​Feminist Happy Hour returns with a special twist ... cocktails and a book launch!

​Our intention remains the same ... meet and mingle with likeminded people from all corners of the city. Meet our SPECIAL GUEST and take in the glow of feminist baddies. Celebrate the launch of Jacqueline Loweree's newest book, No Need to Kill Fleas with a Gun: Tales of a Drug Mule Girl in Ciudad Juárez. Get your copy at the event with a pre-order ticket.

​All are welcome. Only one rule: No assholes. We ask you to self-identify. Please and thank you.

​Ticket options include pre-ordering a book for pick-up at the event with Jackie. We will have a limited number of copies of the book for sale at the event as well.

​SPECIAL GUEST: Jacqueline Loweree, poet, author, researcher, and strategist.

​Jacqueline Loweree is a poet, writer, anthropologist, and bipolar woman currently based in Harlem in New York City who originally hails from the Mexico border with the United States. For over a decade, she has worked in the philanthropic sector leading efforts in evaluation, impact, and social investment across issues such as HIV, housing, and mental health. She is the author of four poetry collections published in Spain and the United States, where she explores intimate themes such as mental illness, suicide, and the femicides in her hometown, Ciudad Juárez. Her books include: El tiempo de la mariposa (The Time of the Butterfly) (2019), Canciones de una urraca (Songs of a Magpie) (2022), El suicidio del escorpión (The Scorpion’s Suicide) (2023), and De plomo y pólvora (Of Lead and Gunpowder) (2024). In 2025 she published her first collection of nonfiction stories, both in Spanish and English, titled No Need to Kills Fleas with a Gun: Tales of a drug mule girl in Ciudad Juárez published by Nueva York Poetry Press. Throughout her career in social impact, she has collaborated with organizations such as the National Alliance for Mental Illness, the National Institutes of Health, ViiV Healthcare, and Habitat for Humanity International, where she currently serves as a strategist. Her practice, whether through her professional vocation in philanthropy or her writing, weaves together the written and spoken word with social commitment, advocating for justice and empathy.

​No Need to Kill Fleas with a Gun: Tales of a Drug Mule Girl in Ciudad Juárez

​No Need to Kill Fleas with a Gun puts forth an unsparing portrait of the U.S.–Mexico border across ten true childhood chronicles. The author, as narrator, presents her run ins with nonfictional characters like Moy, a tortero murdered for being gay; Chachito, a goat slain before his best friend; Paquita la del Barrio, a feminist Mexican icon; Doña María, an elderly woman who feared dying, and died, while she slept; Canelo, a flea-ridden guard dog; and Juárez itself, a character in its own right. With the simplicity and candor of a child’s perspective, Loweree transforms what could be dismissed as news headlines into multidimensional vignettes that expose the hardship of those caught at the intersection of immigration, an escalating drug war, and the absurd poverty of the borderland in the 1990s. Endemic to this book is the practice of affirmative narratives: portrayals that acknowledge precarity without flattening it, rather insisting on elevating threads of dignity, humor, and imagination. Timely and urgent, these stories lean into the present moment, when lives shaped by hard choices are too often reduced to violence and tragedy. By centering the perspective of a drug mule girl, Loweree invites readers into a story that is jarringly intimate, unapologetically political, and dangerously consequential. A work both tender and piercing, No Need to Kill Fleas with a Gun underscores that resilience is not only a feat of courage but also profoundly human.