We Keep Us Safe: A Writing Workshop Exploring Personal and Community Safety With Josina Manu Maltzman

Date and Time

Tuesday Jan 13, 2026
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Tuesday, January 13th
4 - 6 pm

Location

Driftless Fiber Arts Collective
108 Coffee Street East
Lanesboro, MN 55949

Fees/Admission

Free

Website

https://driftlesscollective.org/

Contact Information

driftlessfiberartscollective@gmail.com
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Description

Join us at the Driftless Fiber Arts Collective for We Keep Us Safe: A writing workshop exploring personal and community safety on January 13th from 4 - 6 pm. This workshop will be followed by a Tuesday Talk with writer and organizer Josina Manu Maltzman.

What is safety? How do our histories and experiences inform when and how we feel safe? What are the systems in place that are meant to keep us safe, and how do they fail us? In this session we’ll read from authors such as Joy Harjo and Roxane Gay, use writing prompts to explore our personal relationship to safety, and look at tools to help strengthen our networks to promote personal and community safety. The session is led by Josina Manu Maltzman, author of “Ride Safe,” and a core member of Relationships Evolving Possibilities (REP), a community safety project in the Twin Cities.

About the reading:
Josina received a MN State Arts Board grant to promote their new chapbook essay "Ride Safe: One dyke's journey to healing from the West Bank to the West Coast." The essay is framed around a series of solo motorcycle trips Josina took starting in 2005 and wrestles with three primary questions: What is "safety"? How does one's positionality inform when and how a person feels safe? And what is our individual role in community safety? You can read or listen to the full essay on Josina’s website, and Josina will be bringing copies of the chapbook on tour.

Josina Manu Maltzman (all pronouns) is a writer, carpenter, and organizer who believes we all have a role to play in ending genocide and settler colonialism. Josina is published in several anthologies and won the 2025 Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction. For more please visit their website www.josinamanumaltzman.com

About Tuesday Talks

Driftless Fiber Arts Collective hosts monthly Tuesday Talks, opportunities to hear from local folks about local happenings, initiatives, opportunities and more. All Tuesday talks are free and open to the public. Driftless Fiber Arts Collective’s purpose is to extend Lanesboro, Minnesota’s status as an Art Campus, cultivating a communal learning space and engaging creative exploration of craft, words, and games.

Questions? Have an item of interest for a future Tuesday? Email us at driftlessfiberartscollective@gmail.com.