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Book Club: Jessamyn Stanley's Yoke

On the Same Page Jan./Feb.
Monday, 2/14/2022
7:00 - 8:00
Virtual Library

United States

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We discuss SFPL’s On the Same Page book selection for Jan./Feb., Jessamyn Stanley’s, Yoke: My Yoga of Self-acceptance.

 

Jessamyn Stanley is an internationally acclaimed voice in wellness, who is highly sought after for her insights on 21st-century yoga and intersectional identity. 

 

Stanley’s first book, Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear, Get On The Mat, Love Your Body, has inspired global audiences to discover the power of yoga and set forth on a path for personal development. Her highly anticipated second book, Yoke: My Yoga of Self-acceptance (Workman Publishing), is out now. In a series of deeply honest, funny, gritty, thoughtful and largely autobiographical essays, Yoke explores issues of self-love, body-positivity, race, sex and sexuality, cannabis and more, all through the lens of an authentic yoga practice. 

 

Stanley is an award-winning social advocate. She is well-versed on a variety of cultural issues including the modern Black experience, LGBTQIA+ representation and equality in the health industry amongst others. She is the co-founder of We Go High NC, a southern Cannabis Justice organization working to increase cannabis access in prohibition states like hers, and highlight the natural connection between cannabis consumption and prison abolition. The organization operates on a simple truth: No one should be in jail for weed. 

 

Book Clubs

Read, discuss ideas and connect through the many book clubs hosted by SFPL.

On The Same Page

On The Same Page is a bimonthly city-wide read.

This program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.

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