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SUMMARY:Book Launch: AIDS\, Art & the Origins of the Culture War by Robert Atkins (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join Visual AIDS for a conversation with Visual AIDS co-founder Robert Atkins on the occasion of his new book\, AIDS\, Art & the Origins of the Culture War: Selected Writings of Robert Atkins. He will be joined by Sarah Schulman and Jackson Davidow to discuss the Culture War\, defined as a Christian Nationalist assault on the increasingly multicultural society and liberal ethos that emerged in the 1960s in the new form of attacks by Americans on other Americans. Media-savvy politicians and religious figures took advantage of relatively new and little-known groups–artists\, queers\, and people with AIDS. Despite their initial lack of support\, members of these groups soon applied their art and media practices to effectively oppose authoritarian inroads on the Constitution’s First-Amendment guarantees of free expression. “But\,” Atkins wonders\,” “have we already slid too far back from the future to avoid another full-scale medical crisis?” \nAIDS\, Art & the Origins of the Culture War presents three-and-a-half decades of articles and essays stemming from these contentious assaults on the rights of individuals\, institutions\, and\, by extension\, all Americans. A staff columnist for the Village Voice during the 1980s and 90s\, Atkins produced both eye-witness reporting and thoughtful analysis from 1987 and the debut of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in Washington\, DC to the most recently published piece collected for the book\, his 2019 review of Benjamin Moser’s biography of Susan Sontag. The book also features When the Culture War Became the Culture\, his lengthy\, recently written cultural history of the past half century in the US against which the book’s narrative plays out. \n  \nTo reserve a copy of AIDS\, Art & the Origins of the Culture War  please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve AIDS\, Art & the Origins of the Culture War for March 1 event” in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n  \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nThe Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @BGSQD \n  \nRobert Atkins is a UC Berkeley-trained art historian\, journalist\, curator\, and educator. A former columnist for The Village Voice\, he has written for more than 100 publications worldwide. Among his many books is Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression\, published by the New Press. He has curated exhibitions in far-flung venues from Sao Paolo\, Brazil to New York and co-curated From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS\, the first international traveling exhibition of AIDS art. A pioneer of online art production and commentary\, he is a fellow of the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University and producer of Artery: the AIDS Arts Forum. He is also a founder of Visual AIDS\, the producers of Day With(out) Art and the Red Ribbon. \n  \nJackson Davidow is a writer\, curator\, and art historian. \n  \nSarah Schulman is a novelist\, playwright\, nonfiction writer\, screenwriter\, and AIDS historian. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/atkins/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Radical Queer Reading Group: Perfect Victims (in person only)
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we read radical leftist texts with a focus on queer liberation\, anti-capitalism\, and anti-colonialism. For March 11th\, we’re reading Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal\, by Mohammed El-Kurd (Haymarket Books\, February 11\, 2025\, paperback\, $17.95).\n  \nWe’ll meet on Wednesday\, March 11th\, at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division in room 210 of The LGBT Community Center in the West Village\, 7-8 PM.\n  \nCopies of Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal\, by Mohammed El-Kurd (Haymarket Books\, February 11\, 2025\, paperback\, $17.95) are available to purchase at the Bureau. Purchase the book before March 11th and receive 15% off ($15.26 instead of $17.95). Just mention the Radical Queer Reading Group when you check out.\n\nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!\n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \n​
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SUMMARY:lesbian book club: March Edition
DESCRIPTION:We’ll be reading fiction and non-fiction — classic\, contemporary\, revealing and visionary. As a group we will decide what to read each month\, focusing on lesbian authors and/or related topics. Co-founded by lesbian book lovers Judi Komaki and Piper Olsen. \n\n\nFor our March 14th meeting\, we’ll read With Teeth\, by Kristen Arnett (Riverhead Books\, May 31\, 2022\, paperback\, $16). \nPurchase a copy of With Teeth before March 14th\, and receive a 15% discount ($13.60 instead of $16). Just mention the lesbian book club when making your purchase. \n\nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n\n\nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/lesbian-book-club-march/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:TELL: My Favorite Story (in person only)
DESCRIPTION:TELL is a monthly queer storytelling show hosted and curated by Drae Campbell. It is the longest running event at the Bureau! 12 years and going. Each month there is a different theme and a different line up of queer artists who tell true stories from their lives on a theme. \nThe theme for March 21\, 2026 is My Favorite Story\, featuring storytellers Lisa Davis\, Heather Lynn Johnson\, and Jilberto Soto. \n\nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n  \nSuggested donation to benefit the storytellers and the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @BGSQD \n  \nDrae Campbell is the host and curator of TELL\, an award winning podcast that can be found anywhere you listen to podcasts. \nTheater: The Nosebleed (Lincoln Center Theater\, Woolly Mammoth Theater & National Tour\, Lortel Nominated)\, Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater)\, Only You Can Prevent Wildfires (Teatro Circulo)\, My Old Man (Dixon Place)\, Storm Still (DirectorFest\, Drama League)\, La Cage Aux Folles (Barrington Stage Company). \nFilm and TV:Senior Escort Service\, Blunderpuss\, It’s Very Common\, TOW. \nTV: Bull\, New Amsterdam. \nBFA\, The University Of The Arts \nIg @draebiz and @tellqueerz \n  \n\nWith a PhD in Comparative Literature\, Lisa Davis taught Hispanic Languages and Literatures at SUNY Stony Brook and York College CUNY. She also collaborated with the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Hunter College\, CUNY) and Areito\, a publication of the New-York based Circulo de Cultura Cubana. Her novel Under the Mink (2001\, 2015) re-creates the 1940s world of Village nightclubs that featured drag shows and strip acts. Her non-fiction chronicle of the career of lesbian FBI informant Angela Calomiris (who testified for the prosecution at the 1949 trial of the National Board of the American Communist Party) is called Undercover Girl (Charlesbridge Publishing\, 2017). Both books are available. Other highlights of her career include meeting Fidel Castro and almost drowning in the Colorado River. \n  \n  \nHeather Lynn Johnson (she\, they) is an artist and poet living in Brooklyn whose work is characterized by its lyricism and cultural critique. Centering queer and Black American liberation with an emphasis on outsiders\, rebels\, and lost histories into an autobiographical framework\, Heather’s formal approach to the narrative\, whether visual or poetic\, is distinguished by her willingness to lay bare her own existence. Their paintings have recently been in a two-person exhibition at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art\, NY (2026)\, and in exhibitions for Pace Gallery’s project space 125 Newbury Gallery\, NY (2025)\, Metropolitan Museum of Art\, NY (2024)\, Canada Gallery\, NY (2023) and at her solo exhibition\, “The Essence We Leave Behind” at Nesto Gallery\, MA\, (2022). Heather has exhibited internationally for the Queer Arts Festival in Antwerp\, Belgium\, (2020) and published poems in the Panorama Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art\, Pique Magazine\, Pine Magazine\, and Facility Magazine. They have been invited to read poems for Experiments & Disorders at Dixon Place\, Ford Foundation\, Segue Reading Series at Artists Space\, Knockdown Center\, and the Brooklyn Arts Book Fair. Heather was a co-curator for Queer|Art|Film from 2020-23\, the 2019 Leslie-Lohman Museum Fellow\, and the 2017 Literary Fellow for Queer|Art|Mentorship. She is also the author of The Survival Guide For Queer Black Youth (Inpatient Press\, 2017) and received an MFA with honors from the Rhode Island School of Design. \n  \nJilberto Soto is a first gen. Mexican American stand up comedian. He began comedy in London and moved to NYC during the pandemic. He co-produces two shows: Purple Park Comedy- showcasing upcoming POC/female comics and Mariposas Comedy – a curated all queer line up. Alongside co-producing\, he also hosts his own podcast: I hope this ages well\, which centers around the interesting lives of senior members around NYC.
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SUMMARY:Queering Family Legacies: A Reading with Poets J Brooke\, Jendi Reiter\, and Brad Richard (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:How do our queer identities both complicate and creatively expand the family roles we have inherited? Brad Richard’s Turned Earth explores who he is as a husband\, mentor\, and nurturer of the land\, in the shadow of his mother’s death. In J Brooke’s debut collection\, I Can Tell You the Version That Will Make You Take My Side\, they push against expectations of social class and misplaced assumptions of gender to craft their own language for being a partner and parent. Jendi Reiter’s Introvert Pervert grapples with violent American ideologies of the family\, using both satire and tenderness to depict how they and their loved ones have grown through their gender transition. \n  \nTo reserve a copy of any of the featured titles  please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve book(s) for March 22 event” in the subject line\, and let us know which of the titles in the body of the email. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n  \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nThe Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @BGSQD \n  \nJ Brooke’s full-length poetry book\, I Can Tell You the Version That Will Make You Take My Side\, is forthcoming in 2026 from Driftwood Press. The collection won the Editor’s Choice Prize at Driftwood and was a Finalist for Ashland Press’s 2025 Richard Snyder Poetry Prize. Brooke has received two Pushcart Prize nominations and a 2025 Best of the Net nomination\, and was a Finalist for the 2025 Iowa Review Nonfiction Prize. Their autobiographical essay “HYBRID” won Columbia Journal’s 2020 Special Issue Nonfiction Award. They have work in The Rumpus\, Electric Lit\, The Normal School\, The Sun\, Maine Review\, Harvard Review and elsewhere. Brooke is Prose Book Reviews Editor at The Rumpus\, former Nonfiction Editor at Stonecoast Review\, and former guest faculty at USM (where they received an MFA in 2019). \nAbout the book: \nJ Brooke’s fiercely political and tender exploration of their American trans experience\, I Can Tell You the Story That Will Make You Take My Side\, begins in a rich and specific New York City childhood full of binaries\, then catapults into a fully realized\, self-aware adulthood where the speaker experiences parenting\, a breast cancer scare\, and the complicated questioning of top-surgery. \n  \nBrad Richard’s books include Turned Earth (Louisiana State University Press\, 2025)\, Motion Studies (The Word Works\, 2011; 2nd expanded edition\, 2025)\, Butcher’s Sugar (Sibling Rivalry Press\, 2012)\, and Parasite Kingdom (The Word Works\, 2019). He has also published several chapbooks\, including In Place (Seven Kitchens Press\, 2022). A 2015 Louisiana Artist of the Year and 2002 winner of the Poets & Writers Exchange Award in Poetry (selected by Reginald Shepherd)\, he taught creative writing to talented high school students in New Orleans for twenty-eight years. A faculty member of the Kenyon Review Writing Workshops and an independent teacher and editor\, he lives\, writes\, and gardens in New Orleans. \nAbout the book: \nTurned Earth\, Richard’s fifth collection\, offers a portrait of the artist as a grieving son who is also a husband\, teacher\, gardener\, and attentive witness to our precarious world. Navigating life after his mother’s death\, the speaker uses memory and imagination to understand\, as one poem’s title declares\, “How I Came to This.” Tender and trenchant\, elegiac yet often livened by humor\, Richard’s poems affirm the sustaining power of hope and love. \n  \nJendi Reiter is the author of the novels Origin Story and Two Natures\, both from Saddle Road Press; the short story collection An Incomplete List of My Wishes (Sunshot Press); and five poetry books and chapbooks\, including Made Man and Bullies in Love\, both from Little Red Tree Publishing. Their awards include a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship for Poetry\, the New Letters Prize for Fiction\, the Oscar Wilde Poetry Prize from Gival Press\, and two awards from the Poetry Society of America. They are the editor of WinningWriters.com\, an online resource for markets and contests for creative writers. They live in Western Massachusetts with their husband and son and an extroverted cat. \nAbout the book: \nIntrovert Pervert\, published by The Word Works in 2026\, uses news stories\, humor\, and the surreal to depict parenting with childhood trauma\, how a long-term marriage shifts to accommodate gender transition\, and the irony of political rhetoric casting queer people as a threat to children\, juxtaposed with the real threats of climate change and gun violence. \n 
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SUMMARY:Radical Queer Reading Group: Chain-Gang All-Stars (in person only)
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we read radical leftist texts with a focus on queer liberation\, anti-capitalism\, and anti-colonialism. For April 8th\, we’re reading Chain-Gang All-Stars\, by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\, January 23\, 2024\, paperback\, $18).\n  \nWe’ll meet on Wednesday\, April 8th\, at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division in room 210 of The LGBT Community Center in the West Village\, 7-8 PM.\n  \nCopies of Chain-Gang All-Stars\, by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\, January 23\, 2024\, paperback\, $18) are available to purchase at the Bureau. Purchase the book before April 8th and receive 15% off ($15.30 instead of $18). Just mention the Radical Queer Reading Group when you check out.\n  \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!\n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/radical-queer-reading-group-april-2026/
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SUMMARY:Growing Up Golem Relaunch! Donna Minkowitz with Griffin Hansbury (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the republication of Donna Minkowitz’s masterful 2013 memoir Growing Up Golem\, in which queer journalist Minkowitz “presents herself as a golem\, created and controlled by her wacky\, needy\, and sexually abusive mother” (Julie R. Enszer). Golem\, which was shortlisted for both a Lambda Literary Award and for the Publishing Triangle’s Judy Grahn Nonfiction Prize\, tells the story of Minkowitz’s attempts to transform from golem to human\, and to be “a servant no longer for her mother\, her sister\, or the women she dates” (Enszer). \nThe late celebrated novelist Ellis Avery said\, “In Growing Up Golem\, Donna Minkowitz comes to the unlikely\, brilliant conclusion that she must have been her mother’s golem\, a manikin formed from clay and garbage and sacred letters… Exciting\, startlingly fresh. Donna Minkowitz takes a dazzling leap of fancy and then writes a new bridge into being behind her for the rest of us to follow.” \nCopies of the new edition of Growing Up Golem will be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve Growing Up Golem for April 9 event” in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by buying books from us! \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n  \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nThe Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @BGSQD \n  \nDonna Minkowitz is a writer of memoir\, journalism\, and fantasy. Back in the day she served as the Village Voice’s main columnist and reporter on queer politics and culture. She is the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning memoir Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters with the Right Taught Me about Sex\, God\, and Fury\, which was about covering the antigay Christian right undercover as a radical lesbian journalist. She also wrote DONNAVILLE\, a novel Chills at Will called “a master class in world-building” and which Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore said “shocks the senses to open the gates between myth and belonging.” She has also written for the New York Times Book Review\, The Nation\, Slate\, Salon\, and New York magazine. She is the winner of a GLAAD Media Award. \n  \nGriffin Hansbury is the author of Some Strange Music Draws Me In (winner of the Stonewall Award)\, Feral City (finalist for the Lambda Literary Award)\, and Vanishing New York\, as well as The Nostalgist and Day for Night\, a collection of poems. A trailblazer in the field of psychoanalysis\, he was also the first analyst to practice and publish as openly transgender.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/growing-up-golem-relaunch/
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SUMMARY:This Queer Arab Family - NYC Book Launch (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:On 19 April\, the Bureau will host journalist & writer Elias Jahshan for the NYC launch of his latest book\, THIS QUEER ARAB FAMILY – a celebratory book that explores how queer Arab communities reimagine family beyond traditional expectations. Edited and compiled by Elias Jahshan\, the book features ten queer writers from across the Arab world and diaspora\, with stories that honour chosen kinship\, everyday acts of care and the creativity and resilience that sustain queer Arab communities. In many Arab cultures\, family roles are tightly defined\, often prioritising unity over individual desire. This Queer Arab Family questions what happens when queer Arabs challenge those norms and build a family on their own terms. Fierce\, vibrant and unapologetic\, This Queer Arab Family celebrates community\, survival and joy against all odds. \nElias Jahshan will be in conversation with Afeef Nessouli\, followed by an audience Q&A and author signings. Copies of the book will be available to purchase at the event. \n  \nTo reserve a copy of This Queer Arab Family (Saqi Books\, October 14\, 2025\, paperback\, $21.95) or This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology of LGBTQ+ Arab Writers (Saqi Books\, October 18\, 2022\, paperback\, $21.95)\, both edited by Elias Jahshan\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve book(s) for April 19 event” in the subject line\, and let us know which of the titles in the body of the email. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n  \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nThe Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @BGSQD \n  \nElias Jahshan is a Lebanese-Palestinian journalist and writer\, and the editor of groundbreaking anthologies THIS ARAB IS QUEER (2022) and THIS QUEER ARAB FAMILY (2025)\, both published by Saqi Books. This Arab Is Queer was a 2023 Lambda Literary Awards finalist in the USA and shortlisted for the 2023 Bread & Roses Award in the UK\, and has been translated into Italian and soon in French. He has had short memoirs published in several anthologies and has been published in The Guardian\, The New Arab\, Gay Times\, Attitude\, My Kali\, and more. A former editor-in-chief of Star Observer\, Australia’s longest-running LGBTQ+ media outlet\, Elias was born and raised in Sydney\, Australia and now lives in London\, UK. \n  \nAfeef Nessouli is a journalist and host of “With Afeef Nessouli” a weekly livestream about suppressed news\, and monthly interview show featuring journalists and sources. He recently spent nine weeks in Gaza as a humanitarian aid worker with Glia International and as a reporter with The Intercept. He is a recipient of the 2025 FIJ and Pulitzer Center grant awards. Afeef previously worked for Spotify and The Wall Street Journal’s daily news podcast\, “The Journal\,” The Daily Show with Trevor Noah\, CNN\, and as a legal adviser to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture. His current reporting focuses on US politics\, the Middle East\, and queer stories around the world.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/this-queer-arab-family-launch/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:First Epistle to the Amphibians: Brazilian Poetry Book Launch (in person only)
DESCRIPTION:Join World Poetry at the Bureau for a reading featuring acclaimed Brazilian poet Ricardo Domeneck and his translator Chris Daniels\, joined by Chris Nealon and James Loop\, to celebrate the publication of First Epistle to the Amphibians. In this first selected volume of Domeneck’s work to appear in English\, the poet constructs a hyperbolic spiral of artifice\, rage\, and tenderness\, introducing a dense corporeal lyricism salted with camp at its high and low limits into contemporary Brazilian experimental poetry. Brian Teare writes\, “Domeneck appears in English as a masterful performer whose use of form\, style\, tone\, and allusion transforms literature into costume.” \nThe reading will be hosted by World Poetry’s publisher Peter Constantine. \n  \nTo reserve a copy of First Epistle to the Amphibians (World Poetry Books\, April 29\, 2026\, paperback\, $24)\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve First Epistle to the Amphibians for April 24 event” in the subject line\, and let us know which of the titles in the body of the email. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n  \nBrazilian poet and writer Ricardo Domeneck has published ten collections of poems and two of short prose in Brazil and Portugal. Selected volumes of his poems have appeared in German\, Dutch and Spanish\, and his most recent poetry collection\, Cabeça de galinha no chão de cimento (Chicken Head on a Concrete Floor) won two of Brazil’s most prestigious literary awards\, the Prêmio Jabuti and the Prêmio Alphonsus de Guimaraens. Domeneck has lived and worked in Berlin for the past two decades. Working with sound and performance\, he has presented work in several museums and galleries such as Museu de Arte Moderna (Rio de Janeiro)\, Museo Experimental El Eco (Mexico City)\, Emalin The Clerk (London) and Studio Hanniball (Berlin). First Epistle to the Amphibians is the first book of his poetry to appear in English translation. \n  \nChris Daniels is a feral translator of global Lusophone poetry. He has published seven books of translations: On the Shining Screen of the Eyelids by Josely Vianna Baptista\, with artwork by Francisco Faria (Manifest Press); Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro and Collected Later Poems of Álvaro de Campos by Fernando Pessoa (Shearsman); The Hammer by Adelaide Ivánova (Commune Editions); un cuerpo negro / a black body by Lubi Prates (Nueva York Poetry Press)\, co-translated with Grace Holleran; One Impossible Step: Selected Poems of Orides Fontela (Nightboat); and Sometimes I Wonder If Fred Was Happy Here by Adelaide Ivánova (Tripwire). \n  \nChris Nealon is John Dewey Professor in the English Department at Johns Hopkins University. He has written three books of criticism: Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall (2001)\, The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in the American Century (2011)\, and Infinity for Marxists: Essays on Poetry and Capital (2023). He is the co-editor\, with Colleen Lye\, of the collection After Marx: Literature\, Theory and Value in the 21st Century (2022). He is also the author of five books of poetry\, including The Shore\, which was a finalist for the 2020 National Critics’ Book Circle Award. His latest volume of poems is All About You (2024). He is currently completing a book called The Concept of Capital: Marx between The Relative and Absolute. \n  \nJames Loop is a writer from Central New York\, the author of several chapbooks\, and Metronome\, his debut poetry collection published by Winter Editions. His work has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail\, Harp & Altar\, Hot Pink\, Hyperallergic\, Lambda Literary\, Prelude\, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn and works as the Publicity Director for World Poetry. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/first-epistle-to-the-amphibians/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Radical Queer Reading Group: Let This Radicalize You (in person only)
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we read radical leftist texts with a focus on queer liberation\, anti-capitalism\, and anti-colonialism. For May 13th\, we’re reading Let This Radicalize You\, by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba (Haymarket Books\, May 16\, 2023\, paperback\, $17.95).\n  \nWe’ll meet on Wednesday\, May 13th\, at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division in room 210 of The LGBT Community Center in the West Village\, 7-8 PM.\n  \nCopies of Let This Radicalize You\, by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba (Haymarket Books\, May 16\, 2023\, paperback\, $17.95) are available to purchase at the Bureau. Purchase the book before May 13th and receive 15% off ($15.25 instead of $17.95). Just mention the Radical Queer Reading Group when you check out.\n  \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!\n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/radical-queer-reading-group-may/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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