#TueNightLive: 5-YEAR BIRTHDAY BASH! benefitting VoteRunLead

TueNight is 5!

Age is something to CELEBRATE.

For their birthday edition, they’re bringing back some of their TueNight faves — from Dodai Stewart’s perfect massage, to Susan Linney’s brave “Bottles Down” stories, to Tamar Anitai’s “Silly Things People Say When I Tell Them I Don’t Want Kids” and many more.

We’ll walk down memory lane with old friends and introduce some new ones. Plus, CAKE.

TICKET PROCEEDS WILL SUPPORT:

VoteRunLead trains women to run for office. And win. With more than 33,000 women trained to run for office, VoteRunLead is proudly nonpartisan and is the largest and most diverse campaign and leadership program in the country. https://legacy.voterunlead.org

OUR STORYTELLERS:

Susan Linney (@Susan_Linney) is a former book and magazine editor turned freelance copywriter, editor and digital content producer. From 2013 to 2015, she wrote about her recovery from alcoholism for TueNight in an effort to combat the stigma associated with addiction, because she believes it’s impossible to get well when you’re ashamed of what makes you sick. She’s still a passionate promoter of mental health and addiction awareness, and is happy to tell you her story(ies) any day.

Dodai Stewart (@dodaistewart) is a writer raised in New York. She attended PS 84, Dalton, PS 145, York Prep, the Bronx High School of Science and NYU’s Tisch School Of The Arts. She was the deputy editor (and one of the founding editors) at Jezebel.com, then editor in chief of SplinterNews.com, an award-winning social justice-oriented news site. She has participated, hosted, or moderated panels with Roxane Gay, Tina Brown, and Rebecca Traister, among others, and her writing has appeared in Entertainment Weekly, New York Magazine, Glamour, and the New York Times. Currently, she lives in Manhattan with a misanthropic chihuahua.

Michele Carlo (@Michele_asShell) is the redhead with 8,000,000 stories about New York City. She is a native New Yorker, a Nuyorican, a natural redhead—and an author/performer who has appeared across the U.S., including the MOTH’s GrandSlams and Mainstage in N.Y.C., on NPR with Latino U.S.A. and on PBS with Stories from the Stage. Her debut book, the memoir Fish Out Of Agua: My life on neither side of the (subway) tracks, was published by Citadel/Kensington.

Karen Gerwin (@karengerwin) has always loved storytelling. After nearly 20 years in the publishing world, she needed a change. She co-created the Twitter parody account @paulryangosling with her soul sisters, The Mouthy Housewives, then spent two years snarking on Brooklyn’s favorite family-friendly neighborhood at F***ed in Park Slope. Now she’s having a blast rocking the social media for TueNight.

Tamar Anitai (@tamaranitai) has one husband, two cats, no kids, no car. Midwestern by birth, New Yorker by a 14-year act of stubborn defiance. Digital content strategist for a global agency, and essayist on the occasional off night. Rap game Bea Arthur. Yes, she wants see photos of your cat.

Penny Wren (@pennywren) is a Harlem-based writer who was raised in Lancaster, PA. Penny’s work has appeared in Esquire; Essence; Glamour; Marie Claire; O, The Oprah Magazine and Redbook, among other publications. She writes a weekly (or twice weekly or, sometimes, thrice weekly) column, “Penny For Your Thoughts” for MadameNoire. And, by the way, she doesn’t usually use the word “thrice” in conversation.

OUR LOVELY SPONSORS:

Sponsors still being accepted, please contact Kiara @ hello@tuenight.com for details

A little bit about TueNight…

TueNight is an award-winning platform for women over 40 to share the true, messy, often hilarious stories of their lives. We host evenings on the regular with a variety of authors, each reading her personal essay around a common theme. Check out a few of our past events. Join us!

What people say about us….

“TueNight is a great place to share and exchange work, thoughts and ideas in an intimate and safe environment. I highly recommend it as a speaker or a listener to feel more connected to a wonderful community.” —Stacy London, What Not to Wear

“TueNight is cathartic, emotionally-wrenching, fun with a bunch of wonderful strangers and friends. It’s pretty much the only reason I ever leave my house on a weeknight.” —Lori Leibovich, Time Inc

“A wildly entertaining evening in a raw, visceral setting” — Ines Peschiera, Able.co

“TueNight readings feel like a giant hug from that one friend that *gets* you.” — Amy S Choi, Mashup Americans