AAPI Celebration: On Confluences and Connections by Sangamithra Iyer

Sangamithra Iyer will read from and discuss her debut book, Governing Bodies: A Memoir, a Confluence, a Watershed. Governing Bodies connects family history, ecological grief, the lives of animals, and the memory of water in a lyrical meditation on lineages of nonviolence. In it, Iyer also wrestles with how we live with the legacy of historical harms and how we address the current moment of multiple worldwide crises. The book sits at the confluence of prose and poetry, science and art, and personal and planetary sorrow, and draws from Iyer’s work at the intersections of engineering, writing and activism.