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SUMMARY:Queeriosity: Writing + Performance Workshop (Youth Centered)
DESCRIPTION:Queeriosity: Writing and Performance workshops celebrates LGBTQQIA+ youth voices in the Bay Area. Taught by Youth Speaks poets including Sarah O’Neal and Janae Johnson. \nEvery Wednesday | March 20th – May 22\n5:00pm – 7:00pm\nat Qulture Collective\, 1714 Franklin St\, Oakland\, CA 94607 (near 19th Street BART) \nThis LGBTQIA+ centered workshop will explore personal and historical narratives that (re)frame perceptions of language\, sexuality & gender. Participants will be encouraged to write\, learn performance techniques\, and create the dopest space imaginable. \nSign-Up: https://goo.gl/forms/OWMXtikx5RvHzBnB3 \n**First time and/or experienced writers are encouraged to attend. This is intended to be a space where your authentic self is not only welcomed- it’s celebrated.** \nNote: This is a FREE youth-centered (13-19 years old) Workshop\, and anyone can join! 🙂
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LOCATION:Qulture Collective\, 1714 Franklin Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:KASSIDAT: Spoken word and music
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers and Musical guests: tba \nWith your host Bloodflower \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPosted in LIVE POETRY
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kassidat-spoken-word-and-music-4/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Darius James
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University and New York Review Books in conjunction with City Lights present an afternoon with \nDarius James \n \ncelebrating the eagerly awaited re-release of his seminal novel \nNegrophobia: An Urban Parable \nintroduction by Amy Abugo Ongiri \npublished by New York Review Books \nDarius James’s scabrous\, unapologetically raunchy\, truly hilarious\, and deeply scary Negrophobia is a wild-eyed reckoning with the mutating insanity of American racism. A screenplay for the mind\, a performance on the page\, a work of poetry\, a mad mix of genres and styles\, a novel in the tradition of William S. Burroughs and Ishmael Reed that is like no other novel\, Negrophobia begins with the blonde bombshell Bubbles Brazil succumbing to a voodoo spell and entering the inner darkness of her own shiny being. Here crackheads parade in the guise of Muppets\, Muslims beat conga drums\, Negroes have numbers for names\, and H. Rap Remus demands the total and instantaneous extermination of the white race through spontaneous combustion. By the end of it all\, after going on a weird trip for the ages\, Bubbles herself is strangely transformed. \nDarius James is a writer and spoken-word performance artist. He is also the author of That’s Blaxploitation!: Roots of the Baadasssss ‘Tude (Rated X by an All-Whyte Jury); Voodoo Stew; and Froggie Chocolate’s Christmas Eve. His writing has appeared in multiple publications\, including The Village Voice\, Vibe\, and Spin\, and he is the co-writer and narrator of the 2012 film The United States of Hoodoo. He makes his home in Connecticut. \nPraise for the work of Darius James \nLuridly funny and unsparingly smart\, Negrophobia is American arcana of the highest order. And like all truly cool books\, destined to forever be ahead of its time.\n—Paul Beatty \nDarius James is a great writer.\n—Kathy Acker \nI opened James’s book only to topple into hell. In fact\, Negrophobia is the black version of American Psycho.\n—Dany Laferrière\, Los Angeles Times \nI read Negrophobia when I was still in grad school. . . . It was one of those good but rare occasions when I thought there might be one other person in the world that would get what I was doing.\n—Kara Walker\, DB Artmag \nComic\, manic\, and amazing\, [Negrophobia] tells more about American race relations than all of the walking dead suburban experts\, academics\, and think tank whores who tell their fellow suburbanites about how it feels to be black.\n—Ishmael Reed \nJarring\, outrageous images hurtle from nearly every page of this postmodern vivisection of the contemporary African American condition…. There is imagination and wicked humor in all of this\, as well as some piercing insight.\n—Publishers Weekly \nThis is a novel of exposure\, not solution. Those willing to take the ride will find language and imagery that provide an understanding of everything offensive and American. To see Bubbles dragged through the mire of racial and sexual taboos is to experience the reclamation of the icons and stereotypes that are the signposts of relations among Americans. It’s not an altogether pleasant experience. No one who reads Negrophobia is playing in the dark — just lost in it. The novel\, however\, is no more unpleasant an experience than\, say\, having a police baton swung at your body\, or having a steel-tipped boot kick you a few hundred times after you’ve been dragged out of your tractor-trailer. With its feet firmly planted in the satiric tradition of Voltaire Ishmael Reed\, John Kennedy Toole\, and Okot p’Bitek\, James’s book is both timely and necessary.\n—Christian Haye\, The Village Voice \nWild\, non-stop phantasmagoria…In style\, theme\, and tone\, the work of performance artist James is somewhat reminiscent of Ishmael Reed or Amiri Baraka\, but his dialog is snappier. The vibrant prose makes for lively reading. Highly recommended.\n—Library Journal \nThe black version of American Psycho…One says to oneself: Either this guy is literally crazy or I’m in the presence of a real writer…Something very serious has occurred to the American psyche\, and that this thing is tied to racism\, and that Darius James’ delirium was necessary to explain it.\n—Dany Laferriere\, Los Angeles Times \nA pop-schlock phantasmagoria that owes as much to William Burroughs as it does to S. Clay Wilson. James’s raucous debut is by far the best novel to emerge from New York’s Lower East Side literary scene.\n—Kirkus \nDarius James is a great writer.\n—Kathy Acker \nDarius James is one of the funniest writers in America\, and one of the most serious. His subject is the big one: slavery; his questions are the big ones: who is slave to what?\n—George Trow \nComic strip\, sci-fi flick\, vaudeville\, black-faced minstrel show\, and lyrical poem all rolled into one. Negrophobia is a funky\, raunchy\, angry\, hilarious nightmare vision of black culture. A ferocious send-up of African-American stereotypes and white racism. Darius James bursts into literature with a wild\, surrealistic imagination.\n—Catherine Texier \nDarius James is a dazzling scenarist\, a wanton imagist and a nubile perpetrator of the great felony on new literature. This is a writer of blazing intensity. Forever may he wave.\n—Joel Rose \nThis book is not a novel but a curse which will explode in your mind and cause your bottom to drop out. Of all the neo-hoodoo cosmogonic jesters\, Darius James proves himself to be the most promising.\n—Steve Cannon
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LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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