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SUMMARY:The Digital Closet: LGBTQIA+ Censorship Online (online event)
DESCRIPTION:Heteronormative bias is deeply embedded in the internet\, hidden in algorithms\, keywords\, content moderation\, and more. In fact\, the internet has become largely straight by suppressing everything that is not\, forcing LGBTQIA+ content into increasingly narrow channels—rendering it invisible through strategies of digital overreach. The Digital Closet author Alexander Monea joins the Bureau to present a short talk about growing LGBTQIA+ censorship online. Following this presentation\, he will be joined by Shaka McGlotten to discuss additional points\, including how LGBTQIA+ content online blurs lines between SFW and NSFW\, why LGBTQIA+ porn is important\, and more. The conversationalists will close by opening the floor to audience discussion and Q&A. \n  \nRegistration on Eventbrite required in order to gain access to the Zoom link. \n  \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. \nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. Thank you for supporting the Bureau! \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nOnce you have registered on Eventbrite you will receive an email with the link you need to join the event on Zoom – or you can simply return to the Eventbrite page and click on “Access the event.” But you will only be able to access this AFTER you have registered. \n  \nPurchase Alexander Monea‘s The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight (MIT Press\, 2022\, hardcover\, $29.95) from the Bureau’s online store by clicking on the title. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nAlexander Monea is Assistant Professor serving jointly in the English Department and Cultural Studies Program at George Mason University whose research focuses on the historical and cultural impact of computation and fairness\, accountability\, transparency\, and ethics. He is the author of The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight (MIT Press) and co-author of a forthcoming book The Prisonhouse of the Circuit: A New Politics of Control (University of Minnesota Press). \n  \nShaka McGlotten is Professor of Media Studies and Anthropology at Purchase College-SUNY\, where they also serve as Chair of the Gender Studies and Global Black Studies programs. An anthropologist and artist\, their work stages encounters between black study\, queer theory\, media\, and art. They have written and lectured widely on networked intimacies and messy computational entanglements as they interface with qtpoc lifeworlds.
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SUMMARY:Craft Class & Poetry Reading with Patricia Spears Jones (online class)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Virtual Craft Class & Reading with Patricia Spears Jones \nCraft Class will run from 6:30 PM-8:30 PM EDT. Followed by a reading from 8:30 PM-8:45 PM. \nRegistration on Eventbrite required in order to gain access to the Zoom link. \nSuggested donation to benefit the instructor: $10 \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nOnce you have registered on Eventbrite you will receive an email with the link you need to join the event on Zoom – or you can simply return to the Eventbrite page and click on “Access the event.” But you will only be able to access this AFTER you have registered. \n  \nWorking Words \nThis workshop focuses on expanding the writer’s word choice. Poets often use a few words over and over. One way to break this pattern is to use different words–ones that have not been used. This workshop uses an exercise to generate new poems and as a tool that the students can take with them. Participants will review a prompt\, write\, and discuss their vocabulary choices. \n  \nPatricia Spears Jones is a poet\, educator\, cultural activist\, anthologist\, and recipient of 2017 Jackson Poetry Prize and is author of A Lucent Fire New and Selected Poems and three full-length collections and five chapbooks. She coedited the groundbreaking anthology Ordinary Women: An Anthology of New York City Women (1978) and THINK: Poems for Aretha Franklin’s Inauguration Day Hat (2009). Her poems are widely anthologized\, most notably in Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin: BAX: Best American Experimental Writing\, 2016\, WORD: An Anthology by A Gathering of Tribes\, African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song\, and Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry. Jones’s poems have appeared in many print and online journals\, such as the New Yorker\, the Brooklyn Rail\, Persimmon Tree: An Online Magazine of the Arts by Women\, Cutthroat Journal\, and Plume. Her essays\, blogs\, colloquies\, and interviews have been published in the collections Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry and The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent; they have also appeared in print and online journals\, including The Black Scholar\, Bomb\, Mosaic\, the Harriet blog on poetryfoundation.org\, Pangyrus\, The Poetry Project Newsletter\, The Rumpus\, and The Writers Chronicle. https://psjones.com \n 
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