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SUMMARY:MARY: A Journal of New Writing
DESCRIPTION:MARY: A Journal of New Writing is accepting submissions for our Fall 2018 issue. If you have poetry\, nonfiction\, or fiction you would like to share\, please send it our way! Authors of works selected for the Fall 2018 Issue will be offered a small honorarium. Submissions are open until November 7th. We look forward to reading your work! For more information about our submission guidelines\, please use the following link: https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/MarySubmissionForm
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Jason Bayani
DESCRIPTION:FREE! \nEnjoy line breaks during your lunch break\, as some of the Bay Area’s best poets and musicians share their work in the great outdoors. \nThis year see’s a new host and curator\, Jason Bayani\, artistic director for Kearny Street Workshop (the oldest multi-disciplinary Asian Pacific American multi-disciplinary arts organization in the country) as well as a Kundiman fellow and a veteran of the National Poetry Slam scene whose work has been published in Fourteen Hills\, Muzzle Magazine\, Mascara Review\, the National Poetry Slam anthology Rattapallax\, Write Bloody’s classroom anthology Learn Then Burn\, and other publications. \nLearn more here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-jason-bayani-2/
LOCATION:Yerba Buena Gardens\, 750 Howard St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writing Hope: Queer Authors in Times of Oppression
DESCRIPTION:The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence present hopeful readings from various Queer Authors written during time of oppression
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writing-hope-queer-authors-in-times-of-oppression/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books\, 900 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Voices of Witness @ City Lights
DESCRIPTION:with Mateo Hoke\, Taylor Pendergrass\, and Mohammed “Mike” Ali \ncelebrating the release of \nSix By Ten: Stories From Solitary Confinement \nEdited by Mateo Hoke and Taylor Pendergrass\, \npublished by Haymarket Books \n\nThis compelling collection of stories told directly by people personally impacted by solitary confinement is the first book in a new Voice of Witness series with Haymarket Books. \nAn estimated 80\,000 Americans are held in solitary confinement in prisons across the country. Solitary confinement\, often in cells no bigger than six-by-ten-feet\, means twenty-four hours per day with little or no meaningful human contact. \nSix By Ten explores the mental\, physical\, and spiritual impacts of America’s widespread embrace of solitary confinement\, as told through the first-person narratives of individuals subjected to solitary confinement\, family members on the outside\, and corrections officers. \nEach chapter presents a different individual’s story and shows how Americans from all over the country and all walks of life find themselves held in solitary for years or even decades at a time. In addition to evocative first-hand accounts\, the book also includes essays and analysis on how solitary became such a prominent feature of the US prison system today. \nMateo Hoke is writer\, journalist\, and co-editor of Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation. \nTaylor Pendergrass is a lawyer and activist focused on criminal justice reform. He currently works for the American Civil Liberties Union. \nMohammed “Mike” Ali grew up in the Bay Area after his family immigrated to the United States from Fiji. Growing up romanticizing gang life\, he escalated through youth detention\, jails\, and prisons before landing in solitary in a private immigration detention facility in Arizona. \nVoice of Witness is nonprofit that advances human rights by amplifying the voices of people impacted by injustice. We explore urgent and underrepresented human rights issues and force space for marginalized voices to be heard and seen through our two core programs: (1) Our oral history book series\, which illuminates firsthand accounts of injustice\, and (2) Our education program\, which brings these stories and ethics-driven oral history methodology to classrooms and communities across the U.S. \nCritical Praise for Six By Ten: \n“Some of the people in Six by Ten were convicted of crimes\, but this book convicts the United States of an incomparably greater crime: blighting the lives and searing the souls of untold hundreds of thousands of men\, women\, and teenagers by a practice that more enlightened countries consider inhuman. You will not find a more riveting indictment anywhere of our reckless use of solitary confinement\, nor one told through such a variety of moving\, poignant voices.” \n—Adam Hochschild\, author\, King Leopold’s Ghost \n“The voices heard in this powerful collection are haunting. As these men and women make inescapably clear\, the practice of removing human beings from everything that makes them sane and stable—keeping them for days\, months\, and years in utter isolation without light\, touch\, sound\, space\, and hope—is unimaginably cruel. Six by Ten is a deeply moving and profoundly unsettling wake up call for all citizens. The use of solitary confinement is deeply immoral and we must insist that it be banned in all of our nation’s prisons. Immediately.” \n—Heather Ann Thompson\, Pulitzer Prize–winning author\, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voices-of-witness-city-lights/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Lisa Brennan-Jobs / Small Fry
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Lisa Brennan-Jobs for Small Fry\, her smart\, frank\, and captivating coming-of-age memoir. \n  \nNote: Seating is limited for what will surely be a big night. If you would like to reserve a seat\, please pre-order a copy of Small Fry below\, and put your request in the ‘comments’ field. Thanks!  \n  \nBorn on a farm and named in a field by her parents—artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs—Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young\, Lisa’s father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older\, her father took an interest in her\, ushering her into a new world of mansions\, vacations\, and private schools. His attention was thrilling\, but he could also be cold\, critical and unpredictable. When her relationship with her mother grew strained in high school\, Lisa decided to move in with her father\, hoping he’d become the parent she’d always wanted him to be. \n  \nSmall Fry is Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s poignant story of a childhood spent between two imperfect but extraordinary homes. Scrappy\, wise\, and funny\, young Lisa is an unforgettable guide through her parents’ fascinating and disparate worlds. Part portrait of a complex family\, part love letter to California in the seventies and eighties\, Small Fry is an enthralling book by an insightful new literary voice. \n  \n\n  \nLisa Brennan-Jobs lives in Brooklyn\, NY. Small Fry is her first book. Her articles and essays have appeared in Vogue\, O Magazine\, Southwest Review\, Massachusetts Review\, Harvard Advocate\, and the Los Angeles Times. \n  \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is a free\, all-ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-lisa-brennan-jobs-small-fry/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Fan Shigang discusses Striking to Survive: Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, October 9\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nFan Shigang discusses Striking to Survive: Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China. \nIn China\, capitalist development since the 1980s has given rise to an enormous new industrial working class. In the vast export-processing zones along China’s southeastern coast\, countless so-called “migrant workers” or “peasant workers” from interior provinces eke out a living in innumerable factories. Through thirty-five years of struggle\, they have gradually established a foothold as part of China’s new industrial working class. \nThe book\, Striking to Survive is written by a young worker activist in Guangzhou. It is a uniquely fine-grained account of a pivotal strike that took place in 2013. Led by an unusually adept worker\, Wu Guijun\, the book is an interlocking set of oral history narratives that bring one into the lived experience of the workers. Wu Guijun was arrested and served more than a year in prison\, and was the focus of this New York Times produced video\, which gives some sense of him\, and the environment in which he works. \n— \nFan Shigang was born into a family of workers for state-owned enterprises in a northern Chinese city. He has worked as a basic-level employee in several machining factories. He is a contributor to the underground labor periodical\, Factory Stories\, conducting interviews with factory workers in southern China\, documenting their lives\, work\, and struggles.\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, October 9\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fan-shigang-discusses-striking-to-survive-workers-resistance-to-factory-relocations-in-china/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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