Name: Freedom: Essays with Zinzi Clemmons
Start: 2026-10-15T18:30:00-0700
End: 2026-10-15T20:00:00-0700

Thursday October 15, 2026 6:30pm - 8:00pm PDT

$5 MI members / $15 gen public

Co-presented with Museum of the African Diaspora & Mechanics’ Institute

Join Zinzi Clemmons in conversation with Faith Adiele on Clemmons's latest essay collection, Freedom, a deft mix of memoir, family history, criticism, and reportage, drawing on a vast range of material from Joan Didion to James Baldwin, political analysis and history to Clemmons’s own experiences across the globe. In elegiac prose, Clemmons trains her discerning eye on American institutions and mythologies, probing the bounds of liberation and autonomy to interrogate our most enduring quest—the relentless pursuit of freedom for all. Doors at 6:00pm.

Moderators

Faith Adiele

I'm the author of Meeting Faith, an award-winning account of ordaining as Thailand’s first Black Buddhist nun that is widely taught, is the subject of multiple studies, and regularly appears on essential travel listicles. I am also author of four hybrid chapbooks/memoirs about my Nigerian/Nordic/American heritage... Read More →

Speakers

Zinzi Clemmons

Zinzi Clemmons' novel What We Lose was a finalist for the NBCC John Leonard First Book Prize and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. A National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree, she was raised in Philadelphia by a South African mother and an American father. A cofounder of the literary journal Apogee, she lives... Read More →

Thursday October 15, 2026 6:30pm - 8:00pm PDT
Mechanics’ Institute 57 Post St, San Francisco

Nonfiction

City San Francisco

Litquake 2026

Faith Adiele

Zinzi Clemmons

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Litquake 2026

Faith Adiele

Zinzi Clemmons

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