Salt Lake Community College, as part of its Reading Series
program, will host a reading by essayist Aisha Sabatini Sloan Oct. 26, 7 p.m.
in the Multipurpose Room at SLCC’s South City Campus, 1575 S. State Street,
Salt Lake City.
Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Sabatini Sloan was born and raised in Los Angeles and writes
about race and current events, often including analysis of art, film and pop
culture. Her work has earned her finalist nominations for the 1913 First Book
contest, the Write-A-House competition and the Disquiet Literary Prize. Her
essays have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and named “notable” for the
Best American Non-Required Reading and Best American Essays anthologies. She is
a contributing editor for Guernica: A Magazine of Art & Politics and a
staff writer for Autostraddle, and her current work can be found in numerous
publications throughout the country. She has also taught composition,
literature and creative writing at the University of Arizona, Pima Community
College, University of Michigan’s New England Literature Program and at Carlton
College. Sabatini Sloan currently lives in Tuscon.
A passage from her recently published “A Road Trip With
Your Father In Honor of His 74th Birthday, In Playlist Form,” at the
Autostraddle website, reads, “The audiobook that your father has chosen for your journey to
Vermont involves a question that, though explored in a manner that does not
make you feel fully awake, elicits an exchange of raised eyebrows between the
two of you: “Why aren’t Africans, Aborigines and Eurasians the ones who
decimated, subjugated and exterminated other nations? Why indeed.”
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