Join the Visibility:2024 campaign in welcoming to campus Bushra Rehman, author of Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion (Macmillan, 2022)! For fans of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, this is an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer love in a Muslim-American community.

This off campus event includes an author reading, audience question and answer session, and an opportunity to mingle over light refreshments in the cozy space of Still North!

Undergraduate students receive a complimentary non-alcoholic/barista beverage with their Dartmouth ID.

A free copy of Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion will be given to the first 50 undergraduate students in attendance of each event (Dartmouth ID required). Additional copies will be available for purchase on site.

Support WISE with your book purchase: Throughout April, Still North Books and Bar will donate 20% of sales of Bushra Rehman's books to WISE!

Bushra Rehman’s dark comedy, Corona, was chosen by the NY Public Library as one of its favorite books about NYC. She is co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism and author of the collection of poetry Marianna’s Beauty Salon, described by Joseph O. Legaspi as “a love poem for Muslim girls, Queens, and immigrants making sense of their foreign home–and surviving.” Her new novel, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion, is a modern classic about what it means to be Muslim and queer in a Pakistani-American community was chosen as a Best Book and Editor’s Choice by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, People Magazine, Good Morning America, Goodreads, The Chicago Review, BuzzFeed, Lit Hub, Lambda Literary, BookRiot, PopSugar, The AV Club, E! News, Ms. Magazine and more.

Visibility:2024 is made possible with support from: Office of Pluralism and Leadership (OPAL), Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity (IDE), Dean of the College, Collis Center for Student Involvement, Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault (SPCSA), Still North Books and Bar, and other campus partners.

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Visibility:2024 is Dartmouth’s annual student-led campaign to promote gender equity and combat power-based violence. All programs and events are free of charge and in physically-accessible venues. For more information and/or accommodations, email Assistant Dean Amanda Wong at opal.wag@dartmouth.edu.