Kimberly's EngagementsUpcoming EventsMarch 2, 2021
Zoom The Hope Desk, 3pm PST/6pm EST It's like a social equality help desk where she'll answer questions that folks have been writing in. Zoom in and listen as Kimberly addresses at least two issues per week, maybe more, depending on your questions in the chat box. Anyone can sign up and join the call—and it's FREE! Tell your friends, your students, your parents, anyone who still thinks of social issues like it's 1975. |
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March 9, 2021
Zoom
Lake Washington Institute of Technology: Fat, Pretty, and Soon to Be Old
It'll be my pleasure to help students celebrate Women's History Month with stories from Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old, along with some discussion about hierarchy based on appearance and identity and how wrong that is - even in 2021. Still! (Can you believe we've not fixed that yet? I guess I'll just keep at it. Will you join me?)
March 12, 2021
Zoom
Ku'ikahi Mediation Center: Practice Makes Permanent, 10am-2pm PST
We'll have 4 hours to practice this time: Now that you've learned about the importance of being a thoughtful and active bystander when conflict occurs, and now that you've learned about how unconscious bias influences us against our better judgement—it's time to practice! Knowledge without skills can be frustrating and if any of Kimberly Dark's trainings have left you wanting more practice time, now's your chance. In this session we'll use small group scenarios and large group discussions. You'll learn to outsmart some of your own unconscious bias, and work with fear when faced with conflict. We'll identify scenarios that emerge again and again in discussions and interactions and practice micro-interventions in small groups. You'll also learn to assess resources for engaging structural interventions. You may even come away with new peers you can connect with about your efforts as a bystander as time goes on. Register for this training here.
March 14, 2021
Zoom
Elderqueer: Fat, Pretty, and Soon to Be Old Discussion, 2pm PST
Elderqueer is discussing my book, Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old on this day and if you're queer and over 40, you're invited! The group will meet for an hour, and I'll join in for the last half hour. Should be fun!
March 15, 2021
Zoom
Cal State San Marcos: You Don't Owe Anyone Pretty, 6pm PST
So glad to be bring this to Cal San Marcos. It's been a few years... and this event is FREE! Registration is over at CSUSM Arts and Lectures.
March 24, 2021
Zoom
Mansfield University of Pennyslvania: You Don't Owe Anyone Pretty
In this moving and hilarious show, Kimberly Dark invites her audience to live in the experience of the body, not the appearance of the body.
March 31, 2021
Zoom
Ka'u Schools: Restorative Justice Training
I'm pleased to be working with the Ka'u schools offering training for teachers and staff as they move closer to a restorative justice approach campus wide.
April 3, 10, 17, 24, 2021
Zoom
Corporeal Writing: Memoir Workshop, 3-5pm PST
This workshop had a long waitlist when we did it in October, so we're doing it again in April!
Yes, these are two hour meetings via Zoom, a week apart for a month. We're going to make things, y'all. We're going to focus on process and understanding how we frame what has happened to us in our lives, how we can use writing as a method of inquiry in order to access and enhance memory. We will spend no time polishing writing (in fact, I hope we write some things we'll never want to share with anyone). Register for this workshop here.
April 5-May 2, 2021
Zoom
Weight Neutral 4 Diabetes Care Symposium: How Health Inequity and Fat Stigma are Experienced (If an interaction felt icky, it probably was!)
I'm so pleased to be joining this symposium. Fat stigma (including high weight bias) is a barrier to care for many patients. It’s also a danger to patients who do access care. Come along to learn how health inequity is connected to fat stigma so you can prevent patient interactions from becoming uncomfortable or icky. You can register here, and learn more about my talk in the title link.
April 6, 2021
Zoom
The Hope Desk, 3pm PST/6pm EST
It's like a social equality help desk where she'll answer questions that folks have been writing in. Zoom in and listen as Kimberly addresses at least two issues per week, maybe more, depending on your questions in the chat box. Anyone can sign up and join the call—and it's FREE! Tell your friends, your students, your parents, anyone who still thinks of social issues like it's 1975.
April 23, 2021
Zoom
Cherish the Child Symposium: Keynote Presentation
I'm pleased to offer the keynote presentation for this year's symposium. I'll be focusing on intersectionality of appearances and identities and how they affect children's care and services.
May 4, 2021
Zoom
The Hope Desk, 3pm PST/6pm EST
It's like a social equality help desk where she'll answer questions that folks have been writing in. Zoom in and listen as Kimberly addresses at least two issues per week, maybe more, depending on your questions in the chat box. Anyone can sign up and join the call—and it's FREE! Tell your friends, your students, your parents, anyone who still thinks of social issues like it's 1975.
May 22, 2021
Zoom
Hugo House: Making Meaning in Memoir, 1:10-4:10 PST
I think lots of places in Seattle are very cool, but yeah, Hugo House for sure. It's a 3 hour workshop on Making Meaning: Turning Memories into Memoir. This'll be hugely generative—come. I'm promising at least twelve ways to connect memory, experience, culture and meaning.
June 1, 2021
Zoom
The Hope Desk, 3pm PST/6pm EST
It's like a social equality help desk where she'll answer questions that folks have been writing in. Zoom in and listen as Kimberly addresses at least two issues per week, maybe more, depending on your questions in the chat box. Anyone can sign up and join the call—and it's FREE! Tell your friends, your students, your parents, anyone who still thinks of social issues like it's 1975.
June 29, 2021
Damaged, Like Me Official Release!
This is my second essay collection with AK Press and I'm so thrilled. (Pre-orders should be available by Fall 2020. You might even get the book early, if you pre-order.)
July 2, 2021
Zoom
The Great Indoor Reading Series: Damaged, Like Me, 8pm EST
I'm thrilled to read for the TGI event again, now that my new book is out. They were a great audience last time (and the three other readers were fab too.) Join us!
July 19-August 1, 2021
Zoom
CSU Summer Arts Social Action Writing: Creating Internet Content
Yes, you can believe your eyes, Summer Arts is going online! So, I have created a course for you that is all about online content. It'll be an intense two weeks, still worth 3 units, but you can also pet your dog and lay on your sofa sometimes too. As internet influencers have taken the spotlight, it’s become clear that internet activism is anything but “slacktivism.” This course focuses on the short essay (including creative writing, opinion-editorial, and expository writing). You’ll learn with the help of professional freelance writers who make a living creating internet content, and youth activists whose work is changing lives NOW. Students will also choose to create one of the following projects: video essay, zine, or webinar. Register now and learn more about our guest artists. (Psst, one of them is the amazing Melissa Fabello!)
September 15-October 13, 2021
Woodside, CA
Djerassi Writing Residency
I'm thrilled to return to Djerassi, where I did a major edit of The Daddies and finished a first draft of Fat, Pretty and Soon to be Old, back in 2011. It's a beautiful, art-filled wilderness. (I mean, just look at the website.) I'm so lucky to return for a second time.
November 11-14, 2021
Detroit, MI
National Women's Studies Association Conference
More info coming soon.
Zoom
Lake Washington Institute of Technology: Fat, Pretty, and Soon to Be Old
It'll be my pleasure to help students celebrate Women's History Month with stories from Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old, along with some discussion about hierarchy based on appearance and identity and how wrong that is - even in 2021. Still! (Can you believe we've not fixed that yet? I guess I'll just keep at it. Will you join me?)
March 12, 2021
Zoom
Ku'ikahi Mediation Center: Practice Makes Permanent, 10am-2pm PST
We'll have 4 hours to practice this time: Now that you've learned about the importance of being a thoughtful and active bystander when conflict occurs, and now that you've learned about how unconscious bias influences us against our better judgement—it's time to practice! Knowledge without skills can be frustrating and if any of Kimberly Dark's trainings have left you wanting more practice time, now's your chance. In this session we'll use small group scenarios and large group discussions. You'll learn to outsmart some of your own unconscious bias, and work with fear when faced with conflict. We'll identify scenarios that emerge again and again in discussions and interactions and practice micro-interventions in small groups. You'll also learn to assess resources for engaging structural interventions. You may even come away with new peers you can connect with about your efforts as a bystander as time goes on. Register for this training here.
March 14, 2021
Zoom
Elderqueer: Fat, Pretty, and Soon to Be Old Discussion, 2pm PST
Elderqueer is discussing my book, Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old on this day and if you're queer and over 40, you're invited! The group will meet for an hour, and I'll join in for the last half hour. Should be fun!
March 15, 2021
Zoom
Cal State San Marcos: You Don't Owe Anyone Pretty, 6pm PST
So glad to be bring this to Cal San Marcos. It's been a few years... and this event is FREE! Registration is over at CSUSM Arts and Lectures.
March 24, 2021
Zoom
Mansfield University of Pennyslvania: You Don't Owe Anyone Pretty
In this moving and hilarious show, Kimberly Dark invites her audience to live in the experience of the body, not the appearance of the body.
March 31, 2021
Zoom
Ka'u Schools: Restorative Justice Training
I'm pleased to be working with the Ka'u schools offering training for teachers and staff as they move closer to a restorative justice approach campus wide.
April 3, 10, 17, 24, 2021
Zoom
Corporeal Writing: Memoir Workshop, 3-5pm PST
This workshop had a long waitlist when we did it in October, so we're doing it again in April!
Yes, these are two hour meetings via Zoom, a week apart for a month. We're going to make things, y'all. We're going to focus on process and understanding how we frame what has happened to us in our lives, how we can use writing as a method of inquiry in order to access and enhance memory. We will spend no time polishing writing (in fact, I hope we write some things we'll never want to share with anyone). Register for this workshop here.
April 5-May 2, 2021
Zoom
Weight Neutral 4 Diabetes Care Symposium: How Health Inequity and Fat Stigma are Experienced (If an interaction felt icky, it probably was!)
I'm so pleased to be joining this symposium. Fat stigma (including high weight bias) is a barrier to care for many patients. It’s also a danger to patients who do access care. Come along to learn how health inequity is connected to fat stigma so you can prevent patient interactions from becoming uncomfortable or icky. You can register here, and learn more about my talk in the title link.
April 6, 2021
Zoom
The Hope Desk, 3pm PST/6pm EST
It's like a social equality help desk where she'll answer questions that folks have been writing in. Zoom in and listen as Kimberly addresses at least two issues per week, maybe more, depending on your questions in the chat box. Anyone can sign up and join the call—and it's FREE! Tell your friends, your students, your parents, anyone who still thinks of social issues like it's 1975.
April 23, 2021
Zoom
Cherish the Child Symposium: Keynote Presentation
I'm pleased to offer the keynote presentation for this year's symposium. I'll be focusing on intersectionality of appearances and identities and how they affect children's care and services.
May 4, 2021
Zoom
The Hope Desk, 3pm PST/6pm EST
It's like a social equality help desk where she'll answer questions that folks have been writing in. Zoom in and listen as Kimberly addresses at least two issues per week, maybe more, depending on your questions in the chat box. Anyone can sign up and join the call—and it's FREE! Tell your friends, your students, your parents, anyone who still thinks of social issues like it's 1975.
May 22, 2021
Zoom
Hugo House: Making Meaning in Memoir, 1:10-4:10 PST
I think lots of places in Seattle are very cool, but yeah, Hugo House for sure. It's a 3 hour workshop on Making Meaning: Turning Memories into Memoir. This'll be hugely generative—come. I'm promising at least twelve ways to connect memory, experience, culture and meaning.
June 1, 2021
Zoom
The Hope Desk, 3pm PST/6pm EST
It's like a social equality help desk where she'll answer questions that folks have been writing in. Zoom in and listen as Kimberly addresses at least two issues per week, maybe more, depending on your questions in the chat box. Anyone can sign up and join the call—and it's FREE! Tell your friends, your students, your parents, anyone who still thinks of social issues like it's 1975.
June 29, 2021
Damaged, Like Me Official Release!
This is my second essay collection with AK Press and I'm so thrilled. (Pre-orders should be available by Fall 2020. You might even get the book early, if you pre-order.)
July 2, 2021
Zoom
The Great Indoor Reading Series: Damaged, Like Me, 8pm EST
I'm thrilled to read for the TGI event again, now that my new book is out. They were a great audience last time (and the three other readers were fab too.) Join us!
July 19-August 1, 2021
Zoom
CSU Summer Arts Social Action Writing: Creating Internet Content
Yes, you can believe your eyes, Summer Arts is going online! So, I have created a course for you that is all about online content. It'll be an intense two weeks, still worth 3 units, but you can also pet your dog and lay on your sofa sometimes too. As internet influencers have taken the spotlight, it’s become clear that internet activism is anything but “slacktivism.” This course focuses on the short essay (including creative writing, opinion-editorial, and expository writing). You’ll learn with the help of professional freelance writers who make a living creating internet content, and youth activists whose work is changing lives NOW. Students will also choose to create one of the following projects: video essay, zine, or webinar. Register now and learn more about our guest artists. (Psst, one of them is the amazing Melissa Fabello!)
September 15-October 13, 2021
Woodside, CA
Djerassi Writing Residency
I'm thrilled to return to Djerassi, where I did a major edit of The Daddies and finished a first draft of Fat, Pretty and Soon to be Old, back in 2011. It's a beautiful, art-filled wilderness. (I mean, just look at the website.) I'm so lucky to return for a second time.
November 11-14, 2021
Detroit, MI
National Women's Studies Association Conference
More info coming soon.
Upcoming Events: 2022
January 2-7, 2022
Pahoa, HI
Body Wise Professional Development Retreat
Join us for this five-day experiential retreat where we'll work on uncovering unconscious bias and explore our own intersections of privilege and oppression and how they influence who we are to others. We'll also rest, write, meditate, move, spend time in water and nurture ourselves and each other on the journey.
May 23-27, 2022
Capetown, South Africa
International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry
More info coming soon.
July 27-August 17, 2022
Berlin, Germany
Summer Arts Berlin: Contemporary Art in Berlin: Visual, Media, Conceptual and Performance Art
Yes, we were scheduled for 2021, and it was sad to postpone, but everyone is still in for this amazing experience in 2022. If you've already applied and been accepted, you're still accepted! Stand by for more info in Spring 2022. If you couldn't go in 2021, you have a new chance. No matter what though, join the FB group for the course (even if you can't come, but want to be in the know). You can read about guest artists and cool stuff even now, while we wait out the pandemic.
Pahoa, HI
Body Wise Professional Development Retreat
Join us for this five-day experiential retreat where we'll work on uncovering unconscious bias and explore our own intersections of privilege and oppression and how they influence who we are to others. We'll also rest, write, meditate, move, spend time in water and nurture ourselves and each other on the journey.
May 23-27, 2022
Capetown, South Africa
International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry
More info coming soon.
July 27-August 17, 2022
Berlin, Germany
Summer Arts Berlin: Contemporary Art in Berlin: Visual, Media, Conceptual and Performance Art
Yes, we were scheduled for 2021, and it was sad to postpone, but everyone is still in for this amazing experience in 2022. If you've already applied and been accepted, you're still accepted! Stand by for more info in Spring 2022. If you couldn't go in 2021, you have a new chance. No matter what though, join the FB group for the course (even if you can't come, but want to be in the know). You can read about guest artists and cool stuff even now, while we wait out the pandemic.
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