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SUMMARY:Alta Live: The Future of Quarantine
DESCRIPTION:Many years before “quarantine” entered quotidian language during the COVID-19 pandemic\, Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley were at work on a book about it\, researching centuries of medical isolation. Released in July 2021\, Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine covers the black death\, Ebola\, and coronaviruses as well as agricultural diseases\, nuclear contamination\, and technology that could alter the practice of isolation. The authors join Alta Journal books editor David L. Ulin for a conversation on their eerily predictive research and what quarantine might look like in our future. \nREGISTER \nABOUT THE GUESTS:\nGeoff Manaugh is the author of A Burglar’s Guide to the City and the creator of the architecture and technology website BLDGBLOG. He regularly writes for the New York Times Magazine\, the Atlantic\, the New Yorker\, Wired\, and many other publications. \nNicola Twilley is the cohost of the award-winning podcast Gastropod\, which looks at food through the lenses of science and history\, and is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker. \nManaugh and Twilley live in Los Angeles. \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nQuarantine is our most powerful response to uncertainty: it means waiting to see whether something hidden inside us will be revealed. It is also one of our most dangerous\, operating through an assumption of guilt. In quarantine\, we are considered infectious until proven safe. \nUntil Proven Safe tracks the history and future of quarantine around the globe\, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and space—from crumbling Mediterranean lazzarettos built to contain the black death to an experimental Ebola unit in London\, from the hallways of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to closed-door simulations where pharmaceutical execs and epidemiologists prepare for pandemics yet to come. \nBut the story of quarantine ranges far beyond the history of medical isolation. The authors tour a nuclear waste isolation facility beneath the New Mexican desert\, see plants stricken with a disease that threatens the world’s wheat supply\, and meet NASA’s planetary protection officer\, tasked with saving Earth from extraterrestrial infections. \nWith Until Proven Safe\, Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley bring us a book as compelling as it is definitive\, an up-to-the-minute investigation of the interplay of forces—biological\, political\, technological—that shape our modern world. It is a thrillingly reported\, thought-provoking exploration of the meaning of freedom\, governance\, and mutual responsibility.• \n\n\n\n\n\nUntil Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine by Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley\nMCDbookshop.org \n$25.76\n\n\nBUY THE BOOK
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LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Da'Shaun L. Harrison and Kiese Laymon
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, August 11th at 6pm PT when Da’Shaun L. Harrison discusses their book\, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness\, with Kiese Laymon on Zoom! \nASL Interpretation Provided \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_IcplvrusQYe6T-3p_3sq9Q \nPraise for Belly of the Beast \n“Belly of the Beast is written with poise and lucidity. It pushes us to think past the pablum of telling fat folx all they gotta do is love themselves to enacting a movement that addresses the source and ramifications of societal anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Harrison forces us not to look away\, reminding us that all too often ‘health’ and ‘desire’ are used to annul Blackness. In a ‘post bo-po’ world\, desire and the sheer right to life can be rooted in something other than all the things named non-Black.” —Sabrina Strings\, author of Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia \n“Da’Shaun Harrison is an insightful visionary\, world-builder\, and ingenious writer who brings us into deeper understandings and frameworks of the intersections of anti-Blackness and anti-fatness. Belly of the Beast brings us closer to ourselves because it brings us closer to the truth—that anti-Blackness is the foundation to how violence shapes our relationships to our bodies and each other. Harrison not only intervenes in the terror of white supremacist paradigms but develops the tools to imagine and build a new world. Belly of the Beast eats\, and it leaves no crumbs.”—Hunter Shackelford\, author of You Might Die for This \n“I am continually blown away by Da’Shaun’s ability as a writer to wrestle so deeply and expertly with questions many of us would never even think to ask—whether they be about our world\, our politics\, our selves\, or our bodies. Every page challenges us to expand our imagination and reconstruct the ways we think\, talk\, and theorize about fatness\, Blackness\, gender\, health\, desire\, abolition\, and more. Belly of the Beast is a gift and a groundbreaker.” —Sherronda J. Brown\, editor-in-chief of Wear Your Voice magazine \nAbout Belly of the Beast \nExploring the intersections of Blackness\, gender\, fatness\, health\, and the violence of policing. \nTo live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Hyper-policed by state and society\, passed over for housing and jobs\, and derided and misdiagnosed by medical professionals\, fat Black people in the United States are subject to sociopolitically sanctioned discrimination\, abuse\, condescension\, and trauma. \nIn Belly of the Beast\, Da’Shaun Harrison—a fat\, Black\, disabled\, and nonbinary trans writer—offers an incisive\, fresh\, and precise exploration of anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. They foreground the state-sanctioned murders of fat Black men and trans and nonbinary masculine people in historical analysis. Policing\, disenfranchisement\, and invisibilizing of fat Black men and trans and nonbinary masculine people are pervasive\, insidious ways that anti-fat anti-Blackness shows up in everyday life. Fat people can be legally fired in 49 states for being fat; they’re more likely to be houseless. Fat people die at higher rates from misdiagnosis or nontreatment; fat women are more likely to be sexually assaulted. And at the intersections of fatness\, Blackness\, disability\, and gender\, these abuses are exacerbated. \nTaking on desirability politics\, the limitations of gender\, the connection between anti-fatness and carcerality\, and the incongruity of “health” and “healthiness” for the Black fat\, Harrison viscerally and vividly illustrates the myriad harms of anti-fat anti-Blackness. They offer strategies for dismantling denial\, unlearning the cultural programming that tells us “fat is bad\,” and destroying the world as we know it\, so the Black fat can inhabit a place not built on their subjugation. \nAbout Da’Shaun L. Harrison \nDa’Shaun L. Harrison is a nonbinary abolitionist and community organizer based out of Atlanta\, GA. They once served as the Communications Director of #ATLisReady and Editor-in-Chief of Queer Black Millennial. Harrison now holds the honor of being the Associate Editor of Wear Your Voice Magazine and Lead Organizer of Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative (SNaPCo). Harrison has traveled throughout the United States and abroad to lecture at conferences and colleges and to lead workshops focused on race\, sexuality\, gender\, class\, religion\, (dis)abilities\, fatness\, and the intersection at which they all meet. You can find them on Twitter and Instagram @DaShaunLH\, or through their website\, dashaunharrison.com.
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SUMMARY:Benjamin Gucciardi with Eduardo C. Corral
DESCRIPTION:Launch Party for Benjamin Gucciardi’s new poetry collection \nWest Portal \npublished by University of Utah Press \nWinner of the 2020 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize \n———– \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. Link coming soon! \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link coming soon! \n———–\nWest Portal is the name of the neighborhood in San Francisco\, California\, where poet Benjamin Gucciardi grew up. It is also one of the names of the Pillars of Heracles—the entryway to the afterworld. Drawing on William Carlos Williams’s assertion that “the local is the only thing that is universal\,” West Portal investigates the Bay Area’s urban and rural landscapes along with the memories and people that reside there. Interweaving the narrative of the death of the poet’s sister with the environmental and socioeconomic realities of the current moment\, the poems in West Portal illuminate the experience of loss\, and the attempt to create meaning in the wake of devastation. Through poems that are prayerful\, observant\, elegiac\, pained\, dreamlike\, philosophical\, and compassionate\, the book asks: What do we consider holy? What is virtue? What should any of us value about our relationship to place or our relationship with each other? \nBenjamin Gucciardi is the author of the chapbook I Ask My Sister’s Ghost (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press). His poems have appeared in AGNI\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Best New Poets\, Harvard Review\, New Ohio Review\, Orion Magazine\, Southern Indiana Review\, and other journals. He has received BOOTH’s Prize for Unexpected Literature\, the Milton Kessler Memorial Prize from Harpur Palate\, the Trifecta Poetry Prize from Iron Horse Literary Review and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prize\, as well as awards and fellowships from the Sewanee Writer’s Conference\, Jentel Foundation\, PLAYA\, and Artsmith. He also works with refugee and immigrant youth in Oakland\, California\, through Soccer Without Borders\, an organization he founded in 2006. \n\n\nEduardo C. Corral’s debut collection of poetry\, Slow Lightning (2012)\, won the Yale Younger Poets Prize\, making him the first Latino recipient of the award. His second collection is Guillotine (2020). Praised for his seamless blending of English and Spanish\, tender treatment of history\, and careful exploration of sexuality\, Corral has received numerous honors and awards\, including the Discovery/The Nation Award\, the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize\, a Whiting Writers’ Award\, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. \nPraise and Reviews for WEST PORTAL: \n“The beautiful and the terrible live alongside each other in this work. And so often\, they’re actually the same thing. Or they are happening all at once. There is such deep searching in this book and such formal precision. And the language is luminous\, which makes the harrowing physical and psychic landscape even more profound. At the center of this world is the ghost of the poet’s sister who proves that ghosts are always the best teachers. They see us.”\n—Gabrielle Calvocoressi\, author of Rocket Fantastic \n“In West Portal\, ravishing beauty and ravenous grief braid into utterly lucid and breathtaking poems. The language—deftly scored on the page\, rippling with tenderness—radiates with the hushed warmth of an intimate conversation. Ben Gucciardi’s first book has the lyrical depth of a second or third book. It’s an astonishing debut.”—Eduardo Corral \n“Ben Gucciardi’s West Portal reverberates with compassionate intensity. Navigating the tragedy of his sister’s death\, its aftermath\, and what the living can learn from the dead\, these poems spark with tender attention to detail: he reaches into his sister’s ashes expecting their consistency to be like masa and instead feels bone. He brings a thermos of soup to one of his students who has been kicked out of the house by his uncle\, and they walk\, exchanging stories\, by the San Francisco Bay. West Portal asks us\, in this great plastic patch of life\, how does the poet ‘un-drown’ himself? One way is to dive right into the great scope of being in all of its dazzling\, bewildering power.”—Sandra Simonds \n“West Portal takes place ‘in the pause between death and tendril\,’ where the ‘word for beauty sounds just like the word for camel\, and the phrase I borrowed sometimes means I burned.’ In this in-between world\, Benjamin Gucciardi shows us a landscape stricken by loss\, but also painted with hints of joy some may call reincarnation or a goldfinch’s song. It’s this attention to emotion and image that makes this debut poignant and specifically brilliant like ‘the red blaze of ice-plants.'”—Javier Zamora \n“I revere books of poems that accomplish three things: praying\, singing\, and storytelling. The poems in West Portal achieve all three. The poetic modes are mixed and at times hybridized. Deep intelligence and deep feeling seem to hold each other in a death-gripped balance. There’s something narrative at stake here\, too. We’re taking an emotional journey that carries us from one place to another. Maybe that isn’t exactly narrative\, but it borrows from narrative structure\, and has something to do with a character evolving or changing over the course of a book. I love this about West Portal\, a massively ambitious book.”\n—David Roderick\, author of The Americans and Blue Colonial \n“West Portal is a stunning collection of death-haunted poems that not only interrogate the nature of existence but in formally various ways celebrate our brief time on earth. Ben Gucciardi shows how small details\, observed or remembered and rendered in lines that sing and soar\, make life worth living. Here is a primer on the movements of the soul\, which will surprise\, delight\, and offer solace.”\n—Christopher Merrill\, author of Self-Portrait with Dogwood
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:FUNDRAISER: Nomadic Press & BAMBDFEST 2021 Present: BlackLit: A Series of Poetic Conversations
DESCRIPTION:As part of BAMBDFEST 2021\, BlackLit brings together 10 Nomadic Press writers and 2 musicians who have been paired up in poetic conversations weeks prior to the event. This is a fundraiser for the Nomadic Press Black Writers Fund (we have a short goal of raising $2\,000 by the end of the evening).\nEmceed by the one-and-only Dior J. Stephens!\nPoet pairs:\nAyodele Nzinga + Juba Kalamka\nAsantewaa Boykin + Dee Allen\nLauren Wheeler + Odelia Younge\nKeith Donnell Jr. + Daniel B. Summerhill\nDazié Grego-Sykes + Nazelah Jamison\nMusic pair:\nBlackberri + TBA\nAbout the Nomadic Press Black Writers Fund (NPBWF):\nAt Nomadic Press we are proud of our recent work to support Black writers through our initiative\, the Nomadic Press Black Writers Fund (NPBWF)\, and we’d like to thank those who have contributed to the fund. Our mission is to level the playing field for Black writers.\nOur campaign and fundraiser last December enabled us to provide $3\,500 to our roster of 24 Black writers\, which allowed us to provide $143 to each writer. We’d like to continue this work. In 2021\, our goal is to raise $8\,000 to support 32 Black writers with $250 each. We hope that you consider donating to the fund. No donation is too small (or too big).\n$8\,000.00 would allow us to guarantee 32 writers $250.00 each. A donation of $250 supports one author; $750 supports three.\nBelow are four ways to give to NPBWF:\n1) Make a one-time donation: https://www.nomadicpress.org/store/blackwritersfundonetime\n2) Make a monthly recurring donation: https://www.nomadicpress.org/store/blackwritersfundrecurring\n3) Donate via a “ticket” through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/…/fundraiser-nomadic-press…\n4) Donate via the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: FUNDRAISER: Nomadic Press & BAMBDFEST 2021 Present: BlackLit: A Series of Poetic Conversations\nTime: Aug 11\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89931132235…\nMeeting ID: 899 3113 2235\nPasscode: 033189\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,89931132235#\,\,\,\,*033189# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,89931132235#\,\,\,\,*033189# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 899 3113 2235\nPasscode: 033189\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kxgdKdrIL
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