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SUMMARY:Jan Steckel at Sacred Grounds Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Lambda Literary Award-winning poet Jan Steckel is featured tonight at San Francisco’s longest-running weekly open mic at Sacred Grounds Café. Your host is Daniel Philip Brady at this open mic that has run every Wednesday night since at least 1972. Open Mic slots are five minutes\, shorter if very crowded; sign up at 7 PM. Food is good and reasonably priced. A video will be shot of you at the open mic if you don’t object\, so you can look at it later online at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sacred-Grounds-café or http://www.creativeideasforyou.com/SacredGrounds_YouTube.htm and polish your performance skills or just admire yourself.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jan-steckel-at-sacred-grounds-open-mic/
LOCATION:Sacred Grounds\, 2095 Hayes at Cole\, San Francisco\, 94117
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Thomas Page McBee / Amateur
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts an evening with Thomas Page McBee as he celebrates his new book\, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man. Please join us! \n  \nFrom an award-winning writer whose work bristles with “hard-won strength\, insight\, agility\, and love” (Maggie Nelson)\, an exquisite and troubling narrative of masculinity\, violence\, and society. \n  \nIn this groundbreaking new book\, the author\, a trans man\, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to untangle the vexed relationship between masculinity and violence. Through his experience boxing–learning to get hit\, and to hit back; wrestling with the camaraderie of the gym; confronting the betrayals and strength of his own body–McBee examines the weight of male violence\, the pervasiveness of gender stereotypes\, and the limitations of conventional masculinity. A wide-ranging exploration of gender in our society\, Amateur is ultimately a story of hope\, as McBee traces a new way forward\, a new kind of masculinity\, inside the ring and outside of it. \n  \nIn this graceful\, stunning\, and uncompromising exploration of living\, fighting\, and healing\, we gain insight into the stereotypes and shifting realities of masculinity today through the eyes of a new man. \n  \n\n  \n“Until I read this book\, I didn’t realize how tired I was of reading about masculinity as cold\, hard\, and fixed. Amateur is a warm hug. It’s also an invitation to everyone who’s ever struggled to accept failure\, searched for a sense of belonging\, or said “Ugh\, men” in an exasperated tone to think harder and be kinder. I want the world to read it.” – Ann Friedman\, New York Magazine columnist and co-host of Call Your Girlfriend \n  \n“Amateur is a brutally honest look at the problems with masculinity\, laced through with hope\, and joy\, and possibility. Thomas McBee confronts fears and realities with grace\, toughness and poetry. A beautiful book.” – Michelle Tea\, author of Black Wave and How to Grow Up \n  \n\n  \nThomas Page McBee is the author of the Lambda award-winning memoir Man Alive: A True Story of Violence\, Forgiveness\, and Becoming a Man\, which was named a best book of 2014 by NPR\, BuzzFeed\, Kirkus Reviews\, and Publishers Weekly. His writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Playboy\, Glamour\, The Rumpus\, and Pacific Standard. He lives in Brooklyn. \n  \nRSVP is appreciated\, but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-thomas-page-mcbee-amateur/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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