RADAR Productions Presents: JULY QUEER READING SERIES at the San Francisco Library
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016
San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
Latino/Hispanic Room (basement level)
Please arrive by 5:45 PM
==FREE==
Hosted by Juliana Delgado Lopera
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Reading followed by artist Q&A
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FEATURING...
mai đoàn
mai is an Oakland-based poet and teaching a...
RADAR Productions Presents: JULY QUEER READING SERIES at the San Francisco Library
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016
San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
Latino/Hispanic Room (basement level)
Please arrive by 5:45 PM
==FREE==
Hosted by Juliana Delgado Lopera
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Reading followed by artist Q&A
Did we mention there will be cookies?
FEATURING...
mai đoàn
mai is an Oakland-based poet and teaching artist. her work is grounded in the imaginative, the intuitive, the ancestral, and the felt and seeks to create new pathways and portals for healing, resistance, and aliveness. she is the author transgression: things i have learned from my body, self-published under Hematite Press in 2012 and has been a featured poet in reading series such as El Cantil, The Hundy, and Flor y Canto. embedded within radical, queer, and feminist spaces, mai has been a member of MOONROOT, a zine collective by and for queer and trans people in the Asian diaspora and continues to make space for writing, embodiment, and political praxis through the Dreaming Wakefulness Collective. mai recently completed her MFA at Mills College as a Community Engagement Fellow. forthcoming this June, she will be a performing artist in the National Queer Arts Festival through Conjuring Roots.
Mari Naomi
MariNaomi has been making memoir comics since 1997. She's the award-winning author and illustrator of Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22 (Harper Perennial, 2011), Dragon's Breath and Other True Stories (2dcloud/Uncivilized Books, 2014), Turning Japanese (2dcloud, 2016), and the upcoming I Thought You Hated Me (Retrofit Comics, Fall 2016). Her work has appeared in over sixty print publications, and has been featured on numerous websites, such as The Rumpus, The Weeklings, LA Review of Books, Midnight Breakfast, Truth-out, XOJane, Buzzfeed, PEN America and more.
MariNaomi's comics and paintings have been featured in such institutions as the De Young Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco's Asian American Museum, and the Japanese American Museums in Los Angeles and San Jose. In 2011, Mari toured with Sister Spit. She is the creator and curator of the Cartoonists of Color Database and the Queer Cartoonists Database. Visit her website at marinaomi.com.
Gina Gold
Gina Gold grew up in a New York neighborhood thinking “oy vey” was something all black people said. In the 90s, she had a show on a New York cable access channel where she often read from the dictionary for 30 minutes due to lack of material. Currently Gina hosts an event series in Oakland called TMI which features a rotating cast of storytellers giving an unadulterated, often hardcore look at life. Her stories have been featured on NPR's Snap Judgment and Radiotopia's The Heart. She recently performed in Snap Judgment Live at the Paramount Theater in Oakland. She is currently on tour in a comedy show called You’re Funny But You Don’t Look Jewish.
Fisayo Adeyeye
Fisayo Adeyeye is an MFA candidate at San Francisco State University. He has works published in The Collapsar, Little River, Potluck Magazine, and has work forthcoming in Winter Tangerine Review, The Birds We Pilled Loosely, and The Wildness. His chapbook blackfish was just selected as a finalist for the Big Lucks Best Prize Chapbook Contest. Talk to him at tinybluewhales@gmail.com about ants, whales, and any other animals of comparable size.