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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Wayétu Moore and The Dragons\, the Giant\, the Women
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by Museum of the African Diaspora \nWhen Wayétu Moore turns five years old\, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at their home in Monrovia\, Liberia\, but all she can think about is how much she misses her mother\, who is working and studying in faraway New York. Before she gets the reunion her father promised her\, war breaks out in Liberia. The family is forced to flee their home on foot\, walking and hiding for three weeks until they arrive in the village of Lai. Finally\, a rebel soldier smuggles them across the border to Sierra Leone\, reuniting the family and setting them off on yet another journey\, this time to the United States. \nSpanning this harrowing journey in Moore’s early childhood\, her years adjusting to life in Texas as a black woman and an immigrant\, and her eventual return to Liberia\, The Dragons\, the Giant\, the Women is a deeply moving story of the search for home in the midst of upheaval. Moore has a novelist’s eye for suspense and emotional depth\, and this unforgettable memoir is full of imaginative\, lyrical flights and lush prose. In capturing both the hazy magic and stark realities of what is becoming an increasingly pervasive experience\, Moore shines a light on the great political and personal forces that continue to affect many migrants around the world\, and calls us all to acknowledge the tenacious power of love and family. Wayétu will be in converation with author and professor Faith Adiele. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live at Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nWayétu Moore\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nFaith Adiele\nFaith Adiele’s work includes The Nigerian Nordic Girl’s Guide to Lady Problems; Meeting Faith\, a memoir about becoming Thailand’s first Black Buddhist nun; My Journey Home\, a PBS documentary about finding family in Nigeria; and Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural… Read More →
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #61 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Minna Salami / Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host Minna Salami for her new book of essays\, Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone. Please join us! \nThis will be a virtual event\, which we will be streaming live on our Facebook page. Please note the early start time of 12pm PST. \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nSensuous Knowledge is a collection of thought provoking essays that explore questions central to how we see ourselves\, our history\, and our world. \nWhat does it mean to be oppressed?\nWhat does it mean to be liberated?\nWhy do women choose to follow authority even when they can be autonomous?\nWhat is the cost of compromising one’s true self?\nWhat narratives particularly subjugate women and people of African heritage?\nWhat kind of narrative can heal and empower? \nAs she considers these questions\, Salami offers fresh insights on key cultural issues that impact women’s lives\, including power\, beauty\, and knowledge. She also examines larger subjects\, such as Afrofuturism\, radical Black feminism\, and gender politics\, all with a historical outlook that is also future oriented. Combining a storyteller’s narrative playfulness and a social critic’s intellectual rigor\, Salami draws upon a range of traditions and ideologies\, feminist theory\, popular culture — including insights from Ms. Lauryn Hill\, Beyoncé\, Audre Lorde\, Toni Morrison\, and others — science\, philosophy\, African myths and origin stories\, and her own bold personal narrative to establish a language for change and self-liberation. \nSensuous Knowledge inspires reflection and challenge us to formulate or own views. Using ancestral knowledge to steer us toward freedom\, Salami reveals the ways that women have protested over the years in large and small ways — models that inspire and empower us to define our own sense of womanhood today. \nIn this riveting meditation\, Salami asks women to break free of the prison made by ingrained male centric biases\, and build a house themselves — a home that can nurture us all. \n\nMinna Salami is Nigerian\, Finnish\, and Swedish author\, blogger\, and social critic\, and international keynote speaker. She is the founder of the multiple award-winning blog\, MsAfropolitan\, which connects feminism with critical reflections on contemporary culture from an Africa-centered perspective. Listed by Elle Magazine as “one of twelve women changing the world” alongside Angelina Jolie and Michelle Obama\, Minna has presented talks on feminism\, liberation\, decolonization\, sexuality\, African Studies\, and popular culture to audiences at the European Parliament\, the Oxford Union\, Yale University\, TEDx\, The Singularity University at NASA\, and UN Women. She is a contributor to The Guardian\, Al Jazeera\, and the Royal Society of the Arts\, and a columnist for the Guardian Nigeria. She lives in London. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nTo have Sensuous Knowledge sent to your door\, order here or below. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
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SUMMARY:Well-RED: Doren Robbins and Sharon Olson
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, June 9\, 7pm on Zoom\nDoren Robbins and Sharon Olson \nopen mic follows \nonline on Zoom\nFree\, register on Eventbrite! \npresented with Works/San José \nTypically featured at Works/San José art and performance center\, performance begins via Zoom at 7:00pm sharp! \nFirst 15 people to register for a free ticket get on the open mic list. Curators will email all registrants the meeting ID and password. \nEach open mic participant has 5 minutes. \nSharon Olson is a Stanford graduate\, with an M.L.S. from U.C. Berkeley and an M.A. in comparative literature from the University of Oregon. She worked as a librarian from 1978 to 2007 at the Palo Alto City Library\, and was a long-standing member of the Palo Alto poetry group Waverley Writers. Her publications include a chapbook Clouds Brushed in Later\, which won the Abby Niebauer Memorial Chapbook Award (presented by the Poetry Center San José in 1987)\, and two full-length books of poetry\, The Long Night of Flying (Sixteen Rivers Press\, 2006) and Will There Be Music? (Cherry Grove Collections\, 2019). Her poems have appeared in many journals including Off the Coast\, String Poet\, Arroyo Literary Review\, The Curator\, Adanna\, Heron Tree\, New Verse News and Cider Press Review. She has published (with co-author Chris Schopfer) numerous articles about the Sandford family of New Jersey in The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey. Since 2008 she and her husband have lived on the East Coast\, currently in Lawrenceville\, New Jersey\, where she is a member of the U.S. 1 Poets Collective and performs with Cool Women Poets. She is also affiliated with the Scriven Arts Colony in Gilmanton\, New Hampshire\, and the Guilford Poets Guild in Guilford\, Connecticut\, which interviewed her recently in April\, 2020. See more information at her blog: https://slopoet.blogspot.com. \nDoren Robbins is a poet\, mixed media artist\, literary critic and composer of poetic prose monologues. His work has appeared in many publications\, including The American Poetry Review\, The American Journal of Poetry\, Third Rail: international literature and arts\, Angry Old Man\, Another Chicago Magazine\, Café Irreal\, Cimarron Review\, Empty Mirror\, Exquisite Corpse\, Kayak\, 5 AM\, Hotel Amerika\, The Indiana Review\, New Letters\, Nimrod\, Otoliths\, Sulfur\, and The Iowa Review. Past collections of his poetry\, Driving Face Down and My Piece of the Puzzle were awarded the Blue Lynx Poetry Award 2001 and the 2008 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Poetry Award\, respectively. His book Twin Extra: A Poem In Three Parts (Wild Ocean Press 2015) was nominated for the National Jewish Book Council Award in Poetry. In 2020 Spuyten Duyvil Press published his monograph\, Apocalypse Contemporary\, on Sharon Doubiago’s book Naked to the Earth; and highmoonoon books published Not Fade Away: Poetic Prose Monologues\, Three Sequences. He is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at Foothill College. \n“These are remarkable\, fiery poems. Poems that would urge any poet on\, language that tears open reality. I think this is Doren Robbins’s finest book\, and I’ve admired his work for a good while. The imagination\, its energy and precision\, is immense. There’s a delicate observation of even the rawest materials\, a tenderness for humanity in all its cruelty\, stupidity\, and often invisible dignity and grace\, that feels to me like his peculiar\, original contribution to–well\, to the puzzle of what we have become: people\, Americans\, men and women today\, above all those who are “absent\,” unregistered\, undocumented in both senses.” -Adrienne Rich
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