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Thursday, November 20

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An Evening with
Jodie Patterson

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At a time of intense and dehumanizing attacks on transgender people, transgender children, and their families, we must listen to voices that challenge us to think deeply about how every individual can be a force for compassion, connection, and protection.

Jodie Patterson invites us to reconsider what it means to mother—not as self-sacrifice, but as a creative act of building community. What if “mothering” were something anyone could do—a form of leadership rooted in empathy, connection, and care? Drawing from her idea of Genderless Mothering, Patterson explores how reimagining the work of mothers can inspire more inclusive ways of shaping our homes, neighborhoods, and institutions.

Jodie Patterson is an author, activist, and mother of five whose work explores identity, parenting, and social change. The author of The Bold World and Born Ready, she advocates for what she calls “genderless mothering” — a form of care and leadership that transcends gender and builds more inclusive communities. Jodie also serves as Chair of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.

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Friday,
November 14, 10am

The Delta Dialogues
Article club

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Join us for our next Delta Dialogues Article Club on November 14 where we’ll be reading and listening on the subject of joy…

We’re fluent in outrage, less so in delight. Joy, it seems, has become suspect — something naïve, unserious, even indulgent. Ross Gay and Zadie Smith both treat joy as something that resists the current mood: not denial, not naïveté, but a counterpoint to the cynicism of the moment.

In Gay’s conversation with Krista Tippett (On Being), joy isn’t optimism or escape; it’s an insistence on noticing what we love, even when it would be easier not to.

Smith, in her essay “Joy,” argues that real joy is rarely pleasant. It carries risk, loss, and the uneasy sense that something in us has shifted.

Together, they remind us that joy isn’t frivolous — it’s evidence of life refusing to flatten itself into cynicism.

Read / Listen:
– Ross Gay on The Insistence of Joy — On Being
– “Joy” by Zadie Smith — Are.na

Please listen to the podcast in advance so we can dive right in together.

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