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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Krys Malcolm Belc and Alex McElroy
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, June 17 at 6pm PT when Krys Malcolm Belc discusses his book\, The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood\, with Alex McElroy on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87079245281\n\nPraise for The Natural Mother of the Child\n“A formally daring queer memoir about parenthood and inheritance and the way our bodies resist the binaries of the state; The Natural Mother of the Child is brilliant.“ —Carmen Maria Machado\, author of In the Dream House\n\n“All memoirs offer a study of a body through time\, but my favorites make this fact transparent\, refuse to separate the self from its tangible form. This memoir is an embodied story—of non-binary parenthood\, of true partnership and the challenge of navigating systems which were not designed with us in mind\, but on which our most intimate decisions sometimes depend. Above all\, this is a love story\, one which tracks the evolution of self through the relationships that define it. I loved this portrait of a queer family’s making\, its proof that the ways we love and are loved create us.“ —Melissa Febos\, author of Abandon Me & Girlhood\n\n“This is a gorgeous memoir about families\, raising children\, and figuring out how to live in a world where intimate matters are both inscribed by individual history and entangled with the workings of the State. A work of solace and communion\, this book is destined to be a major addition to the literature of parenthood and selfhood\, one that will be read for years to come.” —Lydia Kiesling\, author of The Golden State\n\n“Krys Malcolm Belc’s lyrical memoir brings much-needed nuance to all these old conversations about baby-making\, families\, parenting\, and gender. Belc’s narrative of his conscious creation of self and family is generous\, resonant\, and powerful—I will be pressing this lovely book into the hands of all the parents and parents-to-be I know!” —Andrea Lawlor\, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl\n\nAbout The Natural Mother of the Child\nKrys Malcolm Belc’s visual memoir-in-essays explores how the experience of gestational parenthood—conceiving\, birthing\, and breastfeeding his son Samson—eventually clarified his gender identity.\n\nKrys Malcolm Belc has thought a lot about the interplay between parenthood and gender. As a nonbinary\, transmasculine parent\, giving birth to his son Samson clarified his gender identity. And yet\, when his partner\, Anna\, adopted Samson\, the legal documents listed Belc as “the natural mother of the child.”\n\nBy considering how the experiences contained under the umbrella of “motherhood” don’t fully align with Belc’s own experience\, The Natural Mother of the Child journeys both toward and through common perceptions of what it means to have a body and how that body can influence the perception of a family. With this visual memoir in essays\, Belc has created a new kind of life record\, one that engages directly with the documentation often thought to constitute a record of one’s life—childhood photos\, birth certificates—and addresses his deep ambivalence about the “before” and “after” so prevalent in trans stories\, which feels apart from his own experience.\n\nThe Natural Mother of the Child is the story of a person moving past societal expectations to take control of his own narrative\, with prose that delights in the intimate dailyness of family life and explores how much we can ever really know when we enter into parenting.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-krys-malcolm-belc-and-alex-mcelroy-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Laura Raicovich
DESCRIPTION:Laura Raicovich discusses her new book \nCULTURE STRIKE: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest \npublished by Verso Books \nA leading activist museum director explains why museums are at the center of a political storm and how they can be reimagined. \n———- \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. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n———- \n(CLICK HERE) to register. (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon!) \n————- \nIn an age of protest\, culture and museums have come under fire. Protests against museum funding (like the Metropolitan Museum accepting Sackler family money) and boards (such as the Whitney appointing tear gas manufacturer Warren Kanders)—to say nothing of demonstrations over exhibitions and artworks—have roiled cultural institutions across the world\, from the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi to the Akron Art Museum. Meanwhile never have there been more calls for museums to work for social change. \nIn this book\, Laura Raicovich shows how art museums arose as colonial institutions bearing an ideology of neutrality that masks their role in upholding capitalist values. And she suggests how museums can be reinvented to serve better\, public ends. \nLaura Raicovich was President and Executive Director of the Queens Museum. During her tenure\, she was a champion of socially engaged art practices that address the most pressing social\, political\, and ecological issues of our times. She has defined her career with artist-driven projects and programs. She is also the author of At the Lightning Field and A Diary of Mysterious Difficulties. \n  \nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-raicovich/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Booksmith and Mother Jones present: Rainesford Stauffer with Becca Andrews / An Ordinary Age
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Mother Jones present an evening of conversation between Rainesford Stauffer\, author of the debut An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional\, and Mother Jones reporter Becca Andrews. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order An Ordinary Age here. We are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact us at events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nFeatured on Good Morning America \nEsquire‘s Book Club Pick \n“A meticulous cartography of how outer forces shape young people’s inner lives.” —Esquire\, Best Books of Spring 2021 \nIn conversation with young adults and experts alike\, journalist Rainesford Stauffer explores how the incessant pursuit of a “best life” has put extraordinary pressure on young adults today\, across our personal and professional lives—and how ordinary\, meaningful experiences may instead be the foundation of a fulfilled and contented life. \nYoung adulthood: the time of our lives when\, theoretically\, anything can happen\, and the pressure is on to make sure everything does. Social media has long been the scapegoat for a generation of unhappy young people\, but perhaps the forces working beneath us—wage stagnation\, student debt\, perfectionism\, and inflated costs of living—have a larger\, more detrimental impact on the world we post to our feeds. \nAn Ordinary Age puts young adults at the center as Rainesford Stauffer examines our obsessive need to live and post our #bestlife\, and the culture that has defined that life on narrow\, and often unattainable\, terms. From the now required slate of (often unpaid) internships\, to the loneliness epidemic\, to the stress of “finding yourself” through school\, work\, and hobbies—the world is demanding more of young people these days than ever before. And worse\, it’s leaving little room for our generation to ask the big questions about who they want to be\, and what makes a life feel meaningful. \nPerhaps we’re losing sight of the things that fulfill us: strong relationships\, real roots in a community\, and the ability to question how we want our lives to look and feel\, even when that’s different from what we see on the ‘Gram. Stauffer makes the case that many of our most formative young adult moments are the ordinary ones: finding our people and sticking with them\, learning to care for ourselves on our own terms\, and figuring out who we are when the other stuff—the GPAs\, job titles\, the filters—fall away. \nAbout the authors\nRainesford Stauffer is a freelance writer\, Kentuckian\, and author of An Ordinary Age\, published May 2021 from Harper Perennial. You can find her on Twitter: @Rainesford. \nBecca Andrews is a reporter at Mother Jones. A Southerner\, she most often writes about the Southeast\, gender\, and culture. Before joining Mother Jones as an editorial fellow\, she wrote for newspapers in Tennessee. Her work has also appeared in Slate\, Marie Claire UK\, and USA Today. Her first book\, No Choice\, on the dwindling access to abortion in the United States\, is forthcoming from Hachette’s Public Affairs imprint. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-booksmith-and-mother-jones-present-rainesford-stauffer-with-becca-andrews-an-ordinary-age/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Krys Malcolm Belc and Alex McElroy
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, JUNE 17 AT 6PM PT WHEN KRYS MALCOLM BELC DISCUSSES HIS BOOK\, THE NATURAL MOTHER OF THE CHILD: A MEMOIR OF NONBINARY PARENTHOOD\, WITH ALEX MCELROY ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87079245281\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,87079245281#  or +13462487799\,\,87079245281#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcNQA6b476 \nPraise for The Natural Mother of the Child\n”A formally daring queer memoir about parenthood and inheritance and the way our bodies resist the binaries of the state; The Natural Mother of the Child is brilliant.“ —Carmen Maria Machado\, author of In the Dream House \n”All memoirs offer a study of a body through time\, but my favorites make this fact transparent\, refuse to separate the self from its tangible form. This memoir is an embodied story—of non-binary parenthood\, of true partnership and the challenge of navigating systems which were not designed with us in mind\, but on which our most intimate decisions sometimes depend. Above all\, this is a love story\, one which tracks the evolution of self through the relationships that define it. I loved this portrait of a queer family’s making\, its proof that the ways we love and are loved create us.“ —Melissa Febos\, author of Abandon Me & Girlhood \n”This is a gorgeous memoir about families\, raising children\, and figuring out how to live in a world where intimate matters are both inscribed by individual history and entangled with the workings of the State. A work of solace and communion\, this book is destined to be a major addition to the literature of parenthood and selfhood\, one that will be read for years to come.“ —Lydia Kiesling\, author of The Golden State \n”Krys Malcolm Belc’s lyrical memoir brings much-needed nuance to all these old conversations about baby-making\, families\, parenting\, and gender. Belc’s narrative of his conscious creation of self and family is generous\, resonant\, and powerful—I will be pressing this lovely book into the hands of all the parents and parents-to-be I know!“ —Andrea Lawlor\, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl \nAbout The Natural Mother of the Child\nKrys Malcolm Belc’s visual memoir-in-essays explores how the experience of gestational parenthood—conceiving\, birthing\, and breastfeeding his son Samson—eventually clarified his gender identity. \nKrys Malcolm Belc has thought a lot about the interplay between parenthood and gender. As a nonbinary\, transmasculine parent\, giving birth to his son Samson clarified his gender identity. And yet\, when his partner\, Anna\, adopted Samson\, the legal documents listed Belc as “the natural mother of the child.” \nBy considering how the experiences contained under the umbrella of “motherhood” don’t fully align with Belc’s own experience\, The Natural Mother of the Child journeys both toward and through common perceptions of what it means to have a body and how that body can influence the perception of a family. With this visual memoir in essays\, Belc has created a new kind of life record\, one that engages directly with the documentation often thought to constitute a record of one’s life—childhood photos\, birth certificates—and addresses his deep ambivalence about the “before” and “after” so prevalent in trans stories\, which feels apart from his own experience. \nThe Natural Mother of the Child is the story of a person moving past societal expectations to take control of his own narrative\, with prose that delights in the intimate dailiness of family life and explores how much we can ever really know when we enter into parenting.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-krys-malcolm-belc-and-alex-mcelroy/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210617T190000
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SUMMARY:Sarah Schulman in conversation with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Schulman discusses her new book Let the Record Show: A Political History of Act Up New York\, 1987-1993.  Based on more than two hundred interviews with ACT UP members\, Let the Record Show is the most comprehensive political history ever assembled of ACT UP and American AIDS activism. In just six years\, ACT UP\, New York\, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races\, genders\, sexualities and backgrounds\, changed the world. Their activism\, in its complex and intersectional power\, transformed the lives of people with AIDS and the bigoted society that had abandoned them. Let the Record Show can be purchased from Dog Eared Books Castro at this link: https://www.shopdogearedbookscastro.com/book/9780374185138.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-schulman-in-conversation-with-mattilda-bernstein-sycamore/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic #36
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic entering into our 3rd consecutive year that happens every third Thursday of the month en el Zoom mundo. Curated y hosted by Josiahluis Alderete.\nSign up for the 10-slot virtual open mic by filling out this form:\nhttps://forms.gle/aHgoJxdUFXZXHjgQA\nThis month’s features: TBA\nIf you enjoy spaces like these\, please support Nomadic Press by donating via:\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating or buying a “ticket” at Eventrbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-monthly… OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe will be posting the features’ Venmo handles during the event.\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Monthly Speaking Axolotl\nTime: Jan 21\, 2021 08:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery month on the Third Thu\, 12 occurrence(s)\nJan 21\, 2021 08:00 PM\nFeb 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nMar 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nApr 15\, 2021 08:00 PM\nMay 20\, 2021 08:00 PM\nJun 17\, 2021 08:00 PM\nJul 15\, 2021 08:00 PM\nAug 19\, 2021 08:00 PM\nSep 16\, 2021 08:00 PM\nOct 21\, 2021 08:00 PM\nNov 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nDec 16\, 2021 08:00 PM\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZYtd…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82006774895\nMeeting ID: 820 0677 4895\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,82006774895# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,82006774895# 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+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\nMeeting ID: 820 0677 4895\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/koTOCjKqF
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-36/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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