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SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake at Jessie Square
DESCRIPTION:The monthly collaboration between Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival and the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival features an array of Bay Area poets and musicians.
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LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Beth Macy\, Dopesick
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author and journalist Beth Macy for a discussion and signing of her important book\, Dopesick—the only book to fully chart the devastating opiod crisis in America. An instant New York Times and indie bestseller\, Dopesick is “a harrowing\, deeply compassionate dispatch from the heart of a national emergency.” (New York Times). This event is part of our year-long effort\, 2020 Vision. \nIn this masterful work\, Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America’s twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction. From distressed small communities in Central Appalachia to wealthy suburbs; from disparate cities to once-idyllic farm towns; it’s a heartbreaking trajectory that illustrates how this national crisis has persisted for so long and become so firmly entrenched. \nBeginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics\, Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mother’s question-why her only son died-and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996\, Macy parses how America embraced a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm. In some of the same distressed communities featured in her bestselling book Factory Man\, the unemployed use painkillers both to numb the pain of joblessness and pay their bills\, while privileged teens trade pills in cul-de-sacs\, and even high school standouts fall prey to prostitution\, jail\, and death. \nThrough unsparing\, yet deeply human portraits of the families and first responders struggling to ameliorate this epidemic\, each facet of the crisis comes into focus. In these politically fragmented times\, Beth Macy shows\, astonishingly\, that the only thing that unites Americans across geographic and class lines is opioid drug abuse. But in a country unable to provide basic healthcare for all\, Macy still finds reason to hope-and signs of the spirit and tenacity necessary in those facing addiction to build a better future for themselves and their families. \nBeth Macy is the author of the widely acclaimed and bestselling books Truevine and Factory Man. Based in Roanoke\, Virginia for three decades\, her reporting has won more than a dozen national awards\, including a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard. \n“Heartbreaking\, exhaustively researched…a fierce indictment of racism\, corporate greed and wily dealers…a terrifying\, essential read.” —People \n“Macy is a terrific reporter\, scrupulous in detailing the significance of her findings…Dopesick‘s second section–filled with gut-wrenchingly candid interviews with addicts and their families–is the most essential\, placing broken faces onto horrifying data sets.” —Entertainment Weekly \n“Macy reports on the human carnage with respect and quiet compassion.” —The San Francisco Chronicle \n“Beth Macy writes about our opioid epidemic but Dopesick is not about the drugs. It’s a book about kids and moms and neighbors and the people who try to save them. It’s about shame and stigma and desperation. It’s about bad policy\, greed and corruption. It’s a Greek tragedy with a chorus of teenage ghosts who know how to text but can’t express how they feel.” —Senator Tim Kaine \n\nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail us at info@bookshopsantacruz.com by August 12th\, 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beth-macy-dopesick/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Kelechi Ubozoh and L.D. Green / We've Been Too Patient: Voices From Radical Mental Health
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Kelechi Ubozoh and L.D. Green\, editors of the new anthology We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices From Radical Mental Health\, along with contributors Jeneé Darden\, Ramon(a) Rio\, Sascha Altman DuBrul\, andShizue Seigel for an evening of readings and conversation. Please join us! \nOvermedication\, police brutality\, electroconvulsive therapy\, involuntary hospitalization\, traumas that lead to intense altered states and suicidal thoughts: these are the struggles of those labeled “mentally ill.” While much has been written about the systemic problems of our mental-health care system\, this book gives voice to those with personal experience of psychiatric miscare often excluded from the discussion\, like people of color and LGBTQ+ communities. It is dedicated to finding working alternatives to the “Mental Health Industrial Complex” and shifting the conversation from mental illness to mental health. \n\n“Justice is not possible unless we make space for the stories of the margins. What more powerful elucidation can there be than to cast light on the margins of the mind? We’ve Been Too Patient shreds stigma and replaces it with dignity\, autonomy\, and power. This anthology heralds the necessity of our messy radical neurodivergent brains\, so that we might call forth a world where we are never again forced to be ‘too patient.’” – Sonya Renee Taylor\, activist and author of The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love \n\nL. D. Green is a genderqueer writer\, performer\, educator\, and mental health advocate. They co-edited and contributed to We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health and have published and performed in many other venues\, including The Body is Not an Apology and Foglifter. They write poetry\, non-fiction and speculative fiction and are a Lambda Literary Fellow. They are an English professor at Los Medanos College. \nKelechi Ubozoh is a nationally recognized Nigerian-American writer and mental health advocate featured in The S Word documentary and O\, The Oprah Magazine. Her first book\, We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health\, will be released from North Atlantic Books and Penguin Random House in Summer of 2019. \nJeneé Darden is an award-winning journalist\, public speaker and mental health advocate from Oakland. She’s also a host and reporter for NPR station KALW. Jeneé blogs at Cocoa Fly and is pitching a book about Black sexuality. Her first book\, When a Purple Rose Blooms\, is a collection of essays and poetry about Black womanhood. Jeneé is an alum of UC San Diego and the University of Southern California. \nRamon(a) Rio is a Xicanx non-binary queer trans-femme radical Licensed Clinical Social Worker and community organizer.  Ramon(a) was a former writer for The Body is Not an Apology.  Ramon(a) is also a trainer with Bloom\, a Transgender Healing Collective\, and is a leader with the Hayward Collective. \nSascha Altman DuBrul is cofounder of The Icarus Project\, a network of peer based mental health support groups and media project.  He has a Masters from Silberman School of Social Work\, worked as a Recovery Specialist/Trainer at Columbia’s Center for Practice Innovations and is currently Training Director for the Institute for the Development of Human Arts. \nShizue Seigel is a Japanese American writer/editor whose six books include Civil Liberties United\, Endangered Species\, Enduring Values\, and In Good Conscience. Over 50 years ago\, she had to kill the person her parents raised her to be to make space to find herself. She hopes freedom comes more easily to women and girls today. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kelechi-ubozoh-and-l-d-green-weve-been-too-patient-voices-from-radical-mental-health/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Neil Shister in Conversation with Harley Dubois
DESCRIPTION:discussing Radical Ritual: How Burning Man Changed the World. \n“An all-in history of\, and love letter to\, this one-of-a-kind event. If you’ve been there\, or want to go\, you couldn’t possibly find better companions than Neil Shister and his engaging book.”–Daniel Okrent\, author of Last Call and The Guarded Gate \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Radical Ritual in advance by speaking to a bookseller or by clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, August 14\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThrough interviews with fabled Burning Man personages\, Radical Ritual traces the festival’s evolution from the first scrap wood bonfire on a San Francisco beach to the week-long extravaganza in Black Rock City. Written from Neil Shister’s perspective as a five-time participant\, journalist\, and student of American culture\, Radical Ritual presents Burning Man as vitally\, historically important\, a significant player in the avant-garde\, forging new social paradigms as liberal democracy unravels. Burning Man’s contribution to this new order is post-post modern\, a fusion of sixties humanism with state-of-the-art Silicon Valley wizardry. Shister is not alone in his opinion. Led by conservative activist Grover Norquist\, the Cato Institute recently held an event on what libertarians can learn from Burning Man. The festival intertwines conservative and progressive ideas. On one hand it is a celebration of self-reliance\, personal accountability\, and individual freedom; on the other hand it is based on strong values of inclusion\, consensual decision-making\, and centered\, collaborative endeavor. \nNeil Shister has been a correspondent with Time\, television critic for the Miami Herald\, and editor of Atlanta magazine. He’s taught at Hampshire College\, Boston University\, and The George Washington University. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Côte d’Ivoire (1968-1970). He lives in Washington\, D.C. \nHarley Dubois is a founding board member and chief transition officer\, Burning Man Project. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/neil-shister-in-conversation-with-harley-dubois/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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