📚 Join our Book Club for Trans Visibility Week! ROAR by Shelley Thompson 🌈

Book club is back on campus! This month, we're diving into a powerful story of fierce allyship, enduring love, and gentle hope with Roar, a family’s journey through grief and estrangement as they become catalysts for change in their rural community. Told from multiple points of view, with confidence and tenderness, actor and screenwriter Shelley Thompson's debut novel is profoundly authentic, drawing on her own experience as the mother of a trans child and a fierce activist for the trans community.

🌟 Why Read This Book?

• Gain insights into diverse experiences within the Trans community.
• Foster empathy and understanding through engaging discussions.
• Honour Trans experiences through learning and awareness.

🗓 When: Tuesdays (Nov. 5th-19th) at 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m..

📍Where: The Axe Bar and Grill (Acadia student Union Building) and virtually on Teams.

Whether you’re familiar with the topic or eager to learn more, everyone is welcome! Let’s come together to celebrate authenticity, share our thoughts, and support one another.

✨ Bring (or buy) lunch and an open mind! ✨

Reach out to equity@acadiau.ca to sign up and borrow a copy of the book. Or check your local libraries!

If you would like to purchase your own copy, you can do so through Nimbus Publishing: https://nimbus.ca/store/roar.html

Don't miss the film Screening and Q&A with Shelley Thompson later this month: https://www2.acadiau.ca/testbed/event-reader/film-screening-of-dawn-her-dad-and-the-tractor.html