

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth by Daisy Hernández
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 19 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 19 Feb, 2026 at 08:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Citizenship is a powerful portrait of one family’s experiences in the borderlands of citizenship &amp; an honest illumination of this countryAbout this EventWe are thrilled to host an event with Daisy Hernández to celebrate the release of Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth. For this event, Daisy will be joined in conversation by Sarah Schulman. This event will be held at the bookstore and is free to attend, but will also act as a fundraiser for Midwest Immigration Bond Fund. A portion of all book sales at the event will be donated to MIBF and we ask you to donate if you are able.A provocative, personal, blazingly intelligent examination of one of the most vexing questions facing the United States today: Who is, and should be, a citizen?“How did ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free’ turn upside down to where we are today? Everyone needs to read this book, citizens and non-citizens alike. Brilliant!”—Sandra Cisneros“The most comprehensive book on citizenship/immigration I’ve ever read. A must-read!”—Javier Zamora“The book I have always wanted to read.”—Jose Antonio Vargas“Personal, profound, engaging, and comprehensive . . . this is an essential book for these contentious times.”—Booklist (starred review)In this one-of-a-kind book, Daisy Hernández fiercely interrogates one of the most complicated subjects of contemporary life and politics: citizenship. Braiding memoir, history, and cultural criticism, she exposes the truths and lies of how we define ourselves as a country and a people. Turning to her own family’s stories—her mother arrived from Colombia, while her father was a political refugee from Castro’s Cuba—Hernández shows how the very idea of citizenship is a myth, one of the stories we tell ourselves about the American soul and psyche.Reframing our understanding of what it means to be an American, Citizenship is an urgent and necessary account of the laws, customs, and language we use to include and exclude, especially those who come from Latin America. With her scholar’s mind and memoirist’s gift for narrative, Hernández weaves a story both personal and national, while reckoning with our country’s ongoing debate about who belongs and providing fresh ways of thinking about citizenship. At once bracing, fearless, and tender, Citizenship is a powerful portrait of one family’s experiences in the borderlands of citizenship and an honest illumination of the country in which we live.Daisy Hernández is the author of The Kissing Bug, winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the inaugural title for the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Program. Her memoir, A Cup of Water Under My Bed, won Lambda Literary’s Dr. Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award and was a Publishing Triangle Award finalist. She co-edited the classic feminist anthology Colonize This! and is an associate professor of creative writing at Northwestern University.Sarah Schulman is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer, and AIDS historian. Her books include The Gentrification of the Mind, Conflict Is Not Abuse, and Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993, and the novels The Cosmopolitans and Maggie Terry. Schulman’s honors include a Fulbright in Judaic Studies, a Guggenheim in Playwriting, and honors from Lambda Literary, the Publishing Triangle, NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists, the American Library Association, and others. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, New York, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times, and The Guardian. Schulman holds an endowed chair in creative writing at Northwestern University and is on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace.Accessibility: This event is hosted at the bookstore, which is a wheelchair accessible space. Masks are required. Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis. To request ASL interpretation for this event, please email events@womenandchildrenfirst.com by no later than 14 days before the event. For other access needs please email .
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Chicago
- **state**: IL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Women & Children First
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- **full address**: Women &amp; Children First, 5233 North Clark Street, Chicago, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 19 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
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