POCATELLO — The Pocatello Unitarian Universalist Fellowship is pleased to welcome Colin Johnson, who will give a summer salon on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. at the PUUF Meeting House, 426 W. Lewis St. These Sunday salons are weekly gatherings in the summer, where the PUUF has a guest speaker, some shared discussion and music. All are welcome to attend.

Johnson will give a presentation on self-expression and politics, drawing on his personal experience of exploring his identity as a gay man while living in Russia.

Colin’s presentation title, “Our Past is on the Horizon,” comes from Osip Mandelstam’s 1921 essay “The Word and Culture,” which questions the contradictions inherent to culture and to politics as we collectively work to redefine our common futures.

Reflecting on his own experience of these contradictions, Colin will offer his perspective on perseverance in the midst of political exhaustion and tumult.

Visit the PUUF website at pocatellouu.org.