Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding. In this week's virtual social, we will watch Chimamanda Adichie's famed TEDTalk entitled "The Danger of a Single Story," and discuss ways in which single stories limit and divide us, and the ways in which we can resist and challenge the existence and perpetuation of single story narratives.
SAGE Metro Detroit offers these virtual socials for LGBTQ+ and same-gender loving older adults every Thursday from 11 a.m.-12 p.m. EST on the Zoom platform. Registration and Zoom details are as follows: