Events

March 12, 2025
Evanston, Illinois
Book Launch

Reading and Conversation with Michele Weldon, author, journalist, emerita faculty
at Northwestern University and senior leader with the Op Ed project.
Bookends & Beginnings, Evanston, IL.
Time: 6:00 PM

Bookends & Beginnings, Evanston, IL With interviewer Michele Weldon and bookstore owner, Nina Barrett.
Bookends & Beginnings, Evanston, IL With interviewer Michele Weldon and bookstore owner, Nina Barrett.

March 25 and 26, 2025
Houston, Texas

Declaration of “Malinalli Day” in Houston at the Houston City Council

Reading and Signing
Houston Community College, Eastside Campus
Organized by Nuestra Palabra
Time: 7:00-8:30 PM

With City Council Member Mario Castillo, Professor Tony Diaz of Nuestra Palabra, Houston Mayor John Whitmire and City Council Member Julian Ramirez.

March 26, 2025
Classroom Visit                                             
Long Star College, Houston
Organized by Nuestra Palabra

In-Studio Interview at Nuestra Palabra

Saturday, March 1, 2025
Podcast
“Vulgar History” Podcast Hosted by Ann Foster
TIME: Noon CT 

April 3, 2025
Virtual Event
Poderista Book Club Event
Poder Circle Book Club Discussion featuring the January-March Book Club Pick: Malinalli
TIME: TBD

April 16, 2025
Virtual Event
Tomes & Textiles Book Club Discussion with Carmen Alvarez  

April 26, 2025
Los Angeles

Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
“Dreaming of Dark Realities & Alternate Worlds.”
Panel session with Aiden Thomas and Lilliam Rivera

Los Angeles Festival of Books "Dreaming of Dark Realities & Alternate Worlds" With authors Aiden Thomas “The Sunbearer Trials” (@aidenschmaiden) and Lilliam Rivera “Tiny Threads” (@lilliamr).
Los Angeles Festival of Books “Dreaming of Dark Realities & Alternate Worlds” With authors Aiden Thomas “The Sunbearer Trials” (@aidenschmaiden) and Lilliam Rivera “Tiny Threads” (@lilliamr).

September 18, 2025
Virtual Event

Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event
The Future is Latinx: New Generation
Panel session with Carolina Florez-Cerchiaro, Alejandro Heredia, Sofia Robleda and Sandra Prodman (moderator)

November 8-9, 2025
Austin, Texas

Texas Book Festival 2025
November 8
“Threads That Bind Us: Culture, Memory and Story”
Panel session with Adela Pineda Franco and Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamante (moderator)

November 9
“Rewriting History, Reimagining Reality”
Panel session with Ruben Reyes Jr. and Evan Narcisse (moderator)

Texas Book Festival, Austin "Rewriting History, Reimagining Reality" With Evan Narcisse (moderator), journalist, comic book writer and video game narrative designer, and Ruben Reyes Jr. author of “Archive of Unknown Universes” (@rubenreyes_jr)
With Adela Pineda Franco, editor of the anthology “Los Muertos,” Lozano Long Endowed Professor in Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, director of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute at the University of Texas, Austin (@francoadela)
and Celeste González de Bustamante (moderator), Director of the Center for Global Change & Media at the Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin.

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