IRL Author Talk: How to Say Babylon with Safiya Sinclair + francine j. harris - July 28 @ 3PM CST

The paperback of How to Say Babylon is here and we're celebrating the power of Saifya Sinclair's memoir!  EVENT DEETS When: Sunday, July 28 @ 3PM CST Where: Project Row Houses (2521 Holman Street, HTX, 77004) How: RSVP ONLY to reserve you seat or RSVP WITH BOOK to support the author and our programming ABOUT THE BOOK Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair’s father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat of what Rastas call Babylon, the immoral and corrupting influences of the Western world outside their home. He worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure, and believed a woman’s highest virtue was her obedience.In an effort to keep Babylon outside the gate, he forbade almost everything. In place of pants, the women in her family were made to wear long skirts and dresses to cover their arms and legs, head wraps to cover their hair, no make-up,