Alice Walker is much more than simply (simply!) the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. She’s a trailblazing feminist, a civil-rights activist who married a Jewish man at a time when interracial marriages were still illegal in some states, and a self-described renegade. (Sample Walker quote: “People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission.”) Beauty in Truth examines her words, her upbringing, her cultural influences, and everything else that makes Alice Walker so fucking iconic. (Bonus: Alice Walker will be present at tonight’s premiere.) (Egyptian, 805 E Pine St, siff.net, 7 pm, $12)
Former Stranger news writer Cienna Madrid has been a writer in residence for Richard Hugo House, a local literary nonprofit. There, she taught fiction classes and wrote 4/5 of a book about a death-row... More by Cienna Madrid