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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! 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queeriosity-writing-performance-workshop-youth-centered/
LOCATION:Qulture Collective\, 1714 Franklin Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Neda Atanasoski in conversation with Kalindi Vora
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of their new book \nSurrogate Humanity: Race\, Robots\, and the Politics of Technological Futures \npublished by Duke University Press \n(part of the Perverse Modernities Series edited by Lisa Lowe and Jack Halberstam) \nIn Surrogate Humanity Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora trace the ways in which robots\, artificial intelligence\, and other technologies serve as surrogates for human workers within a labor system entrenched in racial capitalism and patriarchy. Analyzing myriad technologies\, from sex robots and military drones to sharing-economy platforms\, Atanasoski and Vora show how liberal structures of antiblackness\, settler colonialism\, and patriarchy are fundamental to human—machine interactions\, as well as the very definition of the human. While these new technologies and engineering projects promise a revolutionary new future\, they replicate and reinforce racialized and gendered ideas about devalued work\, exploitation\, dispossession\, and capitalist accumulation. Yet\, even as engineers design robots to be more perfect versions of the human—more rational killers\, more efficient workers\, and tireless companions—the potential exists to develop alternative modes of engineering and technological development in ways that refuse the racial and colonial logics that maintain social hierarchies and inequality. \nNeda Atanasoski is Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and author of Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity. \nKalindi Vora is Professor of Gender\, Sexuality\, and Women’s Studies at the University of California\, Davis\, and author of Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor. \nPerverse Modernities transgresses modern divisions of knowledge that have historically separated the consideration of sexuality\, and its concern with desire\, gender\, bodies\, and performance\, on the one hand\, from the consideration of race\, colonialism\, and political economy\, on the other\, in order to explore how the mutual implication of race\, colonialism\, and sexuality has been rendered perverse and unintelligible within the logics of modernity.  Books in the series have elaborated such perversities in the challenge to modern assumptions about historical narrative and the nation-state\, the epistemology of the human sciences\, the continuities of the citizen-subject and civil society\, the distinction between health and morbidity\, and the rational organization of that society into separate spheres.  Perverse modernities\, in this sense\, have included queer of color and queer anticolonial subcultures\, racialized sexualized laborers migrating from the global south to the metropolis\, nonwestern desires and bodies and their incommensurability with the gendered\, national or communal meanings attributed to them\, and analyses of the refusals of normative domestic “healthy” life narratives by subjects who inhabit and perform sexual risk\, different embodiments\, and alternative conceptions of life and death.  The project also highlights intellectual “perversities\,” from disciplinary infidelities and epistemological promiscuity\, to theoretical irreverence and heterotopic imaginings. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/neda-atanasoski-in-conversation-with-kalindi-vora/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cherrie Moraga
DESCRIPTION:Internationally acclaimed artist\, Cherríe Moraga delivers a poetic\, heart-wrenching reflection on her mother’s complex relationship to America and the pioneering\, queer Latina feminist daughter who continues down the path of identity forged by her battle-tested matriarch. \nAs a child\, Elvira was hired out as a child by her own father to pick cotton in California’s Imperial Valley. Leaving California in the late-1920s\, she became a cigarette girl in Jazz-age Tijuana\, meeting a wealthy white man who taught her life lesson of power\, sex\, and opportunity. In her old age\, she suffered under the yoke of Alzheimer’s. In relief against the extraordinary story of Elvira’s life\, is Cherríe’s own journey. Through Native Country of the Heart and her mother’s trials\, Moraga traces her own self-discovery of her gender-queer body and Lesbian identity\, as well as her passion for activism and the history of the pueblo. \nMeet Cherríe Moraga – co-editor of This Bridge Called My Back and cofounder of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press – one of the most influential artist activists working today.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cherrie-moraga/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Franny Choi and sam sax / Soft Science
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Franny Choi (Floating\, Brilliant\, Gone)\, in town to read from her second collection of poems\, Soft Science. Joining her is sam sax (Madness and Bury It). Don’t miss this evening of readings with these phenomenal young poets! \n  \nIn Franny Choi’s highly-anticipated collection\, Soft Science\, she uses the myth of the cyborg to explore queer\, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems guides readers as Choi asks questions not just of identity\, but of consciousness — of how to speak and love\, in a world filled with strange (and sometimes violent) distances. We are dropped straight into the tangled intersections of technology\, gender\, violence\, erasure\, agency\, and loneliness. And we’re asked to examine the biggest question: “What does it mean to be human?” \n  \n\n  \n“Wearing a crown of sonnets like a dime store tiara\, Franny Choi’s cyborg cephalopod is a creature of unending amazements\, unfurling tendril after tendril—some surgical\, some sensual\, some weaponized\, some rubberized—brandishing hypodermics\, vibrators\, cigarettes\, smartphones\, or simply snapping in time to the beat. With uncanny tonal and technical dexterity\, she can play upon your emotions\, tickle your sweet spot\, then press all of your buttons at once. At once raw and radiant\, these brilliant poems are at their most human when they assert their alienness\, at their most ferocious when they dare to be vulnerable.” – Monica Youn\, author of Blackacre  \n  \n“In Soft Science\, the reigning consciousness is split\, human teetering into machine\, machine forced to demonstrate its humanness via acts of ritual testing\, a passion play in which alienation seeks authenticity and dissociation pursues kin. Franny Choi’s generous inventiveness transmutes the book’s violent lore into a ferocious tenderness. In its conceptual heft\, formal virtuosity\, queer imagination\, multi-dexterous approach to language\, and tonal intricacy\, Soft Science is a crucial book for our time – perhaps the book for our time.” – Diane Seuss\, author of Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl \n  \n“Franny Choi’s Soft Science offers an exceptional exploration both of all that comprises the intimate and of all that consumes the communal in our lives. Whether tracking the adventures of the ‘cyborg’ or eavesdropping on conversations between sisters\, it’s all the same world. These striking poems ring through with a singular voice\, creating a society that helps us understand our own. When you open a book of poems\, ‘isn’t that what you came to see?’ Choi builds a world not only of striking beauty and lucid politics\, but also\, more importantly\, with love.” – A. Van Jordan\, author of The Cineste \n  \n\n  \nFranny Choi is a poet\, performer\, editor\, and playwright. She is the author ofFloating\, Brilliant\, Gone and the chapbook Death by Sex Machine. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine\, American Poetry Review\, the New England Review\, and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman Fellow\, Senior News Editor for Hyphen\, cohost of the Poetry Foundation’s podcast VS\, and member of the Dark Noise Collective. Her second collection\, Soft Science\, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in April 2018. A current Zell Postgraduate Fellow at the University of Michigan\, she is currently based near Detroit\, MI. Author photo by Qurissy Lopez. \n  \nsam sax is a queer\, jewish\, poet\, & educator. He’s the author of Madness(Penguin\, 2017) winner of The National Poetry Series and Bury It (Wesleyan University Press\, 2018) winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Lambda Literary\, & the MacDowell Colony. He’s the two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion\, author of four chapbooks & winner of the Gulf Coast Prize\, The Iowa Review Award\, & American Literary Award. His poems have appeared in BuzzFeed\, The New York Times\, The Nation\, Poetry Magazine + other journals. He’s the poetry editor at BOAAT Press & will be a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University this Fall. Author photo by Hollis Rafkin-Sax. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event\, with mature themes. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Soft Science\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/franny-choi-and-sam-sax-soft-science/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poet Laureate Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Foust\, outgoing poet laureate of Marin County will host this event\, welcoming the new poet laureate and honoring previous poets laureate. The evening will feature brief readings by all. \nRebecca’s books include Paradise Drive (Press 53 Award)\, reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement and The San Francisco Chronicle\, and the Georgia\, Harvard\, and Hudson Reviews. The Unexploded Ordnance Bin won the 2018 Swan Scythe chapbook prize and is forthcoming in 2019. Recognitions include the Cavafy and James Hearst Poetry Prizes\, the Lascaux and American Literary Review Fiction Prizes\, and fellowships from Hedgebrook\, MacDowell\, and Sewanee. Passionate about literature for everyone\, not just the educated elite\, and about using it to further social justice\, Foust is happy to be able to promote these goals as Marin Poet Laureate and Poetry Editor for the online magazine\, Women’s Voices for Change.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poet-laureate-celebration-2/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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