On January 15, Bay Area Writers Resist, in solidarity with Writers Resist groups around the world, hosted a night of readings and recommitment to Democracy—a benefit for the International Institute of the Bay Area, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Transgender Law Center:

Hosted by Baruch Porras-Hernandez and featuring, in order:

Ishmael Reed
Tennessee Reed
MK Chavez
Arisa White
D.A. Powell
Jane Hirshfield
Javier Zamora
Elena Rose
(Nonprofits)
Jason Bayani
Natasha Dennerstein
Stacy Nathaniel Jackson
Bich Minh Nguyen (also reading for Margaret Rhee)
Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Tongo Eisen-Martin
Solmaz Sharif

If you weren’t able to make it to the event, but still want to support these critical organizations, those links again are: International Institute of the Bay Area, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Transgender Law Center.

You can also read a recap of the event here.

Image: Sean James Mikula

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Bay Area WRITERS RESIST is part of an international network of literary artists and organizations committed to using writing to encourage and inspire resistance against the injustices threatening so many of us across the country.

Presented in partnership with: Foglifter Press, Fourteen Hills: the SFSU Review, Left Margin Lit, Lone Glen, Omnidawn, Queer Rebels, Quiet Lightning, Starline Social Club, University of San Francisco MFA In Writing program, and Voz Sin Tinta.