A Live Event in NYC
To celebrate friendship, community, and a new vision of “home”
Beloveds, we’re so excited to announce our upcoming event, GROUP CHAT: When Friends Become Family.
We will be LIVE and in person on September 30 as part of the Brooklyn Book Festival. Please join us over drinks in the Lower East Side, at Caveat, for a cozy short film screening, panel conversation, and community book swap.
We will be in conversation with our dear friend,
, author of “Group Living and Other Recipes,” to celebrate the release of her book, and to talk about what it means to build a home life with friendship at the core.We’re asking everyone to bring a book from their shelves that they are ready to part with. We’ll sit together, write some tender epigrams, and offer our newly inscribed books to one another. Who knows, you may even leave with some new community of your own.
We’ve opined frequently about how the “traditional” milestones of life –marriage, home ownership, nuclear family – often seem farther and farther out of reach, or simply out of sync to the rhythm of modern life. Folks are marrying later (if at all) and having fewer kids. Many are finding that the insular nature of nuclear family and single-family home ownership doesn’t suit everyone. What if these milestones no longer serve us as a one-size-fits-all approach to a fulfilling life?
We know that isolation and loneliness are on the rise. We heard about it in our conversation with elder advocates in our most recent podcast. It’s not limited to our elders; we’re all feeling the bite of social fragmentation [some of us even more than others]. This event is a chance for us to gather together to talk about other ways forward; new models that can help us meet modern life together.
Although her home life looks quite different from ours, it’s been delightful to read how much Lola’s values and philosophies jive with ours when it comes to community building, commitment to her chosen family, building a creative life – and deconstructing the default norms that assume life must revolve around a romantic partner.
Not everyone has to live communally like Lola. Not everyone has to raise children with their friends, as we do. But we can all benefit from profound connection; caring for our people, and being cared for in return by our nearest and dearest.
Please pull up a seat on Sept 30. Tickets are available HERE on sliding scale of $5-20, but contact us if finances are a barrier. We want you there.
xo.
The radio show this week featured a mix of new music, transitional moods, and summery bops for this liminal, pre-fall/post-summer moment. Drop the needle with your besties:
Would so love to go to this!!
Can’t wait!