Book giveaway: New memoir by Hari Ziyad
I’m pleased to announce a new book giveaway for a memoir by Hari Ziyad, an author, artist, screenwriter, and abolitionist, Black Boy Out of Time available now.
One of nineteen children in a blended family, Hari Ziyad was raised by a Hindu Hare Kṛṣṇa mother and a Muslim father. Through reframing their own coming-of-age story, Ziyad takes readers on a powerful journey of growing up queer and Black in Cleveland, Ohio, and of navigating the equally complex path toward finding their true self in New York City. Exploring childhood, gender, race, and the trust that is built, broken, and repaired through generations, Ziyad investigates what it means to live beyond the limited narratives Black children are given and challenges the irreconcilable binaries that restrict them.
Heartwarming and heart-wrenching, radical and reflective, Hari Ziyad’s vital memoir is for the outcast, the unheard, the unborn, and the dead. It offers us a new way to think about survival and the necessary disruption of social norms. It looks back in tenderness as well as justified rage, forces us to address where we are now, and, born out of hope, illuminates the possibilities for the future.
You can also check out my recent interview with Hari: https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2021/03/14/interview-with-hari-ziyad/
![[left] An illustration of a child facing the right with neck-length, matted brown hair, standing in front of a faded yellow sun that encircles the profile of the child's face. The child's face is hidden behind the mask of another face resembling an adult Hari Ziyad with facial hair and their eyes closed, and there is an outgrowth of dandelions between the two faces. There is an orange butterfly flying to the left of the child's hair and a yellow butterfly flying in front of the hair, and everything is drawn over a pink background. In small cursive white letters above the sun are the words "a memoir," and in white block letters over the child's face are the words "BLACK BOY OUT OF TIME." At the bottom over the red grass are smaller white block letters reading, "HARI ZIYAD." [right] Hari Ziyad, a Black person with a bald head and short facial hair, stands in front of a dark grey background looking into the camera with a slight smile. They are shown from the shoulders up wearing a black knitted sweater, with a black circular earring in their left ear. Photo by Brandon Nick](https://disability-visibility-newsletter.ghost.io/content/images/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https-3a-2f-2fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com-2fpublic-2fimages-2f6764f682-283b-4482-81cb-cef4b3bcaf67_1600x900.png)
Giveaway Details
1) Any disabled person in the U.S. is eligible for this giveaway.
2) The first 10 people to email the Disability Visibility Project will receive a book. If you do not receive a reply to your email please know these books have been claimed.
3) Send email to DisabilityVisibilityProject@gmail.com with ‘Book Giveaway’ in the title of the message.
4) Include the following information in your message:
- First and last name
- Mailing address
- Format you prefer (hardback, paperback, Kindle e-book or audiobook), one type only
Please note: If you must include all the details listed above. I will send this information along with your email address to the the publisher who will reach out to you to confirm details of your order.
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