Join RADAR for LITCRAWL at the Lex!
3464 19th Street in San Francisco
7:15-8:15pm
Hosted by Michelle Tea (who, yes, may be in labor on the pool table!)
Featuring...
Thomas Page McBee writes the column "Self-Made Man" for the Rumpus, and his writings on gender have appeared in the New York Times and via @[NjQyMTgzOTU5MjA4MTA3Omh0dHBcYS8vVGhlQXRsYW50aWMuY29tLzo6:TheAtlantic.com], VICE, BuzzFeed, and Salon.Thomas gives lectures on masculinity and media narratives across the country and he live...
Join RADAR for LITCRAWL at the Lex!
3464 19th Street in San Francisco
7:15-8:15pm
Hosted by Michelle Tea (who, yes, may be in labor on the pool table!)
Featuring...
Thomas Page McBee writes the column "Self-Made Man" for the Rumpus, and his writings on gender have appeared in the New York Times and via @[NjQyMTgzOTU5MjA4MTA3Omh0dHBcYS8vVGhlQXRsYW50aWMuY29tLzo6:TheAtlantic.com], VICE, BuzzFeed, and Salon.Thomas gives lectures on masculinity and media narratives across the country and he lives New York, where he is the managing editor of the news and analysis site, PolicyMic. He is the author of Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man.
Maryam Farnaz Rostami is a San Francisco-based contemporary performance artist, director, and writer originally from Texas. She is the child of model minorities. She uses lipsync, movement,narrative, dance and an exaggerated high femme medium to play, destroy and create. Maryam is a co-founder of the performance experiment Nicole Kidman is Fucking Gorgeous, which played winter 2013 at CounterPULSE, and her last evening-length piece, PERSIAN LOOKING, played at CounterPULSE in the summer of 2012. She has played at ZSpace, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the De Young Museum, The Garage, The Stud, the Dana Street Theater, La Pena Theater, Root Division Gallery and Catherine Clarke Gallery. @[NjQyMTgzOTU5MjA4MTA3Omh0dHBcYS8vbWFyeWFtcm9zdGFtaS5jb20vOjo=:maryamrostami.com]
Virgie Tovar is a hot fat Latina femme writer and activist. She is the editor of Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion (Seal Press, November 2012). She holds a Master's degree in Human Sexuality with a focus on the intersections of body size, race and gender. After teaching "Female Sexuality" at the University of California at Berkeley, where she completed a Bachelor's degree in Political Science in 2005, she went onto host "The Virgie Show" (CBS Radio) in San Francisco. She is certified as a sex educator and was voted Best Sex Writer by the Bay Area Guardian in 2008 for her first book, Destination DD: Adventures of a Breast Fetishist with 40DDs. Virgie and her work have been featured by MTV, the San Francisco Chronicle, Bust Magazine, Jezebel, 7x7 Magazine, XOJane, Golden Gate Express and SF Weekly as well as on Women’s Entertainment Television and The Ricki Lake Show. She lives in San Francisco and offers workshops, lectures and coaching worldwide. Virgie has toured North America with Sister Spit: The Next Generation. Find her online at @[NjQyMTgzOTU5MjA4MTA3Omh0dHBcYS8vd3d3LnZpcmdpZXRvdmFyLmNvbS86Og==:www.virgietovar.com.]
Antonia Crane is a writer, performer and visiting professor at UCSD where she teaches Media Writing to students who know more about Tumblr than she does. She's a columnist on The Rumpus and a contributing editor at The Weeklings and The Citron Review. Her work can be found in: Playboy, Cosmopolitan, Salon, PANK magazine, DAME, Slake Los Angeles, The Los Angeles Review and several anthologies like: The Heroin Chronicles, Ladyland and The New Black. Her memoir, Spent was published by Barnacle Books/Rare Bird Lit.
You can Tweet her @antoniacrane and find her book here (Amazon Link)
:@[NjQyMTgzOTU5MjA4MTA3Omh0dHBcYS8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vU3BlbnQtTWVtb2lyLUFudG9uaWEtQ3JhbmUvZHAvMTk0MDIwNzA2MS9yZWY9bGFcYkIwMEZaWDNXWEVcYjFcYjE/cz1ib29rcyZpZT1VVEY4JnFpZD0xMzk4Nzk5NDY5JnNyPTEtMTo6:http://www.amazon.com/Spent-Memoir-Antonia-Crane/dp/1940207061/ref=la_B00FZX3WXE_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398799469&sr=1-1]