We are thrilled to welcome back writer and feminist icon, Clementine Ford. Join us to celebrate Clementine and her latest book, How We Love is: Notes on Life, with a live, in-person event with the author herself. Clementine will be in conversation with Sasha Borissenko.
Tickets
General Admission: $35
Concession: $30
Verb Community members: $28 (check your ReVerb e-newsletter for the code, or email community@verbwellington.nz to receive the code).
ABOUT CLEMENTINE FORD
Clementine Ford is a writer, broadcaster and feminist community builder living in Naarm/Melbourne. She is the bestselling author of the feminist manifestos Fight Like A Girl and Boys Will Be Boys, which have also been published to great acclaim in the UK and the US. In 2017, she won the Matt Richell Award for Best New Writer of the Year at the ABIAs.
ABOUT SASHA BORISSENKO
Sasha Borissenko is a freelance journalist and publicist whose work has appeared in Al Jazeera, VICE, the New York Times, Broadsheet, WOMAN magazine, Capital, Sauce, and more. She spent her early career as a justice reporter but has since found a love of investigative work, feature-writing, and penning a weekly legal column for the NZ Herald. Having degrees in law, performing arts, music, and a master of journalism, she tries (and often fails) to balance a love of the arts, access to justice, and social issues.
ABOUT HOW WE LOVE
This tender and lyrical memoir explores love in its many forms, through Clementine's own experiences. With clear eyes and an open heart, she writes about losing her adored mother far too young, about the pain and confusion of first love - both platonic and romantic - and the joy and heartache of adult love. She writes movingly about the transcendent and transformative journey to motherhood and the similarly monumental path to self-love. 'We love as children, as friends, as parents and, yes, sometimes as sexual beings, and none of it is more important than the other because all of it shows us who we are.'
How We Love is heartfelt, funny, confessional, revelatory, compassionate - and essential reading. It shows us to ourselves in moments of unwavering truth and undeniable joy.
'Sensitive, soulful and utterly captivating.' -Jamila Rizvi, author and editor of The Motherhood
'Such gorgeous and powerful storytelling your heart will feel tender, shattered, and whole-all at once.' -Michelle Andrews and Zara McDonald, Shameless podcast
'Clementine Ford is a phenomenon, unmatched in her fearlessness. Every time I read her work, it feels like I'm putting on armour.' -Benjamin Law, author of The Family Law
'Ford reminds us that, even when they hurt, our feelings are the very meat of life.' -Yves Rees, author of All About Yves: Notes from a Transition
'Everything in How We Love pierced me as I read - the humour, the honesty, the blistering detail. I laughed, and my heart ached.' -Alice Robinson, author of The Glad Shout