California State University, Bakersfield International Book Club

This year's One Book Project that International Book Club will be reading is Rebekah Taussig's memoir Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body Rebekah Taussig, PhD, is a Kansas City Writer and teacher with her doctorate in Creative Nonfiction and Disability Studies. She runs the Instagram platform @sitting_pretty, where she crafts "mini-memoirs" about her daily life. She lives in a tiny, old house with her fussy family of tender-hearted snugglers. (book cover) Check out her Instagram here and consider following her! https://www.instagram.com/sitting_pretty/related_profiles/?hl=en Read this short excerpt from Rebekah's book about how she decided on the phrase "sitting pretty": "Almost five years ago, I started an Instagram account where I could share mini-memoirs narrating life in a body that's rarely represented, let alone represented with nuance. I'd been writing essays, sending them out whenever I could bear the vu...

California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB) is located in Bakersfield, Kern County of southern California. As of 2021, Bakersfield has a population of about 407,000 people, ranking 1st in Kern County, 9th in California, and 52nd in the United States.  The most popular industries in Bakersfield are agriculture and oil. Grapes, citrus fruits, almonds, carrots, cotton, and roses are most commonly produced in Bakersfield, and about 10% of domestic oil is harvested here. CSUB is located in the San Joaquin Valley and is a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) in which about 70% of students have a Hispanic background. The San Joaquin Valley provides CSUB with a unique and exciting ecosystem, acting as a Kit Fox habitat and hosts a community of ground squirrels all throughout campus! Every fall semester, CSUB participates in the Kern One Book Project (One Book, One Bakersfield, One Kern) in which freshman composition courses read the text together, share ideas and comprehension, and colla...