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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:Erica Jong and Francesca Bell
DESCRIPTION:Kanbar Auditorium\, Osher Marin Jewish Community Center\n200 N San Pedro Rd\, San Rafael \nThis special event is cosponsored by the Marin JCC and Red Hen Press. \n \nFear of Flying\, Erica Jong’s first and most famous novel\, published in 1973\, blew conventional thinking about women\, marriage and sexuality out of the water\, selling over 37 million copies and translated into over 45 languages including Chinese and Arabic. Her novel articulated what women thought but which\, through decades of silent complicity with the status quo\, was never voiced. \nIn the four decades since Fear of Flying\, she has published over 25 books in 45 languages\, including 9 works of fiction as well as celebrated non-fiction volumes. She has switched between fiction\, non-fiction and poetry\, becoming one of the most evocative poets of her generation with seven published volumes\, and winning Poetry magazine’s Bess Hokin Prize.  Her awards include: The Fernanda Pivano award The Sigmund Freud Award\, the Deauville Award and The United Nations Award for excellence in literature. \nThis reading celebrates her new book of poetry\, The World Began with Yes\, from Red Hen Press. In a dark time\, these poems celebrate life. \nFrancesca Bell’s poems appear in many magazines including B O D Y\, burntdistrict\, ELLE\, Flycatcher\, New Ohio Review\, North American Review\, Poetry Northwest\, Prairie Schooner\, Rattle\, Spillway\, Tar River Poetry\, and Zone 3. She has been nominated ten times for the Pushcart Prize and won the 2014 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor from Rattle. Her translations\, from Arabic and German\, appear in Berkeley Poetry Review\, Blue Lyra Review\, Circumference | Poetry in Translation\, Four by Two\, Laghoo\, and The Massachusetts Review. She co-translated Shatha Abu Hnaish’s book of poems\, A Love That Hovers Like a Bedeviling Mosquito (Dar Fadaat\, 2017)\, and Red Hen Press will publish her first collection\, Bright Stain\, in 2019. She is the events coordinator for the Marin Poetry Center and the former poetry editor of River Styx.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/erica-jong-and-francesca-bell/
LOCATION:The Osher Marin JCC\, 200 North San Pedro Road\, San Rafael\, 94903
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Philosopher of Utopia: Celebrating the New Graphic Biography of Herbert Marcuse
DESCRIPTION:Nick Thorkelson\, Andrew T. Lamas\, and a special guest TBD \ndiscussing the new book \nHerbert Marcuse\, Philosopher of Utopia: A Graphic Biography \nby Nick Thorkelson\, edited by Paul Buhle and Andrew T. Lamas\, with a foreword by Angela Y. Davis & published by City Lights Books \nThis comics-format biography brings Marcuse’s life\, work\, and times to a new generation. From his youth in Weimar Germany and early studies with Martin Heidegger\, to his emigration from Nazi Germany along with colleagues of the Frankfurt School\, to his rise as one of its major theorists along with Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin\, to his status as a countercultural icon\, readers are introduced to the theories and circumstances that made Marcuse into one of the world’s most influential intellectuals. \nMentor to a young Angela Davis and often referred to as the unofficial faculty advisor to the New Left\, Marcuse’s controversial critique of the “comfortable unfreedoms” of post-WWII capitalism entered popular consciousness with the 1964 publication of One-Dimensional Man\, which sold over 100\,000 copies in its first years in print. His argument for the possibility of a more humane and sustainable world was grounded in a personal knowledge of the violence of authoritarianism\, and the risk of its resurgence. Perennially relevant\, radical\, and inspiring\, Marcuse’s concept of the Great Refusal —”the protest against that which is”—is a guide for our times. \n“Nick Thorkelson’s exploration of the ideas and personality of Herbert Marcuse is exactly the sort of comic book I have longed to read. It is engaging\, artful\, and explores the world of revolutionary ideas. Books like this keep the fire going inside.”––Joe Sacco \n“I believe that Marcuse’s ideas can be as valuable today as they were fifty years ago.”––Angela Y. Davis\, from the foreword \nNick Thorkelson is a cartoonist living in Boston. He has done cartoons on local politics for The Boston Globe and in support of organizations working on economic justice\, peace\, and public health. He is the co-author and/or illustrator of The Earth Belongs to the People\, The Underhanded History of the USA\, The Legal Rights of Union Stewards\, The Comic Strip of Neoliberalism\, and Economic Meltdown Funnies\, and has contributed to a number of nonfiction comics anthologies. He is working on a graphic novel about the end of the Sixties\, A Better World Is Possible. Nick also moonlights as a musician\, animator\, graphic designer\, and painter. \nAndrew T. Lamas teaches urban studies and critical theory at the University of Pennsylvania\, is co-editor of The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements (Temple University Press\, 2017)\, and serves on the boards of the International Herbert Marcuse Society\, the Radical Philosophy Review\, and the Bread and Roses Community Fund.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/philosopher-of-utopia-celebrating-the-new-graphic-biography-of-herbert-marcuse/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Matt Richtel\, An Elegant Defense
DESCRIPTION:TUESDAY\, APRIL 16\, 2019 – 7:00PM\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \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 info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 14th. \nThe immune system impacts every aspect of our lives\, including sleep\, mood\, fitness\, nutrition\, brain function and aging\, and is the ultimate key to wellness and longevity. And yet\, it is widely misunderstood. Many people operate under the misconception that they can “boost” their immune system to stay healthy. The truth is the immune system is an incredibly intricate balance within the body (its complexity rivals that of the human brain). The more we understand about how this “elegant defense” operates\, the more we can improve our lives. \nMagnificently reported and soulfully crafted\, An Elegant Defense is the first major narrative exploration of the immune system. Through science and storytelling\, Richtel describes the remarkable discovery of the immune system over the last seventy years and explains in vivid detail how this complex system works\, how we interact with it\, and the risks we inflict on ourselves when we meddle with its natural balance. \nRichtel brings the science to life through the stories of four intimate and extraordinary medical stories: a cancer patient risen from the grave\, an HIV patient considered a medical marvel\, and two “invisible” women who suffer the stark injustice of autoimmunity. The story of Jason Greenstein\, a close friend of the author\, is particularly poignant as Richtel recounts Jason’s fight with cancer and astounding reaction to experimental treatment. \nThroughout the narrative\, Richtel accessibly weaves leading-edge scientific discovery through interviews and anecdotes from dozens of the world’s leading scientists. The breadth of his research and reporting is remarkable\, including insight into the work of immunologist James Allison\, who just this month won the Nobel Prize for his work disrupting the communication between cells and the immune system to “trick” cancer. The strides made by the immunologists in the book offer a glimpse at a future of longer\, more comfortable life and of authentic understanding of the forces that drive survival. \nBut Richtel argues that the most powerful first-line of health lies within each of us: our behavior\, our attitudes\, and the choices we make. Whether common knowledge or counterintuitive advice\, An Elegant Defense will enlighten readers about how every facet of life connects to the immune system. Richtel explores fascinating questions – from why boosting your immune system is a myth to what’s behind the explosion of autoimmune disorders in recent decades (a concern for 50 million Americans). \nAmong the thought-provoking topics Richtel explores in the book: \n\n\nWhy you should avoid using antibacterial soaps and hand sanitizers \n\n\nThe close connection between mental health and the immune system \n\n\nWhy women are more likely to get sick than men \n\n\nThe impact of obesity and modern diets on the immune system and gut health \n\n\nWhy parents shouldn’t freak out when kids eat dirt or pick their noses \n\n\nWhy Amish people have fewer allergies than the rest of the population \n\n\nThe frontline of cancer treatments\, and whether immunotherapy is the wonder fix some have promised \n\n\nAre there “superviruses” that may be resistant to drugs and spread like wildfire across the globe? \n\n\nHow modern life and our “always on” culture puts unprecedented stress on the very system that keeps us healthy \n\n\n  \nRichtel also reflects on a striking paradox: immunology\, once a backwater science and now arguably the center of modern medicine\, has given us two profound gifts. One is a trove of medicine so powerful it can revive a cancer patient from their deathbed\, reverse a deadly autoimmune disorder\, and tinker with our immune systems at the deepest\, molecular level.  But the second gift is a little-grasped lesson that these tools are desperate\, last-line measures. Eventually\, death comes for us all\, and Richtel explains why our immune system is complicit in this inevitability from the day we’re born. \nPerfect for readers of popular science and books like The Emperor of All Maladies and I Contain Multitudes\, An Elegant Defense will illuminate truths about the literal bodyguard within us all.  I hope you’ll take a close look at this advance copy and consider a review or other coverage in the spring.  And please let me know if you’d like additional review copies or more information. \nMATT RICHTEL is a reporter at the New York Times. He received the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for a series of articles he expanded into his first nonfiction book\, A Deadly Wandering (2014)\, an investigation of a fatal distracted-driving crash\, about which the New York Times Book Review hailed\, “It deserves a spot next to Fast Food Nation and To Kill a Mockingbird in America’s high-school curriculums.” A New York Times bestseller\, A Deadly Wandering was named a best book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle\, Christian Science Monitor\, Kirkus Reviews\, Winnipeg Free Press\, and Amazon.com. Richtel has appeared on NPR’s Fresh Air\, PBS NewsHour\, and other major media outlets. He lives in San Francisco\, California. Visit him online at www.mattrichtel.wordpress.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matt-richtel-an-elegant-defense/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Lori Gottlieb
DESCRIPTION:Lori Gottlieb\n\n\n\n\nPresents Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist\, Her Therapist\, and Our Lives Revealed. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, April 16\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lori-gottlieb/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bright: Mui Poopoksakul in conversation with Saskia Vogel
DESCRIPTION:APRIL 16\, 2019 | 7:30PM\nBright: Mui Poopoksakul in conversation with Saskia Vogel\n\nThe Bindery | 1727 Haight Street | San Francisco\, CA \n\n\nRSVP\n\nMui Poopoksakul talks about her translation of Duanwad Pimwana’s Bright\, the first-ever novel by a Thai woman to appear in English translation\, with Saskia Vogel\, moderated by Laura Goode. \n\n\n“Bright will prove to be seminal for Thailand’s place in the literary world.” — Prabda Yoon\, author of Moving Parts \n\n\nWhen five-year-old Kampol is told by his father to sit in front of their run-down apartment building and await his return\, the confused boy does as he’s told—he waits and waits and waits\, until he realizes his father isn’t coming back anytime soon. Adopted by the community\, Kampol is soon being raised by figures like Chong the shopkeeper\, who rents out calls on his telephone and goes into debt extending his customers endless credit. \nDueling flea markets\, a search for a ten-baht coin lost in the sands of a beach\, pet crickets that get eaten for dinner\, bouncy ball fads\, and loneliness so merciless that it kills a boy’s appetite all combine into this first-ever novel by a Thai woman to appear in English translation. Duanwad Pimwana’s urban\, at times gritty vignettes are balanced with a folk-tale-like feel and a charmingly wry sense of humor. Together\, they combine into the off-beat\, satisfying\, and sometimes magical coming-of-age story of an unforgettable young boy and the timeless legends\, traditions\, and personalities that go into his formation. \n\n\n\n“Duanwad Pimwana has a knack for finding the gap between who we are and who we’d like to be\, and deftly inserting her scalpel there. Across the villages and cities of Thailand\, her characters exist in a state of constant anxiety\, unable to fit in but having nowhere else to go.” —Jeremy Tiang\, author of State of Emergency \n\n\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSHARE \n \n\n\n\n| ALL EVENTS >\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nMui Poopoksakul\n\n\nMui Poopoksakul is a lawyer turned translator with a special interest in contemporary Thai literature. She is the translator of Prabda Yoon’s The Sad Part Was and Moving Parts\, both from Tilted Axis Press. She is translating a novel and a story collection by Duanwad Pimwana\, both forthcoming in 2019 from Two Lines Press and Feminist Press\, respectively. A native of Bangkok who spent two decades in the U.S.\, she now lives in Berlin\, Germany.\n\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nSaskia Vogel\n\n\nSaskia Vogel was born and raised in Los Angeles and now lives in its sister city\, Berlin\, where she works as a writer and Swedish-to-English literary translator. Her debut novel Permission will be published in five languages in spring 2019. It’s being adapted for television. Previously she worked as Granta magazine’s global publicist and as an editor at the AVN Media Network\, where she reported on pornography and adult pleasure products. She volunteers her time as the honorary secretary of SELTA and as part of the team that organizes Viva Erotica\, an annual film festival in Helsinki that explores the art\, history\, and culture of sex on film.\n\n\n\n\n\nAPRIL 16\, 2019 | 7:30PM\nBright: Mui Poopoksakul in conversation with Saskia Vogel\n\nThe Bindery | 1727 Haight Street | San Francisco\, CA \n\n\nRSVP\n\nMui Poopoksakul talks about her translation of Duanwad Pimwana’s Bright\, the first-ever novel by a Thai woman to appear in English translation\, with Saskia Vogel\, moderated by Laura Goode. \n\n\n“Bright will prove to be seminal for Thailand’s place in the literary world.” — Prabda Yoon\, author of Moving Parts \n\n\nWhen five-year-old Kampol is told by his father to sit in front of their run-down apartment building and await his return\, the confused boy does as he’s told—he waits and waits and waits\, until he realizes his father isn’t coming back anytime soon. Adopted by the community\, Kampol is soon being raised by figures like Chong the shopkeeper\, who rents out calls on his telephone and goes into debt extending his customers endless credit. \nDueling flea markets\, a search for a ten-baht coin lost in the sands of a beach\, pet crickets that get eaten for dinner\, bouncy ball fads\, and loneliness so merciless that it kills a boy’s appetite all combine into this first-ever novel by a Thai woman to appear in English translation. Duanwad Pimwana’s urban\, at times gritty vignettes are balanced with a folk-tale-like feel and a charmingly wry sense of humor. Together\, they combine into the off-beat\, satisfying\, and sometimes magical coming-of-age story of an unforgettable young boy and the timeless legends\, traditions\, and personalities that go into his formation. \n\n\n\n“Duanwad Pimwana has a knack for finding the gap between who we are and who we’d like to be\, and deftly inserting her scalpel there. Across the villages and cities of Thailand\, her characters exist in a state of constant anxiety\, unable to fit in but having nowhere else to go.” —Jeremy Tiang\, author of State of Emergency \n\n\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBOOKS & JOURNALS\nABOUT\nEDUCATION\nBLOG
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bright-mui-poopoksakul-in-conversation-with-saskia-vogel/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jenny Odell
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Odell discusses her new book\, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. \nPraise for How To Do Nothing \n“Self-help for the collectively minded\, How to Do Nothing is as thoughtful and morally serious as it is fun to read. This book will change how you see the world.”—Malcolm Harris\, author of Kids These Days  \n“Your chaotic\, fraught internal weather isn’t an accident\, it’s a business-model\, and while ‘thoughtful resistance’ isn’t ‘productive\,’ Odell proves that it is utterly necessary.”—Cory Doctorow\, author of Radicalized and Walkaway \n“In a media and tech ecosystem simultaneously obsessed with “digital detox” and building personal brands\, How to Do Nothing is a breath of fresh air grounding readers in the complex\, interdependent actual ecosystems of the physical world. Jenny Odell writes with remarkable clarity and compassion. Each chapter reads like going on a fascinating walk through a park in conversation with an old friend (who happens to also be able to tell you about every single bird in the park\, which is awesome). It’s a book I already know I’ll be returning to and referencing for a long time.”—Ingrid Burrington\, author of Networks of New York    \nAbout How To Do Nothing \nA galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention—and our personal information—that redefines what we think of as productivity\, reconnects us with the environment\, and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world \nNothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity . . . doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. \nSo argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention\, she writes\, we can undertake bolder forms of political action\, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment\, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. \nFar from the simple anti-technology screed\, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often\, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative\, timely\, and utterly persuasive\, this book is a four-course meal in the age of Soylent.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenny-odell/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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