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SUMMARY:Heather Christle: The Crying Book
DESCRIPTION:Heather Christle discusses her new book\, The Crying Book. \nPraise for The Crying Book  \n“In The Crying Book\, Heather Christle makes a poignant and piercing examination of the phenomenon of tears—exhaustive\, yes\, but also open-ended\, such that I was left clutching this book to my chest with wonder\, asking myself when the last time was that I cried\, and why. A deeply felt\, and genuinely touching\, book.” —Esmé Weijun Wang\, author of The Collected Schizophrenias \n“This is a wonderful and profound look at the act of crying–something human and yet hidden\, common and yet mysterious. I found myself reading with a thirst for the tears Heather Christle collects here–instances within literature\, film\, history\, and the author’s own life all add up to a greater understanding of what makes us human.” —Chelsea Hodson\, author of Tonight I’m Someone Else \nAbout The Crying Book \nWhy do we cry? How do we cry? And what does it mean? A scientific\, cultural\, artistic examination by a young poet on the cusp of motherhood. \nHeather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood\, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it\, even if they rarely talk about it. Along the way\, she discovers an artist who designed a frozen-tear-shooting gun and a moth that feeds on the tears of other animals. She researches tear-collecting devices (lachrymatories) and explores the role white women’s tears play in racist violence. \nHonest\, intelligent\, rapturous\, and surprising\, Christle’s investigations look through a mosaic of science\, history\, and her own lived experience to find new ways of understanding life\, loss\, and mental illness. The Crying Book is a deeply personal tribute to the fascinating strangeness of tears and the unexpected resilience of joy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/heather-christle-the-crying-book/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Short Stories of Ethel Rohan
DESCRIPTION:As well as being an accomplished novelist — her 2017 debut\, The Weight of Him was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book — Ethel Rohan is also a master of that very Irish (and Russian\, and American) format\, the short story. She has two well-received short story collections to her credit (Goodnight Nobody and Cut Through the Bone). Ethel will in conversation with Hinterland director Tony Bucher.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-short-stories-of-ethel-rohan/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute\, 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mary Ladd in conversation with SF Chronicle columnist Leah Garchik
DESCRIPTION:Mary Ladd\, author of The Wig Diaries\, will be in conversation with SF Chronicle columnist Leah Garchik at The Bindery.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-ladd-in-conversation-with-sf-chronicle-columnist-leah-garchik/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191110T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191110T200000
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SUMMARY:SF in SF with Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of reading and conversation with authors Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz\, in conversation with Bay Area writer\, editor\, and raconteur Terry Bisson. \nCharlie Jane Anders is the author of The City in the Middle of the Night and the Nebula Award-winning All the Birds in the Sky. She’s the organizer of the Writers With Drinks reading series\, and she was a founding editor of io9\, a website about science fiction\, science and futurism. Her stories have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction\, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction\, Tor.com\, Lightspeed\, Tin House\, ZYZZYVA\, and several anthologies. Her novelette “Six Months\, Three Days” won a Hugo award. She has also won the Emperor Norton Award\, for “extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason.” \nAnnalee Newitz writes science fiction and nonfiction. They are the author of the novels The Future of Another Timeline\, and Autonomous\, which won the Lambda Literary Award. As a science journalist\, they are a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times\, and have a monthly column in New Scientist. They have published in The Washington Post\, Slate\, Popular Science\, Ars Technica\, The New Yorker\, and The Atlantic\, among others. They are also the co-host of the Hugo Award-winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Previously\, they were the founder of io9\, and served as the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo. \nDoors open at 6:00 pm; event begins at 6:30 pm. As always\, Borderlands Books will be on hand with copies of the authors’ works for sale. \n$10 at the door; proceeds go to support the American Bookbinders Museum (no one turned away for lack of funds).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sf-in-sf-with-charlie-jane-anders-and-annalee-newitz/
LOCATION:The American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays Non-Fiction November: Three Histories
DESCRIPTION:November is non-fiction month at Odd Mondays! November 11\, three authors read from their brand-new histories at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. Join us at 6:30 p.m. for this free event. Tamim Ansary reads from THE INVENTION OF YESTERDAY: A 50\,000-Year History of Human Culture\,  Brandon Brown from THE APOLLO CHRONICLES: Engineering America’s First Moon Missions\, and Julia Flynn Siler from THE WHITE DEVIL’S DAUGHTERS: Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown. A book signing follows the readings. \nHere’s information on the authors: \nTamim Ansary grew up in Afghanistan and grew old in America. His grandparents were Slavic\, Finnish\, Arab\, and Mongolian.  His books include West of Kabul\, East of New York\, San Francisco’s One City One Book for 2008\, and Destiny Disrupted\, A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes\, which won an NCBA Award in 2009. His new book\, The Invention of Yesterday\, explores how we humans got to be so interconnected and why we’re still fighting. \nBrandon R. Brown is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of San Francisco. He writes about science through such outlets as Smithsonian\, Slate\, and Scientific American. His books include a biography\, Planck\, winner of the 2016 Housatonic Award for non-fiction\, and The Apollo Chronicles\, an immersive engineering history. \nJulia Flynn Siler is a New York Times best-selling author and journalist. Her most recent book\, The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown\, is a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her other books are Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen\, the Sugar Kings\, and America’s First Imperial Adventure andThe House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty\, which was a finalist for a James Beard Award and a Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished reporting. A veteran journalist\, Siler is a longtime contributor and former staff writer for The Wall Street Journal and has been a guest commentator on the BBC\, CNBC\, and CNN. She lives in Northern California with her husband and their two sons. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-non-fiction-november-three-histories/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Teaching Resistance: Radicals\, Revolutionaries and Cultural Subversives in the Classroom
DESCRIPTION:Teaching Resistance is a collection of the voices of activist educators from around the world who engage inside and outside the classroom from pre-kindergarten to university and emphasize teaching radical practice from the field. Written in accessible language\, this book is for anyone who wants to explore new ways to subvert educational systems and institutions\, collectively transform educational spaces\, and empower students and teachers alike to fight for genuine change.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Mink is a social studies teacher who has worked at the high school and adult school levels and refuses to hide his political radicalism from his students. He has been a contributing writer and editor for underground publications and zines including Slingshot\, Absolutely Zippo\, and Collapse Board. Editor of the Maximum Rocknroll monthly column “Teaching Resistance” and a vocalist/bassist for several internationally recognized punk bands\, John lives in Berkeley\, California\, with his partner Megan March\, who is also his bandmate in the truewave/punk group Street Eaters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/teaching-resistance-radicals-revolutionaries-and-cultural-subversives-in-the-classroom/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Editor John Mink talks about his book Teaching Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Teaching Resistance is a collection of the voices of activist educators from around the world who engage inside and outside the classroom from pre-kindergarten to university and emphasize teaching radical practice from the field. Written in accessible language\, this book is for anyone who wants to explore new ways to subvert educational systems and institutions\, collectively transform educational spaces\, and empower students and teachers alike to fight for genuine change.\n\nJohn Mink is a social studies teacher who has worked at the high school and adult school levels and refuses to hide his political radicalism from his students. He has been a contributing writer and editor for underground publications and zines including Slingshot\, Absolutely Zippo\, and Collapse Board. Editor of the Maximum Rocknroll monthly column “Teaching Resistance” and a vocalist/bassist for several internationally recognized punk bands\, John lives in Berkeley\, California\, with his partner Megan March\, who is also his bandmate in the truewave/punk group Street Eaters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/editor-john-mink-talks-about-his-book-teaching-resistance/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191112T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191112T210000
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SUMMARY:Patty Seyburn & Dean Rader
DESCRIPTION:Patty Seyburn and Dean Rader read from their new poetry collections\, Threshold Delivery and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry \nAbout Threshold Delivery \nThreshold Delivery takes a lyrical look at how we approach the death of our loved ones – and how we confront the various thresholds in our lives. These poems guide the reader through ritual\, tradition\, and mystical interpretations of how and why we mourn\, and how we conduct our lives after knowing grief. Though referencing Jewish tradition\, these poems ask the reader to confront their own strategies and observance. They call upon pathos\, personal history and humor\, confronting the everyday with no shortage of joy\, irony\, and bafflement. Poems range from short personal meditations and anecdotal narratives to associative flights of imagination and winding explorations\, replete with historical oddities and popular culture. Densely musical and voice driven\, poems take the reader on journeys through personal and family history\, mapping the movement of the heart and mind through life’s most challenging moments. A series of poems\, on the surface about Mah Jongg\, look at interweaving cultural histories and how the social world affects our behavior\, while asking us to consider what we inherit\, what we bring with\, and what we pass down\, as we “draw and discard.” \nAbout Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry \nWikipedia articles are never finalized. In Dean Rader’s energized and inventive new book\, the poet considers identity of self and society as a Wikipedia page–sculpted and transformed by the ever-present push and pull of politics\, culture\, and unseen forces. And\, in the case of Rader\, how identity can be affected by the likes of Paul Klee’s paintings and the characters from the children’s stories about Frog and Toad. Rader’s cagey voice is full of humor and inquiry\, warmly inviting readers to fully participate in the creation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patty-seyburn-dean-rader/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191112T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191112T213000
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SUMMARY:Danny Fingeroth presents A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee
DESCRIPTION:About A Marvelous Life \nThe comprehensive biography of STAN LEE\, father of SPIDER-MAN and THE AVENGERS\, beloved comic book writer and editor\, and former president and publisher of Marvel Comics\, by Lee’s colleague of over four decades. \nStan Lee co-created SPIDER-MAN! And IRON MAN! And the HULK! And the X-MEN! And more than 500 other iconic characters! His name has appeared on more than a billion comic books\, in 75 countries\, in 25 languages. His superheroes have starred in multibillion-dollar grossing movies and TV series. This is the story of how Stanley Martin Lieber\, a poor kid from Washington Heights became STAN LEE\, international legend. \nDanny Fingeroth (comics industry veteran\, author\, and longtime Stan Lee friend and colleague) writes a comprehensive biography of this powerhouse of ideas who changed the world’s understanding of what a hero is and how a story should be told\, while exploring Lee’s unique path to becoming the face of comics. \nWith behind-the-scenes stories and sourced with exclusive\, new interviews with Lee himself and other legendary comics and media figures\, A Marvelous Life has insights and revelations that only an insider like Fingeroth can offer. \nFingeroth\, himself a longtime writer and editor at Marvel Comics and now a lauded pop culture critic and historian\, knew and worked closely with Stan Lee for over forty years. Fingeroth is able to put Lee’s life and work in a context that makes events and actions come to life as no other writer could.\nAbout the Author: \nDANNY FINGEROTH is a native New Yorker\, comics world insider\, writer and editor\, and pop-culture critic and historian. He is famous for his books on comics and superheroes and offers informed\, insightful observations about the psychological motivations of the people who create our popular culture. He grew up in the first generation of Marvel-loving kids and has had a career in comics for 40 years\, working closely with Stan Lee on numerous projects\, seeing him as both an icon and a colleague. Fingeroth was involved in the writing and editing of Spider-Man\, Iron Man\, the X-Men and The Avengers at Marvel Comics. For more information\, please visit http://dannyfingeroth.com/. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, November 12\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/danny-fingeroth-presents-a-marvelous-life-the-amazing-story-of-stan-lee/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191112T213000
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SUMMARY:Happy Endings: I Can't Thank You Enough
DESCRIPTION:Gratitude is the moment. But we’re kind of bad at it\, right? Like\, whenever someone says\, “we should go around and say one thing we are thankful for.” I always say\, “this meal?” But *being* thanked feels so boss. So we’re asking our writers to meditate on people who helped them in big ways. And by the end of the night we’ll all feel like pumpkin pie on the inside.\nSee you there\, Sunbeams ♥ \n_____ \nHAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and wants to shine a little sun on your soul.\nWhat’s gonna happen? Five writers will come with a piece they’ve prepared in response to a monthly prompt. A panel of judges will be selected from the audience\, and that panel will pick a winner!\n$10/Pay what you can \nWe’re thinking about scale\, my little Sunbeams. How does the size of a place\, a person\, or a feeling effect us?? Our cast of five v different and interesting writers will tell us just that! With\, likely\, the most joyous of conclusions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings-i-cant-thank-you-enough/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sarah Henry hosting Q&A and book-signing with author Mary Ladd
DESCRIPTION:Mary Ladd will co-host a book-signing and Q&A with author Sarah Henry. \nThe Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book\, delivered with bold gallows humor to intimately address the gravity of cancer\, invites the reader to bear witness to both the horror and the joke(s). Armed with humor and creative sensibility\, Ladd robs her diagnosis of its dour weightiness. Refusing to tiptoe around the gnarlier elements of treatment and recovery\, the narrative is powerful in its unvarnished honesty. Infused with a contagious lust for life and exemplified by hilarious anecdotes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-henry-hosting-qa-and-book-signing-with-author-mary-ladd/
LOCATION:Rakestraw Books\, 3 Railroad Avenue\, Danville\, 94526
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T210000
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SUMMARY:10th Anniversary Party for Wherever There Is A Fight with co-authors Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi
DESCRIPTION:We had a great and deep time for the release of the first edition of this book ten years ago\, and this history of the gaining—and retaining—of civil rights in California could not be timelier. Join as we celebrate the process:  Wherever There’s a Fight\, 10th Anniversary Edition: How Runaway Slaves\, Suffragists\, Immigrants\, Strikers\, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California. \nElaine Elinson was the communications director of the ACLU of Northern California and editor of the ACLU News for more than two decades. She is a coauthor of Development Debacle: The World Bank in the Philippines\, which was banned by the Marcos regime. Her articles have been published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Nation\, Poets and Writers\, and numerous other periodicals. \nStan Yogi is also coauthor\, with Laura Atkins\, of the children’s book Fred Korematsu Speaks Up. He managed development programs for the ACLU of Northern California for fourteen years and is the coeditor of two books\, Highway 99: A Literary Journey through California’s Great Central Valley and Asian American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography. His work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle\, MELUS\, Los Angeles Daily Journal\, and several anthologies.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/10th-anniversary-party-for-wherever-there-is-a-fight-with-co-authors-elaine-elinson-and-stan-yogi/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T210000
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SUMMARY:Matt Saincome & Bill Conway: The Hard Times
DESCRIPTION:Matt Saincome and Bill Conway discuss The Hard Times: The First 40 Years. \nA sharp\, comedic send-up of punk and hardcore culture\, from the creators of the popular and critically-lauded satire site The Hard Times.net. \nThe Hard Times: The First 40 Years is the first book from The Hard Times.net\, the Internet’s favorite music satire site. Often referred to as “The Onion for punk rock\,” the site has developed a sizable\, devoted following for its razor-sharp takes on underground music and alternative culture. And with headlines like “Man Magically Transforms into Music Historian While Talking to Women” and “Pretentious Friend Only Listens to Podcasts on Vinyl\,” you don’t have to be a punk rock diehard to appreciate their hilarious commentary. \nNow\, in this ’zine-style “historical retrospective\,” the writers behind the site document its development alongside the rise of punk rock\, with original articles from their ‘archives’ commenting upon ’70s\, ’80s\, and ’90s punk\, and site-specific fan favorites from the aughts-onward. With its unique aesthetic and laugh-out-loud humor\, The Hard Times will be the perfect gift book for music nerds and pop culture devotees everywhere.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matt-saincome-bill-conway-the-hard-times/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:GLORIA STEINEM In Conversation with Amy Richards
DESCRIPTION:Orchestra and loge tickets include a copy of Steinem’s new book \nGloria Steinem is a writer\, speaker\, activist and feminist organizer. She co-founded New York Magazine and Ms. Magazine\, where she remains a consulting editor. She produced an HBO documentary on child abuse\, a Lifetime film about the death penalty\, and WOMAN\, a series of eight Viceland documentaries about violence against women across the world. Steinem is the subject of The Education of a Woman\, a biography by Carolyn Heilbrun\, and HBO’s Gloria: In Her Own Words. Her own books include My Life on the Road\, Revolution from Within\, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions\, and Moving Beyond Words. In 2013\, President Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom\, the highest civilian honor. \nAmy Richards is a writer\, producer\, and organizer. Most recently\, she produced the Emmy-nominated series WOMAN for Viceland and curated a series of talks to accompany Annie Leibovitz’s traveling exhibition WOMEN. Richards was a consulting producer on the HBO documentary Gloria Steinem: In Her Own Words and an advisor on the PBS documentary MAKERS: Women Making America. She is the author of Manifesta: Young Women\, Feminism\, and the Future. She works closely with Gloria Steinem on her writing
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gloria-steinem-in-conversation-with-amy-richards/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Peter Jan Honigsberg
DESCRIPTION:Peter Jan Honigsberg\n\n\n\n\nlaunches his new book A Place Outside the Law: Forgotten Voices of Guantánamo\, containing firsthand testimonies from Guantánamo Bay\, inspiring future generations to never repeat the human rights violations of the detention center. \n“The definitive account of what happened at Guantánamo in all of its chilling and horrifying detail. What makes this book unique and compelling is that it is the story of what it does to people’s lives to create ‘a place outside the law.’ Through his countless interviews\, Professor Honigsberg describes the impact of Guantánamo on those who have been part of it: soldiers\, medical personnel\, lawyers\, interrogators\, torturers\, detainees. It is the story of what happens when a country abandons the rule of law.”–Erwin Chemerinsky\, UC Berkeley\, School of Law \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of A Place Outside the Law by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, November 13\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nLaw scholar and Witness to Guantánamo founder Peter Jan Honigsberg uncovers a haunting portrait of life at the military prison and its toll\, not only on the detainees and their loved ones but also on its military and civilian personnel and the journalists who reported on it. \nHonigsberg conducted 158 interviews across 20 countries so that the people who lived and worked there could tell their heartbreaking and inspirational stories. In each one\, we face the reality that the healing process cannot begin until we start the conversation about what was done in the name of protecting our country. These are a few of them. Many alleged operatives in Guantánamo were purchased by the United States for ransom from Afghan and Pakistani soldiers. Brandon Neely\, a prison guard who processed the first group of suspected operatives to arrive in Cuba\, flew to London to embrace the detainees he guarded after leaving the military. Navy whistleblower Matt Diaz covertly released the names of 500 detainees by sending them in a greeting card to a lawyer in New York. Journalist Carol Rosenberg committed the past 17 years of her career to documenting life at Guantánamo. And Damien Corsetti\, an interrogator who came to be known as the “King of Torture\,” received ribbons and awards for the same cruel actions for which he was later prosecuted. \nIn startling\, aching prose\, A Place Outside the Law shines a light on these unheard voices\, and through them\, encourages the global community to embrace humanity as our greatest tool to make the world a safer place. \nPeter Jan Honigsberg is a professor at USF School of Law and the founder and director of Witness to Guantánamo. His research and teaching focuses on the rule of law and human rights violations that occurred in the detention center in Guantánamo\, as well as on the study of terrorism and post-9/11 issues. His books include Our Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences of the War on Terror and Crossing Border Street: A Civil Rights Memoir. Honigsberg lives in Berkeley. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-jan-honigsberg/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Maurya Simon & Amber Flora Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 14\, 2019 at 7pm\nMaurya Simon & Amber Flora Thomas\nMaurya Simon is the author of ten volumes of poetry\, including Speaking in Tongues\, a nominee for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize\, Ghost Orchid\, which was nominated in 2004 for a National Book Award in Poetry\, Cartographies\, (Red Hen Press\, 2008)\, and most recently\, a limited-edition letterpress book\, Questions My Daughters Asked Me\, Answers I Never Gave Them (Blackbird Press\, 2014). Her novel-in-verse\, entitled The Raindrop’s Gospel: The Trials of St. Jerome & St. Paula\, was issued by Elixir Press in 2010. In early 2018\, Red Hen Press will publish Simon’s tenth volume of poems\, The Wilderness: New & Selected Poems\, 1980-2016. \nShe received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and has been a Fulbright Fellow in India. She has taught at UC Riverside\, Caltech\, and at the Claremont Colleges and has published 10 books of poetry. Her poetry often combines the natural world with spirituality and metaphysics and her writing is enriched by the classics and art. \nAmber Flora Thomas\, was born and raised in northern California. She is the author of Eye of Water: Poems (University of Alaska Press\, 2012) which was selected by Harryette Mullen as the winner of the 2004 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Her other books include The Rabbits Could Sing: Poems (University of Alaska Press\, 2012) and Red Channel in the Rupture: Poems (Red Hen Press\, 2018). Her poetry has appeared in The New England Review\, Tin House\, Callaloo\, Orion Magazine\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Saranac Review\, and Third Coast\, as well as Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry\, and numerous other journals and anthologies. \nThomas has taught at the Cave Canem annual retreat and the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference. She has received fellowships from Yaddo\, Atlantic Center for the Arts\, Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, and Sewanee Writers Conference. She earned an MFA at Washington University in St. Louis\, MO. Currently\, she is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at East Carolina University in Greenville\, NC. Her three books of poetry reflect the pathos and brutality of living things.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maurya-simon-amber-flora-thomas/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Center Book Award: Bao Phi with Sarah Menefee\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 14 – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nThe Poetry Center\, Humanities 512\, San Francisco State University\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Poetry Center Book Award Reading\, co-sponsored this year by the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN)\, features award winner Bao Phi\, from Minneapolis\, selected for his book Thousand Star Hotel (Coffee House Press\, 2017)\, reading and in conversation with the award judge\, Sarah Menefee. The Poetry Center Book Award has been presented annually since 1980 by The Poetry Center to a single outstanding book of poetry published in the previous year. The award carries a cash prize and an invitation to read\, along with the award judge\, at The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University. Supported by the National Endowment for the Arts\, this event is free and open to the public. \n  Judge’s Statement: for Thousand Star Hotel\, by Bao Phi \n\nFrom the first poem in Bao Phi’s Thousand Star Hotel I was taken into a real world\, particular to the poet but a shared world\, in the best way\, written with a sure and generous ear. A confidence by one retail worker to another in the first poem of this fine collection: a scene certainly familiar to me\, and I know right off that the ways of the world and the heart are being masterfully revealed. The particulars of life\, which constitute both poetry and the shared experience called ‘history\,’ are here with their beautiful and brutal truths. In this case the war that was waged against the Vietnamese people\, something that reverberates forever here\, as part of this patched-together and unequal society of all of us from everywhere\, where the truths told by father to son and father to daughter are freighted with love\, ultimate innocence and experience. All these things weave through these poems\, which are a pleasure and an adventure to read\, best instances of the visionary real. At a time when there is so much dimensionless fantasy throughout this amnesiac culture\, how refreshing to be told the real story! — revelation and recognition. “That a raindrop can weep inside of itself so hard it drowns and\, looking at it\, you would never know.” —Sarah Menefee\n\nBao Phi is a multiple-time Minnesota Grand Slam poetry champ and National Poetry Slam finalist\, and the author of two collections of poetry\, Thousand Star Hotel and Sông I Sing\, both from Coffee House Press\, and both of which are taught in classrooms across the country. He is also author of A Different Pond\, a picture book which received a Caldecott honor\, an Ezra Jack Keats new author honor\, the Charlotte Zolotow award for excellence in children’s book writing\, and six starred reviews\, and He was Minnesota Monthly’s Author of the Year 2017 and City Pages’ Best Author 2018. He continues to tour as a featured guest speaker and artist across the country. He is the program director of events and awards at the Loft Literary Center\, in Minneapolis. Photo: Anna Min. \nSan Francisco poet Sarah Menefee\, originally from Reno\, Nevada\, is a homeless and poor people’s rights activist\, a founding member of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America\, the Revolutionary Poets Brigade\, and ‘First they came for the homeless.’ Her poetry collections include I’m Not Thousandfurs\, The Blood About the Heart\, Human Star\, In Your Fish Helmet\, and Stella Umana (Italian & English)\, along with numerous chapbooks. She is a painter\, a photographer and journalist for The People’s Tribune\, with her articles and her poetry published widely in numerous political and literary journals and anthologies. She has worked in hospitals\, bars\, casinos\, offices\, day care centers and in many retail jobs\, including bookstores. She is currently semi-retired\, and works part-time as an artist’s model. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured: \nSarah Menefee\, “First They Came for the Homeless\,” at Cornell University Architecture Art Planning \nKB Kinkel\, The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #115: Bao Phi \nRecipients of The Poetry Center Book Award\, 1980–present \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and The Green Arcade
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-poetry-center-book-award-bao-phi-with-sarah-menefee-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Babar in Exile #21: Till Death Do We Part
DESCRIPTION:Babar in Exile continues it’s November tradition with “Till Death Do We Part”\, a reading that celebrates our vociferous dead and the living who go right on singing despite it all. Presiding over the departed will be Vampyre Mike Kassel (1953-2008)\, who will be honored with the release of Bat Flower\, a new compilation of his mixed-genre work by Deborah Fruchey and Last Laugh Productions. Representing the living will be Chris & Deirdre Trian\, original denizens of the Café Babar readings who have been partnered for 47 years. Fantastic and skilled performers\, they will each do a set of poetry and (if we’re lucky) song\, and Chris will also be displaying some of his paintings during the event. We’ll have multiple genres\, media\, and states of being\, meaning something for everyone on this fine autumn eve. With\, as always\, our fab open mic\, which for this occasion will ask participants to read one poem from a departed Babarian along with their own. Books will be available to read from. \nSo come on down to check out a slice of Bay Area poetry history\, now and in the making\, and make your way home with a bindle full of inspiration and a thimbleful more hope for the species. \n  \nBabar in Exile #21: Till Death Do We Part\na revival of the Cafe Babar\, Paradise Lounge\, and Club Chameleon reading series \n  \nfeaturing \nChris Trian\nDeirdre Trian\nand the work of Vampyre Mike Kassel \nand you\, in our spooky open mic \n  \nHosted by Richard Loranger and Paul Corman-Roberts \n  \nPERFORMER BIOS \nChris Trian was born in Hollywood\, CA\, and raised in San Francisco. He is a veteran of the bars and cheap hotels and poetry readings of North Beach. He has a full-length collection of poetry\, When There’s No More Room in Heck\, the Darned Will Walk the Earth\, published by Zeitgeist Press\, and has pieces in Howl magazine and the Street Spirit newspaper. He lives and writes with Deirdre Trian. \nDeirdre Trian was born in Oakland\, CA\, and grew up in San Francisco after spending her first five years in Berkeley. She wrote from an early age since her great aunt and mother both wrote. Since her mother was blinded by spinal meningitis before she was born\, Deirdre helped her to write by correcting spelling\, et al. She has been writing since then with Christopher Trian\, with whom she’s spent 47 years. She has been going to poetry readings with Chris throughout that time. \nBorn in 1953 in Boston\, “Vampyre” Mike Kassel moved to San Francisco in 1974 and was given his nickname by an audience at the Mabuhay Gardens who called for “Vampire Mike.” In 1980 Mike’s play Bat Soup\, a musical comedy version of Dracula\, ran for 86 performances at the Hotel Utah. His bands included The Hellhounds\, The Fabulous Dumonts\, The Bones of Kryptos\, the Welfare Cheats\, and the ‘60s homage band The Mysterious Icewyrms. He established himself as a spoken word powerhouse in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s at the Cafe Babar and the Above Paradise Lounge. He had seven books\, including Going for the Low Blow (Zeitgeist Press\, 1989); I Want to Kill Everything (Zeitgeist Press\, 1990); Graveyard Golf (Manic D Press 1991); The Worlds According to Loki (Valknot Publishing\, 2001); and Toxic Vaudeville (Ajax Press of San Francisco\, 2007). His work has been translated into German\, Czech and Russian. He also wrote for the Western Edition newspaper\, the quarterly Yggdrasil\, and the Sunday magazine of the San Francisco Chronicle/Examiner. Mike died suddenly of pneumonia on March 22\, 2008. Two posthumous books have emerged\, The Dead Poet Talks Back (Zeitgeist Press 2009) and the newly released Bat Flower: Poems\, Plays\, and Other Perversions (Last Laugh Productions\, 2019).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babar-in-exile-21-till-death-do-we-part/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Avenue\, Berkeley\, 94703
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Oakland | Ivanna Baranova CONFIRMATION BIAS Launch & Reading
DESCRIPTION:Since November 19th Guatemalan-Slovak poet Ivanna Baranova has been touring across Canada and the US with her debut full-length poetry collection CONFIRMATION BIAS (Metatron Press\, 2019). Now after a month\, it’s finally here in Oakland\, CA at Wolfman Books or one night only. I mean the book will be there afterwards (if it isn’t sold out!) but she won’t\, so please join us for this launch event featuring readings from Ren Cook\, Alexandra Naughton\, Brent Reichenberger\, and Jesse Prado.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-ivanna-baranova-confirmation-bias-launch-reading/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Oakland Poetry Slam Ft. L7
DESCRIPTION:We’re back and better than ever! Come join us at our new venue\, The Flight Deck\, conveniently located in Downtown Oakland near 19th St BART Station . Bring your poetry\, your music\, your dance\, you art\, but most importantly bring yourself! \nOur feature for the night is non other than Chris Cuadrado aka “L7!” \nChris “L7” Cuadrado is a culture worker & propagandist from Inglewood\, CA. L7 uses words\, sights\, and sounds to further radical and critical thought. L7 draws from the aesthetic and political traditions of revolutionaries\, agitators\, and poor peoples movements from across the globe. L7 is committed to creating work that reflects the struggle of colonized and oppressed people\, while aligning with their movements for liberation\, self-determination\, and decolonization. \nL7 is also founder and co-host of the Poets of Color Podcast. \nLive Stream Provided by Berkeley Poetry Slam! \nDoors Open at 7 pm\nWorkshop @ 7:20\nSign up lists go out at 7:15 pm \nShow starts at 8:15 pm! \n💲Cover💲 \n$5 for performers \n$10 for audience \nPlease email oakslambooking@gmail.com for any questions regarding the space\, accessibility and accommodations!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-oakland-poetry-slam-ft-l7/
LOCATION:The Flight Deck\, 1540 Broadway\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Cherríe Moraga: Native Country of the Heart
DESCRIPTION:Cherríe Moraga discusses her new memoir\, Native Country of the Heart. \nPraise for Native Country of the Heart \n“I love A Native Country of the Heart‘s forthright blending of a bio of Moraga’s intriguing powerhouse mom\, Elivira\, with Moraga’s own queer evolution. And that the intimate facts of Cherríe Moraga’s family history get embedded alongside such valuable public secrets as the mass deportation of Mexican workers during the depression so that dust bowl farmers could have their jobs. This book is a coup.” —Eileen Myles\, author of Afterglow \n“A beautiful\, painful\, funny\, heartening and heartfelt immersion in the life of one of the leading voices of Latino/a literature\, our very own Cherríe Moraga. Part elegy\, part history and part testimonio rife with storytelling\, Native Country of the Heart\, like all of Moraga’s work\, charts the unmapped and unspoken territories of body\, mind\, heart and soul and refuses to be confined by any border or genre. Her memoir is a defiant\, deep and soulful book about all our mothers\, mother cultures\, motherlands and languages. Telling her own mother Elvira’s story is both a political and ceremonial act. “We were not supposed to remember\,” Moraga writes. She does remember\, and in this moving and brave book she gives us all a reckoning our country needs now. —Julia Alvarez\, author of In the Time of the Butterflies \n“Cherríe Moraga\, a foundational contributor to modern Feminism\, grapples with her fierce but withholding Mexican mother who—despite their struggles—remains her strongest touchstone of identification. A raw and vulnerable story of acceptance hard won.” —Sarah Schulman\, author of The Cosmopolitans and Conflict is Not Abuse \n“This a great book. In telling her mother’s life-story Cherríe Moraga ruthlessly examines her own heart and the deep complications of growing up mixed race and lesbian in a racist culture. But she also lays bare the spiritual core that strengthens and sustains her. The heart\, the soul\, familia and tribe\, the native country is as narrow as the space between clenched fingers and as wide as the sightlines to the horizon.” —Dorothy Allison\, author of Bastard Out of Carolina \nAbout Native Country of the Heart \nFrom the celebrated editor of This Bridge Called My Back\, Cherríe Moraga charts her own coming-of-age alongside her mother’s decline\, and also tells the larger story of the Mexican American diaspora. \nNative Country of the Heart: A Memoir is\, at its core\, a mother-daughter story. The mother\, Elvira\, was hired out as a child\, along with her siblings\, by their own father to pick cotton in California’s Imperial Valley. The daughter\, Cherríe Moraga\, is a brilliant\, pioneering\, queer Latina feminist. The story of these two women\, and of their people\, is woven together in an intimate memoir of critical reflection and deep personal revelation. \nAs a young woman\, Elvira left California to work as a cigarette girl in glamorous late-1920s Tijuana\, where an ambiguous relationship with a wealthy white man taught her life lessons about power\, sex\, and opportunity. As Moraga charts her mother’s journey—from impressionable young girl to battle-tested matriarch to\, later on\, an old woman suffering under the yoke of Alzheimer’s—she traces her own self-discovery of her gender-queer body and Lesbian identity\, as well as her passion for activism and the history of her pueblo. As her mother’s memory fails\, Moraga is driven to unearth forgotten remnants of a U.S. Mexican diaspora\, its indigenous origins\, and an American story of cultural loss. \nPoetically wrought and filled with insight into intergenerational trauma\, Native Country of the Heart is a reckoning with white American history and a piercing love letter from a fearless daughter to the mother she will never lose.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cherrie-moraga-native-country-of-the-heart/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Wendy Taylor Carlisle & Kimi Sugioka
DESCRIPTION:WENDY TAYLOR CARLISLE’s new book is The Mercy of Traffic. Tony Hoagland said\, “Wendy Carlisle’s poems come out wearing their red shoes and ready to dance. The lives she sketches flame underfoot so the soles of your feet are ‘burned like little suns’ and when we read this book of grace and empathy ‘we are assured there will be sparks\, then blasts and blowups\, offerings of flame and dust…’”Her publications include the full-length books Reading Berryman to the Dog and Discount Fireworks\, plus five chapbooks\, most recently They Went Down to the Beach to Play. Her work is in anthologies such as In Plein Air\, Untold Arkansas\, and 50/50: Poems and Translations by Womxn Over Fifty. She has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in the Arkansas Ozarks.\n\nKIMI SUGIOKA’s brand new poetry book is Wile & Wing. Anne Waldman said\, “Kimi Sugioka is a poet with a lot of guises: maternal\, witchy\, passionate\, detached observer…She moves through the female cycle confidently\, poised\, strong in her observance and power.” Born in Chapel Hill\, North Carolina and raised in Berkeley\, California\, Kimi Sugioka is a poet\, songwriter\, and educator. She performs her work frequently throughout the Bay Area. She has worked in public education for decades\, and earned her BA from San Francisco State University and MFA from the Naropa Institute in Boulder\, Colorado.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wendy-taylor-carlisle-kimi-sugioka/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes at TLC
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… Open Mic at The Lost Church – San Francisco w/Ned Buskirk \n$10 in advance & at the door.\nTICKETS HERE: http://bit.ly/YG2D_Nov14\nAnd support MORE with ticket tiers. You choose the amount.\nThe tickets tiers are direct ways of offering more support to YG2D\, a 501(c)3 Non-profit bringing diverse communities creatively into the conversation of death & dying\, inspiring life by unabashedly sourcing our shared mortality.\nThank you for any additional help you can offer.\nAnd please contact ned@yg2d.com if you need financial support to be a part of the evening. \nVenue: The Lost Church – San Francisco\nThe Lost Church is CASH ONLY at the door (at this time). \nDoors at 7:30pm.\nShow at 8:15pm.\nAll performances end at 10:30pm.\nSeating is first come\, first served. \nWe recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (parlor shows often sell out)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show (although\, we do NOT set aside a block of tickets for door purchase) \nAges 10 and over are welcome. (Parental discretion is advised for some events). \n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\, the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-at-tlc/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:MFA in Writing Reading Series - Jamel Brinkley
DESCRIPTION:Jamel Brinkley is the author of A Lucky Man: Stories\, a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction\, the Story Prize\, the John Leonard Prize\, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize\, and winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. His writing has appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2018\, Ploughshares\, Gulf Coast\, Glimmer Train\, American Short Fiction\, and Tin House. He is currently a 2018-20 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mfa-in-writing-reading-series-jamel-brinkley/
LOCATION:USF Fromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191116T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191116T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135712
CREATED:20191107T073827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191107T073827Z
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SUMMARY:Love With Accountability: Digging Up The Roots of Child Sexual Abuse
DESCRIPTION:Despite the current survivor-affirming awareness around sexual violence\, child sexual abuse\, most notably when it’s a family member or friend\, is still a very taboo topic. There are approximately 42 million child sexual abuse survivors in the U.S. and millions of bystanders who look the other way as the abuse occurs and cover for the harm-doers with no accountability. Documentary filmmaker and survivor of child sexual abuse and adult rape\, Aishah Shahidah Simmons invites diasporic Black people to join her in transformative storytelling that envisions a world that ends child sexual abuse without relying on the criminal justice system. Love WITH Accountability features compelling writings by child sexual abuse survivors\, advocates\, and Simmons’s mother\, who underscores the detrimental impact of parents/caregivers not believing their children when they disclose their sexual abuse. This collection explores disrupting the inhumane epidemic of child sexual abuse\, humanely.\n\n“With this brave and healing anthology of truth-telling about sexual abuse within Black families\, Aishah Shahidah Simmons sets an example for all families. If we could all raise just one generation of children without violence or the threat of violence\, who knows what might be possible?” – Gloria Steinem\n\n \nThese co-panelists (in alphabetical order) will join Simmons: Qui Alexander\, Rosa Cabrera\, Cecelia Falls\, Thea Matthews\, Loretta Ross and Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/love-with-accountability-digging-up-the-roots-of-child-sexual-abuse/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191117T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191117T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135712
CREATED:20191118T074237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191118T074237Z
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SUMMARY:David L. Eng: Racial Melancholia\, Racial Dissociation
DESCRIPTION:In Racial Melancholia\, Racial Dissociation David L. Eng draws on psychoanalytic case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore how first- and second-generation Asian American young adults deal with difficulties such as depression\, suicide\, and coming out within the larger social context of race\, immigration\, and sexuality. \nThe New Yorker’s Hua Hsu writes: “There’s a power in being able to recognize our struggles as the result of paradoxes we live within rather than seeing them as purely private failings. It’s a step toward imagining lives that we might be the authors of\, with endings that we write ourselves.” \nDavid L. Eng is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. \nPresented by Eastwind Books of Berkeley & Ethnic Studies \nFree and open to the public; The ESL has an ADA accessible front entrance and access to two ADA accessible restrooms | asiabookcenter.com | 510-548-2350
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-l-eng-racial-melancholia-racial-dissociation/
LOCATION:UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library\, 30 Stephens Hall\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191117T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191117T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135712
CREATED:20191107T172005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191107T172005Z
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SUMMARY:Family Sacrifices: Book Talk with Dr. Russell Jeung
DESCRIPTION:The first book based on national survey data on Asian American religious practices\, Family Sacrifices is a seminal text on the fastest-growing racial group in the United States. Fifty-two percent of Chinese Americans report having no religious affiliation\, making them the least religiously identified ethnic group in the United States. Family Sacrifices reveals that Chinese Americans employ familism\, not religion\, as the primary narrative by which they find meaning\, identity\, and belonging. \nDr. Russell M. Jeung is Chair and Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. The author of books and articles on Asian Americans\, religion\, and race\, he’s a community activist and church leader in East Oakland\, CA. Dr. Jeung’s memoir\, At Home in Exile\, shares his family’s six generations in the U.S. and his life with refugees. \nCo-sponsored by Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, and San Francisco State University Asian American Studies Department.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/family-sacrifices-book-talk-with-dr-russell-jeung/
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191118T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135712
CREATED:20191107T172434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191107T172434Z
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SUMMARY:The Racket #36 : SOUND
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate our third year of existence we’ve decided to tap the senses\, to trod upon that which is most audible\, to get a bunch of people in a room to hear other people talk about SOUND. We are people who are into sound(s)\, be it music or the chirps and tweets and gusty winds of the great outdoors or just the varied beeps and boops of our cellphone alarms in the morning. We love the power of the sonic wave and damn it\, we wanted to ask some great writers to read about it. \nAlso\, free beer until there is no free beer. At the event\, not in the world. \nThe Readers (so far): \nRoy Dufrain Jr.\nSamantha Schoech\nDanielle Truppi\nAnnelies Zijderveld\nSarah Bethe Nelson\nJames Cagney\nSage The Poet \nMusical Performance by Bryson Schmidt
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-36-sound/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191118T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135712
CREATED:20191107T172249Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191107T172249Z
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SUMMARY:Joyce E. Young at Poetry Express Nov 18
DESCRIPTION:Open Mic + free (except for restaurant purchases) 7pm. 11/18/2019\nJoyce E. Young is the author of How it Happens\, published by Nomadic Press. Her writing has been nominated for both a Pushcart and a California Book Award\nand has appeared in Smith Alumnae Quarterly\, WORDPEACE\, riverbabble\, The New Poets of the American West\, and elsewhere. She has received grants from the California Arts Council\, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation and Writers on Site residency program at the Oakland Museum and Oakland Public Library through\nPoets & Writers\, Inc. Joyce has been awarded residencies at Virginia Center for\nthe Creative Arts\, Hedgebrook\, Soapstone and Vermont Studio Center. She works as a Writing Consultant at John F. Kennedy University\, teaches writing privately\, and is currently at work writing poetry\, essays\, and Parallel Journey\, a novel.\nJoyce maintains regular Yoga and Chi Gung practice and is a semi-retired Afro\nCuban folkloric and modern dancer. She keeps lots of music in her life\,\nparticularly Jazz\, Salsa\, Reggae\, Samba\, and combinations of notes that defy \ncategory. In reality\, though\, she really doesn’t like to assign categories for music. \nBecause \nLike angels are supposed to\nYou don’t do it because\nyou want to be good\,\nget candy\, or ice cream \nYou do it because you love\nAnd forgetting all else\nYou tend to her or him\,\nwatching\, waiting\, praying\nfor life\, health\, the best\nfor that person or persons \nyou love
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-e-young-at-poetry-express-nov-18/
LOCATION:Poetry Express\, 1585 University Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191118T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135712
CREATED:20191112T075628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191118T080101Z
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SUMMARY:East Bay Release for Disasterama! at Badass Bookworm’s Lit Loft
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the East Bay release of “Disasterama”\, Alvin Orloff’s fantabulous new memoir of ’90’s SF wild club kid\, AIDS-activism\, agitprop performance\, and homocore culture. He hit it spot on with both wit and gravitas. \nAlvin will read from the book\, of course\, preceded by shiny crew Sam Sax\, Dena Rod\, Richard Loranger\, Vernon Keeve III\, & Anna Allen. Clearly a gathering that is not to be missed. \nI’ve made a second invite for this because Facebook\, in all its culture-crushing wisdom\, won’t let me send the original to more than 30 people or so. This one won’t even let me invite more than 50. I’ve tried to avoid repeats\, but if you’ve received both\, my apologies. If you can\, PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD. 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/east-bay-release-for-disasterama-at-badass-bookworms-lit-loft/
LOCATION:The Legionnaire Saloon\, 2272 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Power Unit 17":MAILTO:hello@richardloranger.com
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