Lena Dunham and “Girls” producer Jenni Konner have announced a tour for their feminist newsletter Lenny Letter. Joining Dunham and Konner on the Lenny: America IRL Tour are contributors including Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield, Jenny Zhang, Rachel McKibbens, and others. In a press release, Dunham and Konner said they “will be talking, reading, playing music, showing films, asking and answering questions for, by, and of the women [they] meet.” Below, find the current schedule for the Lenny: America IRL Tour, and find the full list of speakers here. Check out Crutchfield’s new Lenny interview here.
In their statement, Dunham and Konner elaborated:
Lenny is taking its singular mix of politics, entertainment and conversation on the road. Imagine if the beat poets weren’t a bunch of ego-driven guys and there were no methamphetamines? Well, there you go! Instead of publishing our newsletter from the comfort of our office we want to engage in a larger conversation across America, with women whose experiences may differ from ours but who share the same essential goals: freedom, self-actualization and the perfect night out. We will be talking, reading, playing music, showing films, asking and answering questions for, by, and of the women we meet. Our plan is to create a sense of community in every city we stop in, and to take what we learn from that community with us as we continue our work as a resource for women who love humor without snark, politics without a filter and—above all—learning about each other’s truth.
Waxatachee’s new album, Out in the Storm, is out July 14 via Merge. It follows 2015’s Ivy Tripp. Read our track review of the album’s “Silver,” and revisit “How Allison and Katie Crutchfield’s P.S. Eliot Came to Be” on the Pitch.
Lenny: America IRL Tour:
05-31 St. Louis, MO - The Sheldon Concert Hall
06-01 Lexington, KY - Lexington Opera House
06-02 Chicago, IL - Harris Theatre
06-03 Saint Paul, MN - Fitzgerald Theatre
06-05 Des Moines, IA - Hoyt Sherman Place
06-06 Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theater
Watch Waxahatchee perform “Bonfire” at Pitchfork Music Festival 2015:
via Matthew Strauss
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