Virtual Author Visit: Jena Friedman
Join us at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 10 for an online evening with celebrity comedian and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Jena Friedman In this event, she’ll discuss her debut collection, Not Funny, which takes on the third rails of modern life in Jena’s bold and subversive style, with essays that explore cancel culture, sexism, work, celebrity worship, and…dead baby jokes. In a moment where women’s rights are being rolled back, fascism is on the rise, and so many of us could use a breather as we struggle to get by, Jena applies her unique gifts to pull a laugh from things deemed too raw, too precious, and too scary to joke about. She shares her stories of taking on those who told her she was too brash, edgy, and “unlikable” to make it. She deftly dissects how we get coerced into silence on the issues that matter most until they’ve gone too far afield to be turned back around again. And she shares her struggles to make it (-ish) in a world that, more often than not, would rather tune out than listen to a woman confronting the indignities we’ve been told to bear.
