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SUMMARY:TELL 43: Higher Learning
DESCRIPTION:  \nTELL is an evening of story telling from the mouths and minds of queers in NYC hosted by Drae Campbell at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division since February 2014. \nHigher Learning is the theme for the 43rd installment of TELL. Featuring Jude Dry\, Jimena Lucero\, Mindy Raf\, and Pauline Park. \n$10 suggested donation to support the Bureau and the performers. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n  \n \nDrae Campbell is a writer\, actor\, director\, story teller\, dancer\, and nightlife emcee. Drae has been featured on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and on stages all over NYC. Drae’s directing work has appeared in Iceland\, NYC\, Budapest and in the San Francisco Fringe Festival. The short film Drae wrote and starred in with Rebecca Drysdale\, YOU MOVE ME won the Audience Award for Outstanding Narrative Short at OUTFEST 2010 and has been shown in festivals globally. Drae won the grand prize at the first annual San Miguel De Allende Storytelling Festival in Mexico. She once reigned as Miss LEZ and also got dubbed “the next lezzie comedian on the block” by AfterEllen.com for her comedic stylings on the interwebs. Campbell hosts and curates a monthly queer storytelling show called TELL at BGSQD. Check her out online!  www.draecampbell.com. \n  \n  \n \nJude Dry is a writer and performer living in Brooklyn by way of Vermont. By day\, Jude writes about queer film for IndieWire. By night\, they ponder the meaning of a life well lived. Jude is currently single. \n  \n  \n\nJimena Lucero is a poet and activist born and raised in NYC. She was a 2017 Pushcart Prize nominee. \nShe is co-organizer of the TransisMagick Collective which pushes for trans liberation through art & community building. Jimena’s work appears in EOAGH and Blueshift Journal. \n  \n  \n \nMindy Raf is a comedian\, actress\, writer and musician based in Brooklyn\, New York. Mindy has contributed to MTV’s GIRL CODE\, COLLEGEHUMOR\, TNT\, VH1\, The Daily Comedy Network\, and the MY PARENTS WERE AWESOME anthology. Mindy’s debut young adult novel The Symptoms of My Insanity (DIAL/Penguin) is out now. Her critically acclaimed solo comedy show NOT THE ONE: a love story was named an “LBGT Best Bet by Time OutNew York\, “hilariously quirky” by Theatre Is Easy\, “Barrier Breaking” by The Edinburgh Reporter\, and “cheeky and infectious” by Ed Fest Magazine. Recently debuting Off Broadway at 59e59 Theatre and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival\, it is now playing monthly in NYC at Theaterlab: next show April 18. For more info please visit: mindyraf.com \n  \n  \n \nPauline Park (paulinepark.com) is chair of the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA)\, which she co-founded in 1998\, and president of the board of directors of Queens Pride House\, which she co-founded in 1997. Pauline also co-founded the Out People of Color Political Action Club\, the first political club by and for LGBT people of color in New York City\, which she co-founded in 2001\, serving as co-president of the club from 2007-2010. And she co-founded Iban/Queer Koreans of New York in 1997\, which she served as coordinator of from 1997-1999. Pauline led the campaign for passage of the transgender rights law enacted by the New York City Council in 2002.  In 2005\, she became the first openly transgendered grand marshal of the New York City Pride March. Pauline participated in the first US LGBTQ delegation tour of Palestine in 2012 and was the keynote speaker at the Queer Korea Festival/Seoul Pride Parade\, the largest event in the history of the LGBT community of Korea up until that point. Pauline did her B.A. in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, her M.Sc. in European Studies at the London School of Economics and her Ph.D. in political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana. \n  \n  \n 
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