RADAR: Gabriel García Román, Ajuan M. Mance, Mira Gonzalez, + Faith Adiele

RADAR Productions Presents: APRIL QUEER READING SERIES at the San Francisco Library

Tuesday, April 12, 2016
San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
Latino/Hispanic Room (basement level)
5:45 PM
==FREE==
Hosted by Juliana Delgado Lopera

Reading followed by artist Q&A
Did we mention there will be cookies?

FEATURING…
Gabriel García Román
Gabriel Garcia Roman was born in Zacatecas, Mexico in 1973 and raised in Chicago. He received his B.A. from The City College of New York where he studied studio art. Garcia is a photo-based artist and craftsman. As an artist, he is constantly looking for ways to counteract the flatness that’s inherent to the medium of photography: weaving, folding, cutting, interlacing prints or collaging are all different attempts at realizing that goal. Photography allows him to explore aspects of his identity and decode the world he lives in. Queer. Mexican. American. Immigrant. Secular. Catholic. Urban Apartment dweller. Country nomad. Queer Icons, his most recent body of work, looks at the
QTPoC community, a disenfranchised community and turns them into heavenly beings. The work has been written up by media outlets like, Fusion, Huffington Post, NPR and The Advocate, to name a few. He currently lives and works in New York City.

Ajuan M. Mance
A lifelong artist, Ajuan Mance works in acrylic on paper and canvas, ink on paper and, for the 1001 Black Men project, ink on paper and digital media. She began writing and illustrating the autobiographical comic series Gender Studies in 2014. Ajuan has participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout the Bay Area, as well as at the University of Oregon, the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, IL, and the Reinhardt-Fisher Gallery in Trenton, NJ. Her work has appeared in a number of publications, including, most recently, Cog, Transition, and Mission at Tenth. A professor of English at Mills College in Oakland, Ajuan art work is partly inspired by her teaching and research in U.S. Black literature and history. A 19th-century African American literature specialist, she holds degrees from Brown University and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Look for a full-color version of Ajuan’s “Requiem for a Hot Comb” in the upcoming Alphabet anthology, from Prism Comics, out this spring.

Mira Gonzalez
Mira Gonzalez is a writer from Los Angeles, CA. She is the author of two books. Her first book was nominated for The Believer Poetry Award and The Goodreads Choice Award. She lost the latter to the guy who wrote Lord of The Rings, who is dead. Her work has appeared widely in print and online, including in Nylon, VICE, The Guardian, Thought Catalog, Hobart, Muumuu House and others.

Faith Adiele
Faith Adiele is author of the memoirs, THE NIGERIAN-NORDIC GIRL’S GUIDE TO LADY PROBLEMS and MEETING FAITH, which won the PEN Open Book Award. She is also writer/narrator/subject of MY JOURNEY HOME, a PBS documentary about her mixed family, and editor of COMING OF AGE AROUND THE WORLD: A MULTICULTURAL ANTHOLOGY. She lives in Oakland, where she runs an African Book Club at Octopus Literary Salon, and teaches at VONA/Voices: Summer Workshops for Writers of Color, California College of the Arts, and The San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.