Join us today for a conversation with Dr. L. Ayu Saraswati, author of SCARRED: A FEMINIST JOURNEY THROUGH PAIN. 

SCARRED explores how pain is not only personal, but also structural, social, and political. The book invites readers to address pain and live with it in a way that is more life-sustaining, social-justice oriented, and feminist, and to go beyond the neoliberal approaches of positive thinking and self-help.

Facilitated by Dr. Joanne Rondilla, San Jose State University. 

BIO: 

Dr. L. Ayu Saraswati is an award-winning author and professor in women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Hawai`i. She is the author of Pain Generation: Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie (Nautilus book award winner) and Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia (National Women's Studies Association Gloria Anzaldúa book award winner). She serves as board member at Women’s Studies Quarterly, consultant at EVERYBODY Consulting, and acquisition editor at Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly Journal.