hub was a dream. Thank you, Georgia, Jessica, everyone at Joe’s Pub, and our photographer Christopher Scalzi!
