Poetry, Storytelling, & Book Celebration with Sunu P. Chandy & Virginia L. Bartlett
4901 Canal St.
New Orleans
LA 70119
Tubby & Coo’s Book Shop is pleased to host Sunu P. Chandy and Virginia L. Bartlett for a poetry, storytelling, and joint book celebration! This event will be held in person at HI-BALLZ, 4901 Canal St.
This event is free and open to the public. Of course, we highly recommend purchasing books to support the authors and us!
Please note Tubby & Coo’s has a zero tolerance policy for harassment or intimidation of any kind during our events.
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About the Books
ABOUT MY DEAR COMRADES
In her poetry collection, Sunu P. Chandy includes stories about her experiences as a woman, civil rights attorney, parent, partner, daughter of South Asian immigrants, and member of the LGBTQ+ community. These poems cover themes ranging from immigration, social justice activism, friendship loss, fertility challenges, adoption, caregiving, and life during a pandemic. Sunu’s poems provide some resolve, some peace, some community, amidst the competing notions of how we are expected to be in the world, especially when facing a range of barriers. Sunu’s poems provide company for many who may be experiencing isolation through any one of these experiences and remind us that we are not, in fact, going it alone. Whether the experience is being disregarded as a woman of color attorney, being rejected for being queer, losing a most treasured friendship, doubting one’s romantic partner or any other form of heartbreak, Sunu’s poems highlight the human requirement of continually starting anew. These poems remind us that we can, and we will, collectively rebuild.
ABOUT ELEMENTS OF MORAL EXPERIENCE IN CLINICAL ETHICS TRAINING AND PRACTICE: SHARING STORIES WITH STRANGERS
Elements of Moral Experience in Clinical Ethics Training and Practice: Sharing Stories with Strangers, was recently published by Routledge as a genre-spanning memoir of encountering ethical and moral issues with patients, families, and care providers in hospital settings. It explores clinical experiences as embodied, interpersonal, and communal through a consultant’s personal stories and philosophical reflections. The book surfaces themes of disruption, vulnerability, and uncertainty; embodiment, gender dynamics, and disability; self-reflection and affiliation with others; religious and cultural, communal and institutional values; and personal and interpersonal experiences of anxiety, judgment, and shame in the experience of caring for, even loving, the stranger – which are often silenced or ignored in healthcare settings. The stories invite readers’ reflections on these themes in their personal lives and in clinical practice – and highlight the necessity of storytelling in our communities of care.
About the Authors
Sunu P. Chandy (she/her) is a social justice activist including through her work as a poet and a civil rights attorney. She’s the daughter of immigrants from Kerala, India, a queer woman of color, and lives in Washington, D.C. with her family. Her award-winning collection of poems, My Dear Comrades, was published by Regal House in 2023. Sunu’s creative work can also be found in publications including Asian American Literary Review, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Poets on Adoption, Split this Rock’s online social justice database, The Quarry, and in anthologies including The Penguin Book of Indian Poets, The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood and This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation. Sunu is currently a Senior Advisor with Democracy Forward. Sunu is delighted to celebrate her first collection of poetry, My Dear Comrades, with all of you and with the book’s fabulous cover artist, Ragni Agarwal.
Virginia L. Bartlett, Ph.D. (she/her) is the Assistant Director of the Center for Healthcare Ethics and Assistant Professor in Biomedical Sciences at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California. She serves as a clinical ethics consultant, provides ethics education across the medical center and community, serves on institutional, local, and national boards and task forces, and researches the practices and contexts of clinical ethics consultation. Virginia lives in Baton Rouge with her partner and their blended family.