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SUMMARY:Queer Collage Party
DESCRIPTION:  \nIt’s time for another Queer Collage Party! We provide the glue sticks and scissors\, you provide the pictures and paper/cardboard. Everyone who attends should bring at least one magazine or book or a bunch of pictures that you’ll contribute to the group. Each person can make their own collage(s)\, or team up with others! You can keep your own collage(s)\, but don’t expect to walk away with your magazine intact! The spirit here is fun and sharing. Attend for part or all of the afternoon. You are encouraged but not required to bring a little snack to share — chips\, tangerines\, grapes\, hummus\, whatever. \nSuggested donation of $10 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-collage-party-6/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170513T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170513T213000
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SUMMARY:TELL 34: Beginnings
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. \nBEGINNINGS is the theme of the thirty-fourth installment of TELL. Featuring Dorrell Clark\, Matthew K. Johnson\, and Justine Williams. \n  \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 \nDorrell Clark was born in New York City (Harlem Hospital) and grew up in Winsor\, North Carolina. She received her A.A.S. degree\, at Bronx Community College; majoring in Chemistry. Dorrell joined the US Army ranking as Private First Class. After 26 years of employment with NYC’s MTA\, she retired in 2011. Without a breather she jumped right into volunteering her services with:{BAAD} Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance\, SOUNDVIEW COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM\, MISTAH COLES PRODUCTION COMPANY and Susana Cook’s Co. Dorrell understands the rhythm and importance of preparation\, hard work\, and respect. Applying these values to her endeavors by making an inventory of resources\, planning activities and working on her goals daily. Her past experiences has completely supported her development and she is thankful for it. \n  \n  \n \nMatthew K. Johnson is a playwright\, poet\, storyteller and fiction writer originally from Honolulu\, Hawaii. He has been a featured performer at numerous venues around New York City\, including the Bowery Poetry Club\, the C.O.W. Theater and Dixon Place\, and was the creator and host of “Tongue Lashing”\, a literary series at The Phoenix in the East Village that ran from 2007 to 2010. He lives in Brooklyn. \n  \n \nJustine is a performer-creator-educator working across disciplines and fields of study. She is founder and current Den Mother to Queer Scouts\, a civic performance project that takes up the traditional Boy and Girl Scouts\, re-imagining their handbooks\, histories and practices through a queer\, and creative/critical/activist lens. Her work as a creator-performer has been presented at the Public Theater\, Ars Nova\, Yale Rep\, Berkeley Rep\, the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, Queens Museum\, and her film work has presented at Maryland Film Festival\, MOMA’s New Directors/New Films\, Rotterdam Film Festival and others. She was a 2016 Queer Arts Mentorship fellow in Performance\, and is currently an Artist-in-Residence at Abrons Arts with the Queer Scouts. Justine teaches clown\, play\, games and creation at Yale School of Drama\, as well as within traditional and alternative learning spaces around the globe. MFA: CUNY/Brooklyn College in Performance and Interactive Media Arts\nwww.play-mountain.org \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-34-beginnings/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170512T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170512T210000
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SUMMARY:Resist\, Rebel\, Transgress: Nothing Without Us Screening
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn conjunction with the Bureau’s current exhibition\, The Lesbian Avengers: 25th Anniversary Exhibition: \nFriday\, May 12  7 p.m. Lesbian Avengers 25 event series\, “Resist\, Rebel\, Transgress.” A screening of the powerful film\, Nothing Without Us\, by Harriet Hirshorn and Mary Patierno about women fighting AIDS worldwide. \nNothing Without Us is the first and only documentary telling the story of the inspiring women at the forefront of the global AIDS movement. Combining archival footage and interviews with female activists\, scientists and scholars in the US and Africa\, “Nothing Without Us: The Women who Will End AIDS” reveals how women not only shaped grassroots groups like ACT-UP in the U.S.\, but have also played essential roles in HIV prevention and the treatment access movement throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The film explores the unaddressed dynamics that keep women around the world at risk of HIV\, while introducing the remarkable women who have the answers to ending this 30-year old pandemic.\n  \nThe Lesbian Avengers: 25th Anniversary Exhibition is on view at the Bureau through June 4\, 2017. \nWe did it\, and we’ll do it again! A multimedia activist exhibit celebrating the Lesbian Avengers\, formed 25 years ago during another surge of hardcore misogyny\, and anti-gay\, white Nationalist hate. Includes still photos\, flyers\, posters\, slide shows\, and video. Were you there? We welcome your participation. This mobile exhibit won’t take on its final form until late April. In June\, it will begin to pop up all over the country. Including a neighborhood near you! \n  \nRelated upcoming event: \nFriday\, June 2 7 p.m. Lesbian Avengers 25 event series\, “Resist\, Rebel\, Transgress” in co-operation with Lambda Literary. Includes Lesbian Avengers and writers\, Susana Cook\, Ana Simo (co-founder)\, and others. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/resist-rebel-transgress-nothing-without-us-screening/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170511T190000
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SUMMARY:Get Healthy: improving LGBT health through film
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe 2015 short film\, Vanessa Goes to the Doctor\, turned LGBT cultural competence training on its head\, changing the way healthcare providers understand and treat their LGBT patients all in 8 entertaining minutes. Please come to a special screening of Vanessa and a fundraising kickoff for the production of three more films for this important and potentially life-saving film series.\nMeet the filmmakers who will talk about why they used this approach and learn about what they plan to do in continuing this series.\n \nReception 7 PM \nScreening 7:30 PM \n  \nliz margolies\, LCSW is the founder and executive director of the National LGBT Cancer Network. She produced this video\, along with filmsfornonprofits.org\, as part of a larger cultural competence training curriculum for health and human services providers\, presenting it at hospitals\, organizations and conferences across the country. In 2014\, liz was chosen as one of the OUT100 for her work. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/get-healthy-improving-lgbt-health-through-film/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170510T190000
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SUMMARY:Undercover Girl: The Lesbian Informant Who Helped the FBI Bring Down the Communist Party
DESCRIPTION: \nJoin us for the launch of Undercover Girl: The Lesbian Informant Who Helped the FBI Bring Down the Communist Party\, by Lisa E. Davis.\n  \nThis is not the story of a bad lesbian. This is the story of a bad system and a terrible moment in American history we call “the McCarthy era.” The American Left never recovered. Our focus is Angela Calomiris (1916-95)\, a Village photographer well paid by the FBI to spy on the New York Photo League and the American Communist Party (1942-49). We know about her because she broke her cover to testify at the first Smith Act trial (1949) of the Party leadership accused of “conspiracy to advocate the overthrow of the US gov’t by force and violence.” They went to prison while Angela became a Red Scare celebrity with a (ghost-written) book about her patriotic service\, then tried to get a big-time job in photography out of the FBI. She later retreated to Provincetown where she owned several properties–Angel’s Landing was one–and kept her previous career as an informant a deep\, dark secret. A selection of vintage photos accompanies this presentation.\n \nLisa E Davis has lived in Greenwich Village for many years. Her latest book is “Undercover Girl: The Lesbian FBI Informant Who Helped the FBI Bring Down the Communist Party.” Her novel “Under the Mink\,” a film noir tale of gay and lesbian entertainers in mob-owned Village nightclubs of the 1940s\, was re-issued in 2015\, and has been optioned for a TV series/film. With a PhD in Comparative Literature\, Davis taught for years in SUNY and CUNY\, published numerous essays\, and lectured widely on New World and European literary topics. High points in her career include meeting Fidel Castro and almost drowning in the Colorado River.\n  \n  \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/undercover-girl-the-lesbian-informant-who-helped-the-fbi-bring-down-the-communist-party/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170506T190000
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SUMMARY:Dandy Darkly's Six Hundred and Sixty-Six Tales of Sex and Death! A Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:  \nNYC’s maestro of the macabre is dragging his tawdry tales of sex and death from the stage and on to the page. Dandy Darkly will be on hand at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division to sell some books\, sign some books and do a selected reading of tales from his brand new book\, and to kick off his upcoming USA tour. \nDandy Darkly’s Six Hundred and Sixty-Six Tales of Sex and Death! (Volume One) is a collection of short stories from Dandy’s critically acclaimed\, queer storytelling shows. The book also features illustrations by Dandy Darkly. The shindig kicks off at 7pm with a reading of Dandy’s favorite tales at 8pm. \n  \nDandy Darkly lives in Brooklyn\, New York with his husband and cats. “The Homer of the 21st century” (Washington Square News)\, Dandy is an emergent queer performance artist and cabaret storyteller. He has performed internationally at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe\, the London Horror Festival and the historic Royal Vauxhall Tavern. The East Village is Dandy’s playground\, with annual shows at Under St. Marks\, the Queerly Festival and Dixon Place. His critically acclaimed work has been described as “fantastical fairytale horror\, equal parts Tennessee Williams\, Edgar Allen Poe and Bruce La Bruce” (Time Out) and “a cross between Pam Ayres\, Liberace and Tales from the Crypt.” (The Scotsman). This “decidedly wicked storyteller” (New York Times) is “simply one of the most thoughtful\, hilarious and harrowing queer talents at work today.” (Scotsgay Magazine). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/dandy-darklys-six-hundred-and-sixty-six-tales-of-sex-and-death-a-book-launch/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170505T190000
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SUMMARY:David Pratt's Wallaçonia\, Reading & Signing with guest Don Weise
DESCRIPTION:  \nDavid Pratt reads from his new young adult novel\, Wallaçonia. Following the reading\, independent editor Don Weise will join Pratt in a discussion of the process of writing and editing queer young adult novels. \nCopies of Wallaçonia will be available for purchase at the event.\nTo reserve a copy of Wallaçonia\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. \n  \n \nDavid Pratt is the author of the novels Bob the Book (Lambda Literary Award winner) and Looking After Joey. His short stories are collected in the volume My Movie. He has performed worked for the stage in New York City at HERE\, Dixon Place\, the Cornelia Street Cafe and in the New York International Fringe Festival. He lives in Michigan. \n \n  \nDon Weise has more than twenty years publishing experience\, the majority of which has been devoted to LGBT literature. Don was named by Publishers Weekly as an industry “Change Maker” and listed among Out Magazine’s “100 Most Intriguing Gay Men and Lesbians” of the year. Weise is currently the founder/publisher of the LGBT press Querelle Books.\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/david-pratts-wallaconia-reading-signing-with-guest-don-weise/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170504T190000
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SUMMARY:Transgender Children & Youth\, Book Launch & Talk\, with Elijah Nealy
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us to celebrate the publication of Transgender Children & Youth: Cultivating Pride and Joy with Families (W. W. Norton\, 2017)\, by Elijah C. Nealy.\n \nDr. Nealy\, a therapist and former deputy executive director of New York City’s LGBT Community Center\, and himself a trans man\, has written the first-ever comprehensive guide to understanding\, supporting\, and welcoming trans kids. Covering everything from family life to school and mental health issues\, as well as the physical\, social\, and emotional aspects of transition\, this book is full of best practices to support trans kids.\n \nThe reception begins at 7\, with a talk by Dr. Nealy at 7:30pm\, followed by a Q&A. Copies of the book will be available for sale.\n  \nElijah C. Nealy\, PhD\, M.Div.\, LCSW has worked extensively with LGBTQ adolescents and adults in both pastoral and social service capacities for the past 25 years. Dr. Nealy taught fulltime at Columbia School of Social Work\, currently is assistant professor of social work at the University of Saint Joseph\, West Hartford\, and for 12 years served the LGBT Community Center in New York City\, initially as Director of their adolescent and adult mental health programs and then as Deputy Director. His clinical practice has focused on transgender and gender diverse youth and their families. An openly identified transgender man\, Dr. Nealy lives in West Hartford with his partner and is the proud father of three amazing young people.\n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/transgender-children-youth-book-launch-talk-with-elijah-nealy/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170430T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170430T170000
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SUMMARY:Anti-Fascist Book Club
DESCRIPTION:  \nA reading group for those fighting fascism! We will begin with Hannah Arendt and James Baldwin and expand from there. Hopefully our readings will inspire thoughtful and informed activism.\n \nFor the first meeting we will be discussing the first 100 pages of Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (available at the Bureau—please support the Bureau by purchasing your copy from us. Thank you!) \n  \nQuestions? Write to Grey Vild: greyvild@gmail.com \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/anti-fascist-book-club/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170429T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170429T210000
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SUMMARY:EOAGH Spring 2017 Launch!
DESCRIPTION:  \nEOAGH Spring 2017 Launch! \nFeaturing: Abigail Child\, Kenyatta JP Garcia\, Phoenix Nastasha Russell\, Kerry Downey\, Jay Lucero\, Pazia Miller\, and Isabelle Shallcross. \nHosted by Trace Peterson at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division \nSaturday\, April 29 at 7-9 PM\, \nAbigail Child is a media artist and writer who pushes the envelope of sound-image-text relations with humor\, liveliness and complex “plangent\, friable\, nacreous\, lambent\, sinewy…and syncopated” montage. An award-winning filmmaker\, Child is the author of six books of poetry\, among them\, A Motive for Mayhem\, Scatter Matrix and her most recent MOUTH TO MOUTH\, as well as a book of criticism\, THIS IS CALLED MOVING: A Critical Poetics of Film (2005) from University of Alabama Press. \nKenyatta JP Garcia is the author of Slow Living (West Vine Press) and This Sentimental Education. They were raised in Brooklyn but currently live in Albany\, NY. They spend their nights being paid to put boxes on shelves while their days are dedicated to dreaming. \nPhoenix Nastasha Russell is an accomplished poet. Several of her poems have been published in art books like “Rivers of Emotion” and on websites like Poetry.com. She has performed her art work of words in all sorts of venues and has gotten the highest of acclaims. Nastasha’s art oft times incites gut wrenching laughter and at other times intense contemplation as she fires of verse after verse of spellbinding lexis. When she orates her art you can tell that she is truly in her element. Nastasha will entice you and delight you\, just like her namesake she’s like a Phoenix taking flight on wings of searing light….her words will never disappoint cause you’ll know and feel just where she’s coming from. \nKerry Downey (born Fort Lauderdale\, 1979) is an interdisciplinary artist\, writer\, and teacher. Downey’s work explores how we interact with each other physically\, psychologically\, and socio-politically. Encompassing video\, works on paper\, writing\, and performance\, their work reimagines the possibilities and limitations of language\, gender and intimacy. Their work has recently been exhibited at the Queens Museum\, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions\, the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College\, the Drawing Center\, and Taylor Macklin. In 2015\, Downey was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. They hold a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Hunter College. \nJay Lucero aka Silverfemme is a senior at Hunter College. They were awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Award from Queensborough Community College. Jay is a poet\, actor\, and activist born and raised in NYC. They are a magical brown oddity that embodies no and all genders. Instagram: @silverfemme. \nPazia Miller is a queer poet and public school teacher living in Brooklyn. She is currently working on two different poetry collections\, one of which is a long form confessional poem in blank verse. Her poetry lives in small corners of the internet and can be found on The Bridge. \nIsabelle Shallcross (she/her) writes poems about the South\, nature\, and being a sad and problematic person under capitalism. Her favorite writers include Chris Kraus\, Ross Gay\, and Mira Gonzalez. She has received a scholarship to study poetry at the Bread Loaf School of English and is originally from Alabama. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/eoagh-spring-2017-launch/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170427T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170427T210000
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SUMMARY:Vexilloids: a Protest Flag Workshop with LACTIC Incorporated\, with support from Queer Threads
DESCRIPTION: \nJoin Randi Shandroski and Ickarus of LACTIC Incorporated at the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division on Thursday\, April 27th from 6 ‘til 9PM for a workshop presenting the history of vexilloids which will conclude with the participants’ creation of their own.\n \nPresented in collaboration with John Chaich\, curator of the Queer Threads book and exhibition\, in light of current events\, LGBTQ Pride Month\, and the March on Washington in June.\n \nTextiles and materials will be provided although participants are strongly encouraged to bring some of their own fabrics. No prior sewing experience needed although highly recommended. \n \nPLEASE NOTE:\nThis event is limited to 15 participants. Please RSVP via ickarus@lacticincorporated.com.\n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/vexilloids-a-protest-flag-workshop-with-lactic-incorporated-with-support-from-queer-threads/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170426T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170426T210000
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SUMMARY:The Publishing Triangle Finalists Reading
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin eight of the best LGBT writers of 2016 on Wednesday\, April 26\, at 7 PM\, at the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division as they read from their work\, all of which are finalists for the prestigious Publishing Triangle and Ferro-Grumley awards to be announced on Thursday\, April 27\, at the Publishing Triangle Awards Ceremony & Reception\, at The Auditorium of the New School\, 66 West 12th street (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues). \n  \nFeaturing: \nKathy Anderson: Bull and Other Stories (Autumn House Press)\, Finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction \nLucy Jane Bledsoe: A Thin Bright Line (University of Wisconsin Press)\, Finalist for The Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction \nElizabeth M. Edman:  Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity (Beacon Press)\, Finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction \nMatthew Griffin: Hide (Bloomsbury USA)\, Finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction \nAlan Lessik: The Troubleseeker (Chelsea Station Editions)\, Finalist for The Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction \nPaul Lisicky\, The Narrow Door (Graywolf Press); finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction \nJoe Okonkwo: Jazz Moon (Kensington)\, Finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction \nWill Schwalbe: Books for Living (Alfred A. Knopf)\, Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction \n  \n \n  \n \nKathy Anderson is the author of Bull and Other Stories (Autumn House Press\, 2016)\, winner of the 2015 Autumn House Press Fiction Prize. In addition to being a finalist for the 2016 Publishing Triangle’s Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction\, Bull and Other Stories was a finalist for the 2016 Lambda Literary Awards and the 2016 Foreword INDIES Awards and was longlisted for The Story Prize\, 2016. She is also a playwright and member of the Dramatists Guild. She lives with her wife in Philadelphia\, PA. \n  \n  \n\n \n\n \nLucy Jane Bledsoe‘s new novel\, A Thin Bright Line\, was just released. She’s the author of a collection of short stories\, a collection of narrative nonfiction\, and four novels\, including The Big Bang Symphony. Her recent short story\, “The We of Me\,” published in The Rumpus\, was chosen by Ploughshares Magazine as the best story published in lit mags that week. \nHer fiction has won a Yaddo Fellowship\, the 2013 Saturday Evening Post Fiction Award\, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize\, the Sherwood Anderson Prize for Fiction\, a Pushcart nomination\, a California Arts Council Fellowship\, an American Library Association Stonewall Award\, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships. Her stories have been translated into Japanese\, Spanish\, German\, Dutch\, and Chinese. \nLucy loves teaching workshops\, cooking\, traveling anywhere\, basketball\, doing anything outside\, and telling stories. She’s traveled to Antarctica three times\, as a two-time recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Artists & Writers in Antarctica Fellowship and once as a guest on the Russian ship\, the Akademik Sergey Vavilov. She is one of a tiny handful of people who have stayed at all three American stations in Antarctica. She has also stayed in a number of field camps\, both on the coast and in the Transantarctic mountains\, where scientists are studying penguins\, climate change\, and the Big Bang. \n  \n  \n \n  \nPhotograph by Keryn Lowry\n \nLiz Edman is an Episcopal priest and political strategist.  She is the author of Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity (Beacon Press\, 2016).  Liz has lived and worked on the front lines of the most salient contemporary issues where religion meets sexuality\, serving as an inner city hospital chaplain to people with HIV/AIDS from 1989 to 1995 and helping craft political and communications strategies for marriage equality efforts.  In 2017\, she partnered with Parity to create Glitter+Ash Wednesday\, a project to increase the visibility of progressive\, queer-positive Christians and to explore Christian liturgical tradition through a queer lens.   She lives in New York. \n  \n  \n \n  \n\n \nMatthew Griffin is a graduate of Wake Forest University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has taught writing at the University of Iowa and University of Louisiana at Lafayette\, and he worked for several years as Assistant to the Director of Highlander Research and Education Center\, a renowned hub of grassroots organizing for social justice throughout the South and Appalachia. His first novel Hide was the winner of the 2017 Crook’s Corner Book Prize\, a Stonewall Honor Book\, and longlisted for the PEN/Bingham Prize for debut fiction. His writing has appeared in The Guardian\, Granta\, Electric Literature\, and elsewhere. He was born and raised in North Carolina and now lives with his husband and too many pets in New Orleans\, Louisiana\, where he teaches at Tulane University. \n  \n  \n \n  \n\n \nAlan Lessik is a novelist and writer\, zen practitioner\, amateur figure skater\, and LGBT activist\, non-profit leader and world traveler. His debut novel\, The Troubleseeker\, was published by Chelsea Station Editions in 2016. He has had non-fiction articles and commentaries published in the Advocate\, San Francisco Bay Guardian\, andFrontiers as well as recorded as part of KQED Radio Perspectives. He was the co-founder of Out & Equal\, the Deputy Director of the AIDS Research Institute at UCSF and Treasurer of the Federation of Gay Games. Currently he is the Executive Director of Civicorps. Alan lives in San Francisco. \n  \n  \n\n \nPhoto by Star Black\n \nPaul Lisicky is the author of five books: The Narrow Door (a New York Times Editors’ Choice)\, Unbuilt Projects\, The Burning House\, Famous Builder\, and Lawnboy. His work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Conjunctions\, Fence\, The New York Times\, The Offing\, Ploughshares\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, among others. He is an associate professor in the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden and lives in Brooklyn.\n \n \n\n \n\n \nJoe Okonkwo is a Pushcart Prize nominee who has had stories published in a variety of print and online venues including Promethean\, Penumbra Literary Magazine\, Chelsea Station\, Shotgun Honey\, and Best Gay Stories 2015. In addition to his writing career\, he has worked in theater as an actor\, stage manager\, director\, playwright and youth theatre instructor. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing from City College of New York. Jazz Moon is his debut novel.\n \n \n\n \n\n \nWill Schwalbe has worked in publishing (now with Macmillan); digital media\, as the founder and CEO of Cookstr.com; and as a journalist\, writing for various publications\, including The New York Times and the South China Morning Post. He is the author of the New York Times best seller The End of Your Life Book Club and coauthor\, with David Shipley\, of Send: Why People Email So Badly and How to Do It Better. His most recent book\, Books for Living\, is a memoir about the books that found him when he needed them most. \n  \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/the-publishing-triangle-finalists-reading/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170425T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170425T213000
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SUMMARY:Union Square Slam Presents: Kate & Izzi!
DESCRIPTION:  \n*Mark your calendars: the last Tuesday of every month will feature a local musical performer.* \nTonight\, we are beyond excited to bring you the entrancing sounds of this sister duet!\nAbout our Show: \n7:30pm: Sign-ups and Socialize\n8:00pm: Open Mic (Music + Poetry Are Welcomed Here!)\n8:45pm: KATE & IZZI \nAll Ages // Wheelchair Accessible\nOpen Mic // Suggested $5-10 donation\nAbout our Feature: \nKate & Izzi are sisters making music. We grew up in DC\, went to school in New York\, lived in Berlin and taught music in a refugee camp. Now we’re creating original music in our basement. Kate & Izzi will be releasing our first EP this summer. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/union-square-slam-presents-kate-izzi/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170421T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170421T210000
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SUMMARY:Resist\, Rebel\, Transgress: Sarah Schulman & Carmen Machado
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn conjunction with the Bureau’s current exhibition\, The Lesbian Avengers: 25th Anniversary Exhibition: \n“Resist\, Rebel\, Transgress” in co-operation with Lambda Literary. Reading from their work: Avenger co-founder and writer Sarah Schulman\, and writer Carmen Machado. \nSuggested donation of $5 to $10 to benefit both the traveling exhibition The Lesbian Avengers: 25th Anniversary Exhibition and the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n  \nCarmen Maria Machado’s debut short story collection\, Her Body and Other Parties\, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in The New Yorker\, Granta\, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy\, Best Horror of the Year\, and Best Women’s Erotica. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is the Artist in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.\n \nSarah Schulman is the author of 18 books\, most recently the novel THE COSMOPOLITANS\, selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the top 20 American novels of 2016\, and CONFLICT IS NOT ABUSE\, which bell hooks called “awesome brilliant.” Sarah is on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace\, faculty advisor to Students for Justice in Palestine\, and on the advisory board of Claudia Rankine’s Racial Imaginary Institute. She is currently writing the book to a musical based on the songs of Joan Armatrading.\n  \n  \nThe Lesbian Avengers: 25th Anniversary Exhibition is on view at the Bureau through June 4\, 2017. \nWe did it\, and we’ll do it again! A multimedia activist exhibit celebrating the Lesbian Avengers\, formed 25 years ago during another surge of hardcore misogyny\, and anti-gay\, white Nationalist hate. Includes still photos\, flyers\, posters\, slide shows\, and video. Were you there? We welcome your participation. This mobile exhibit won’t take on its final form until late April. In June\, it will begin to pop up all over the country. Including a neighborhood near you!\n \nRelated upcoming events:\n \nFriday\, May 12 7 p.m. Lesbian Avengers 25 event series\, “Resist\, Rebel\, Transgress.” A screening of the powerful film\, Nothing Without Us\, by Harriet Hirshorn and Mary Patierno about women fighting AIDS worldwide. \nNothing Without Us is the first and only documentary telling the story of the inspiring women at the forefront of the global AIDS movement. Combining archival footage and interviews with female activists\, scientists and scholars in the US and Africa\, Nothing Without Us: The Women who Will End AIDS reveals how women not only shaped grassroots groups like ACT-UP in the U.S.\, but have also played essential roles in HIV prevention and the treatment access movement throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The film explores the unaddressed dynamics that keep women around the world at risk of HIV\, while introducing the remarkable women who have the answers to ending this 30-year old pandemic.\n \nFriday\, June 2 7 p.m. Lesbian Avengers 25 event series\, “Resist\, Rebel\, Transgress” in co-operation with Lambda Literary. Includes Lesbian Avengers and writers\, Susana Cook\, Ana Simo (co-founder)\, and others. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/resist-rebel-transgress-sarah-schulman-carmen-machado/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170420T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170420T213000
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SUMMARY:Open Love New York Poly Movie Night: Carrington
DESCRIPTION:  \nOpen Love NY presents Poly Movie Night\, a FREE series of feature films that focus on the portrayal of consensual / ethical non-monogamy in cinema. This month we’ll be meeting at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division which is located on the second floor of The LGBT Center\, Room 210. \nPlease join us for Carrington (1995)\, directed by Christopher Hampton and starring Emma Thompson (Harry Potter) and Jonathan Pryce (Game of Thrones). \nWe’ll meet at 6:30 pm at the Bureau for pre-screening socializing and start the movie at 7 pm. The more people come\, the more likely we’ll continue the event! The event is free\, although a $10 suggested donation to help fund future events is much appreciated. \nSynopsis: “Who on earth is that ravishing boy?” asks writer Lytton Strachey when he first sees Carrington. Despite his initial disappointment that Carrington is not a boy\, he becomes very fond of her while she falls in love with him. The film is based on the lives of the early twentieth-century painter Dora Carrington and gay Bloomsbury writer Lytton Strachey. Running time: 2 hours. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/olny-poly-movie-night-carrington/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170418T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170418T213000
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SUMMARY:Union Square Slam presents Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib and Team Selection Finals!
DESCRIPTION:  \n!! TIME !! FOR !! TEAM !! SELECTION !! FINALS !!\n \nfeaturing\nHANIF WILLIS-ABDURRAQIB\n \nARE YOU READY FOR POEMS?!\n \n6:30pm: Writing Workshop by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib\n7:45pm: Slam\, First Round\n8:30pm: Feature: Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib\n9:00pm: Slam\, Second Round\n \nWriting Workshop\, by donation/pass-the-bag\nFeature/Slam: suggested $7-$10\, collected at door\n \n* * * We’ll also be selling limited edition copies of Union Square Slam’s Inaugural Year Team Slam Chapbook — all proceeds go to getting the team to Nationals this year ♥ * * *\nBureau of General Services – Queer Division\n(inside the LGBT Center)\n \n208 W 13th St.\, #210 (btw 7th and 8th Ave) \nAll Ages // Wheelchair Accessible\nAbout our Feature:\n \nHanif Willis-Abdurraqib is a poet\, essayist\, and cultural critic from Columbus\, Ohio. His first collection of poems\, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much\, was released by Button Poetry in 2016. His first collection of essays\, They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us\, is forthcoming from Two Dollar Radio in winter 2017. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/uss-presents-hanif-willis-abdurraqib-and-team-selection-finals/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170415T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170415T213000
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SUMMARY:TELL 33: Betrayal
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. \nBETRAYAL is the theme of the thirty-third installment of TELL. Featuring Erica Caldwell\, Amalia Q\, Persephone Sarah Jane Smith\, and Pamela Sneed. \n  \n$10 suggested donation – 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 \nErica Cardwell is a writer and radical educator. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Hyperallergic\, Sinister Wisdom\, the Lightwork Annual\, The Feminist Wire\, Bitch Media\, and EMERGE: An Anthology of the 2105 Lambda Literary Fellows. Erica hopes to complete a draft of her first book\, Stone Fruit- a collection of personal essays by December. \n  \n  \n \nAmalia Q is a latinx queer unicorn from LA. As the daughter of immigrant parents\, the pull to overachieve and give back was immense; therefore\, as of late\, Amalia had been trying to practice self-care by slowing down and hanging out with tiny humans (aka kids). Amalia holds masters degrees from all the schools and knows a whole lot about microaggressions\, substance use\, and mental health. You can find Amalia on a dance floor near you! \n \n  \n \nPersephone Sarah Jane Smith (They/Them/Theirs)\nA singer songwriter and poet that lives in Bushwick with far too many hobbies to list. Thier Latest endeavor is running for City Council in their District. Greatest skill though is telling Humorous stories from their tragic life. \n \n  \n \nPamela Sneed is a New York based poet\, writer and actress. She has been featured in the New York Times Magazine\, The New Yorker\, Time Out\, Bomb\, VIBE\, and on the cover of New York Magazine. In 2015\, she appeared in Art Forum\, Black Book and The Huffington Post. She hosted Queer Art Film at the IFC in New York City. She is author of Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery\, published by Henry Holt in April 1998\, KONG & other works\, published by Vintage Entity Press (2009) and a chapbook Lincoln (2014). In 2015\, she published the Chaplet Gift with Belladonna. She has performed for sold out houses at Lincoln Center\, P.S. 122\, Ex-Teresa in Mexico City\, The ICA London\, The CCA in Glasgow Scotland\, The Green Room in Manchester England\, BAM Cafe\, Joes Pub\, The Public Theater\, Central Park Summer Stage\, Bronx Summer Stage and recently Columbia University’s Tribute to James Baldwin\, The Whitney Museum and BRIC. She appears in Nikki Giovanni’s\, The One Hundred Best African American Poems. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence as a guest faculty member and is an online Professor at Chicago’s School of the Art Institute teaching Human Rights and Writing Art. She was a mentor/consultant for the poet-Linc program at Lincoln Center and directed a final show at Lincoln Center Atrium in 2016. She has recently presented at a symposium at NYU on Humor\, Politics and the AIDs crisis. In summer 2016\, she has received a residency at Denniston Hill and is an SAIC visiting artist in the MFA low residency program. She is completing a collection of short stories “Anna Mae/For Black Women Survivors\,” and has a forthcoming chapbook Sweet Dreams with Belladonna2017. \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-33-betrayal/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170413T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170413T210000
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SUMMARY:Author Readings and Discussion with Stefani Deoul & Ann Aptaker
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us as Stefani Deoul reads from and discusses her crazyfunkycool new YA novel\, On a LARP\, which features the fresh and feisty bit-bending teen heroine\, Sid Rubin. As an added attraction\, Lammy-winning historical criminal fiction writer\, Ann Aptaker will take the stage to talk about and share a reading from Genuine Gold\, Book Three of the popular Cantor Gold Crime Series. \nPlease support the authors and the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and purchase copies of On a LARP\, Criminal Gold\, Tarnished Gold\, and Genuine Gold at the Bureau! \nWe look forward to seeing you there!\n \nSTEFANI DEOUL is the author of the award-winning novel The Carousel and the newly released YA novel On a LARP. She has written for numerous publications\, including Curve Magazine\, Outdoor Delaware and Letters from CAMP Rehoboth\, penned short stories\, and written both film and television treatments. As a television producer her resume includes TV series such as Haven for the SyFy Network\, The Dead Zone\, Brave New Girl\, Dresden Files and Missing.\n \nLambda Literary Award winner and native New Yorker ANN APTAKER has earned a reputation as a respected\, if cheeky\, exhibition designer and curator of art during her career in museums and galleries. Taking the approach that what art authorities find uncomfortable the public would likely enjoy\, exhibitions Ann has curated have garnered favorable reviews in the New York Times\, Art in America\, American Art Review\, and other publications. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/author-readings-and-discussion-with-stefani-deoul-ann-aptaker/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170411T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170411T213000
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SUMMARY:Great Weather for Union Square Slam
DESCRIPTION:  \nGreat weather for media has a brand new anthology called “The Careless Embrace of the Boneshaker.” We are excited to bring you some of the poets from this anthology to our stage.\n \nHere are the poets:\n \nTaylor Steele\nLiv Mammone\nCraig Kite\nBrendan James Gillett\n \nFounded in January 2012 by former Uphook Press editors Jane Ormerod\, Thomas Fucaloro\, and Brant Lyon\, great weather for MEDIA focuses on the unpredictable\, the fearless\, the bright\, the dark\, and the innovative…\n \nThey are based in New York City and showcase both national and international writers. As well as publishing the highest quality poetry and prose\, they organize numerous readings\, performances\, and book releases in New York City and across the country. Find them every Sunday on the Lower East Side at the Parkside Lounge\, 317 East Houston St\, for their reading series\, great weather presents Spoken Word Sundays. Featured readers and a poetry open mic\, 4:00 – 6:00 pm. They’d love to see you! This is a terrific New York City poetry open mic. \n  \n6:30pm Writing Workshop w/ IS Jones\n7:30pm Sign-ups and Socialize\n8:00pm Open Mic \nAll Ages // Wheelchair Accessible\nSuggested Donation: $5-$10 \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/great-weather-for-union-square-slam/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170408T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170408T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140352
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SUMMARY:2017 NYC Queer Comic Fair
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nWabiSabiZinez and Carmine Street Comics are proud to present the first (hopefully) annual New York City fair geared entirely towards queer sequential art (comics\, graphic novels\, illustrated stories\, photo-comics\, or any other interesting take on the medium of still-visual narrative storytelling).\n\n  \nThe fair is free and open to the public\, thanks to our hosts\, the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, located on the second floor of The LGBT Center NYC\, 208 W 13th St.\, room 210.\n\n  \nVendors include:\n  \nWabiSabiZines: WabiSabiZineZ.Storenvy.Com / @Wabi_Sabi_Zinez\nCarmine Street Comics: carminestreetcomics.com / @CarmineStComics\nBearpad: bearpadshop.storenvy.com / @bearpadshop\nTim Bauer: cargocollective.com/tbauerillustration\nDoable Guys: doableguys.tumblr.com/\nEasy: easythecomic.com\nGreg Fox / Kyle’s Bed & Breakfast: Kylecomics.com\nMikey Hope / Preternatch: preternatch.deviantart.com/gallery/\nComics by Patrick J Reilly: comicsbypatrick.com/\nLucky Sanford: luckysanford.com\nSci-Fi Explosion: twitter.com/scifiexplosion\nSusse Sønderby: unteleported-tomatoes.net / @sussesonderby\nShip Jumper: ShipJumperComic.com\nSquareBears: Instagram.com/squarebears\nStevie Wilson: swinku.tumblr.com\nWoolybearz: woolybearz.tumblr.com / @woolybear\nBill Zanowitz: crimefighterinquiry.com / comicbookbears.com\n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/2017-nyc-queer-comic-fair/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170406T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170406T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140352
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SUMMARY:A Discussion of Umberto Saba's 'Ernesto' with Peter Cameron\, Benjamin Taylor\, Jaime Manrique\, and Stefano Albertini
DESCRIPTION: \nPlease join NYRB Classics in celebrating the publication of Umberto Saba’s Ernesto\, a classic of gay Italian literature available in a new translation by Estelle Gilson. Peter Cameron\, Benjamin Taylor\, Jaime Manrique\, and Stefano Albertini will discuss Saba’s life and work. \n \n \nPeter Cameron is the author of six novels\, including ‘Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You\,’ and two collections of short stories. He lives in New York City and Vermont\, where he runs Shrinking Violet Press\, which publishes limited editions of finely-crafted books. He has written afterwords to many books\, including New York Review of Books’ ‘The Outward Room’ by Millen Brand and ‘Totempole’ by Sanford Friedman.\n \n \nBenjamin Taylor‘s family memoir\, ‘The Hue and Cry at Our House\,’ will be published in May of 2017 by Penguin Books. He is also the author of ‘Proust: The Search\,’ named a Best Book of 2016 by Thomas Mallon in The New York Times Book Review; ‘Naples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay\,’ named a Best Book of 2012 by Judith Thurman in The New Yorker; and of two novels\, ‘Tales Out of School\,’ winner of the Harold Ribalow Prize\, and ‘The Book of Getting Even\,’ winner of a Barnes and Noble Discover Prize. He edited ‘Saul Bellow: Letters\,’ named a Best Book of 2010 by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times and Jonathan Yardley at The Washington Post\, and Bellow’s ‘There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction.’ A faculty member in the New School’s Graduate School of Writing\, Taylor also teaches in the Graduate Writing Division of the School of the Arts at Columbia University. A past fellow and current trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, he is also president of the Edward F. Albee Foundation. ‘Debriefing\,’ his edition of the short fiction of Susan Sontag\, is due from Farrar\, Straus & Giroux in November of 2017.\n \n \nJaime Manrique was born in Colombia. He is a bilingual novelist\, essayist\, translator\, and poet. His novels include ‘Latin Moon in Manhattan\,’ ‘Our Lives Are the Rivers\,’ and ‘Cervantes Street.’ He has been the recipient of a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation\, a winner of Colombia’s National Poetry Award\, and the International Latino Book Award. Mr. Manrique’s work has been translated to twelve languages. He is currently a Distinguished Lecturer in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures at the City College of New York. He has just completed a new novel\, ‘Like This Afternoon Forever.’ \n  \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/a-discussion-of-umberto-sabas-ernesto/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170404T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170404T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140352
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SUMMARY:Union Square Slam presents Timothy DuWhite and our Capturing Fire Qualifier
DESCRIPTION:  \nCome on out for our Very Here\, Very Queer CAPTURING FIRE QUALIFIER\, featuring Capturing Fire’s 2015 Champion and all-around No BullPoop No Fux Giving Poet/Prophet/Pidgeon Whisperer Timothy DuWhite!!\n \n6:30pm Free Writing Workshop with I.S. Jones\n7:30pm Sign-Ups and Socialize\n8:00pm Slam and Feature\n$5 // All Ages // Wheelchair Accessible\n \nCOMPETING POETS: must be self-identified queer to compete! must have three 3 minute poems! must consider registering for Capturing Fire and competing anyway\, regardless of who wins this qualifier!\nAbout our Feature:\n \nTimothy DuWhite is the current Program Manager at New York Writers Coalition\, a non-profit dedicated to providing writing workshops to under-served communities. Prior to his time at NYWC\, Timothy worked as the Program Coordinator at Urban Word NYC\, a champion in youth literacy\, and as the Online Communications Specialist at Believe Out Loud\, an online network invested in bridging the gap between the faith and LGBTQ communities. He received his BA in English/Creative Writing from Montclair State University\, where he developed his love for spoken word poetry and performance. Timothy’s work has been featured at venues/sites such as the United Nations/UNICEF\, Apollo Theater\, Nuyorican Poet’s cafe\, The Rumpus\, Bowery Poetry Club\, La Mama Theater and many more. In 2015\, Timothy developed a writing workshop entitled “HIV & the State: Coalition Building beyond the Condom\,” in which he communally debunks popular narratives surrounding HIV as it relates to black people. Timothy’s political work and analysis has granted him appearances/keynote speeches at institutions such as San Diego State University\, Columbia University\, Oregon State University\, Columbia College Chicago\, and many more. When he isn’t off trying to save the world\, Tim can be found working on his next play\, and listening to 90’s R&B.\nAbout Capturing Fire:\n \nCapturing Fire is a DC-based international spoken word and poetry festival where queer-identified writers gather for 3 days of individual poetry slam competition\, alongside panels\, workshops and performances during the day. The Poetry Slam focus of Capturing Fire will be June 9 and 10 with a series of Queer Arts Events starting Sunday June 4 at The Sparkle Open Mic at Busboys & Poets. We will be holding Capturing Fire during Capital Pride Weekend which culminates with the LGBT March on Sunday June 11\, 2017 at 10am. For more information\, please refer to https://capfireslam.org/ \n  \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/union-square-slam-presents-timothy-duwhite-and-our-capturing-fire-qualifier/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch for Claudia Cortese’s Wasp Queen and Gillian Cummings’ My Dim Aviary
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join us for the launch party of Claudia Cortese’s Wasp Queen and Gillian Cummings’ My Dim Aviary. Gillian and Claudia are press sisters whose books were just published by Black Lawrence Press. \nOcean Vuong says that “Claudia Cortese has given to Lucy what Anne Carson has given to Geryon: a life as desperate and fraught as our own\, which is to say\, a human rendition of the poetic potential. . . . I finished this Wasp Queen only to read it all over again\, finding and losing myself\, gladly\, at every turn. \nD. Nurkse says that My Dim Aviary is a book filled “with the ache of individuation\, the estrangement of sexuality—‘a swan gouging its breast with its bill.’ Searing in its originality\, My Dim Aviary is a masterful conception\, a trance\, a prayer of abandonment.” \nThere will be cupcakes! There will cake! There will be plastic tiaras! There will be purple mood lighting! There will be a most glorious mix playing (Whitney Houston\, Bikini Kill\, Pat Benatar…) \nGrey Vild (bio below) will be emceeing; Claudia and Gillian will read from their gorgeous books; and these brilliant humans will also be reading: \nJayson P. Smith is a writer/performance artist from the Bronx. Their poems & interviews appear / are forthcoming in journals such as Gulf Coast\, Vinyl Magazine\, & The Offing. J is a 2016-17 Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow with The Poetry Project\, & has received previous support from The Conversation Literary Festival & Millay Colony for the Arts. They currently live in Brooklyn and the internet at jaysonpsmith.com. \nKaveh Akbar‘s poems appear recently or soon in The New Yorker\, Poetry\, Ploughshares\, APR\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. His debut full-length collection\, Calling a Wolf a Wolf\, will be published by Alice James Books in September 2017. \nJoanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn\, New York. They are the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press\, 2014)\, The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press\, 2015)\, Marys of the Sea (2016\, ELJ Publications) & Xenos (2016\, Agape Editions). \nGrey Vild is a Queer Art Mentorship & Brooklyn Poets fellow & a MFA candidate in poetry at Rutgers University. His work can be found at Them\, Vetch\, Harriet: The Blog and elsewhere. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/book-launch-for-book-sisters-wasp-queen-and-my-dim-aviary/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170331T180000
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SUMMARY:The Lesbian Avengers: 25th Anniversary Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for the opening reception party for The Lesbian Avengers: 25th Anniversary Exhibition on Friday\, March 31st. We’ll screen clips from the new feature film\, Nothing Without Us\, by Harriet Hirshorn and Mary Patierno. From New York to Nigeria. Burundi to the American South beginning at 7 PM.\n \nThe readings by Eileen Myles and Sassafras Lowrey have been postponed. We’ll keep you posted.\n \nWe did it\, and we’ll do it again! A multimedia activist exhibit celebrating the Lesbian Avengers\, formed 25 years ago during another surge of hardcore misogyny\, and anti-gay\, white Nationalist hate. Includes still photos\, flyers\, posters\, slide shows\, and video. Were you there? We welcome your participation. This mobile exhibit won’t take on its final form until late April. In June\, it will begin to pop up all over the country. Including a neighborhood near you!\n \nAlso exhibited\, images of powerful women fighting AIDS worldwide from the new feature film\, Nothing Without Us\, by Harriet Hirshorn and Mary Patierno. From New York to Nigeria. Burundi to the American South. \n  \nThe Lesbian Avengers: 25th Anniversary Exhibition will be on view at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division from March 31 through June 4\, 2017. \n  \nRelated upcoming events: \nFriday\, April 21 Lesbian Avengers 25 event series\, “Resist\, Rebel\, Transgress” in co-operation with Lambda Literary. Includes Avenger co-founder and writer Sarah Schulman and writer Carmen Machado \nFriday\, May 12 Lesbian Avengers 25 event series\, “Resist\, Rebel\, Transgress” featuring a screening of the powerful film\, Nothing Without Us\, by Harriet Hirshorn and Mary Patierno about women fighting AIDS worldwide. \nFriday\, June 2 Lesbian Avengers 25 event series\, “Resist\, Rebel\, Transgress” in co-operation with Lambda Literary. Includes Lesbian Avengers and writers\, Susana Cook\, Ana Simo (co-founder)\, and others. \nphoto: Carolina Kroon\, Dyke March\, Washington\, DC\, 1993 \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/lesbian-avengers-25th-anniversary-exhibition/
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SUMMARY:Belladonna* WITH Sam Ace & Aristilde Kirby (co-presented by Vetch)
DESCRIPTION:  \nBelladonna* Collaborative & Vetch Magazine present: Sam Ace & Aristilde Kirby will read at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division on March 30\, at 7pm. \nNew chaplets from each reader will be available at the event. \nVetch is the first magazine of its kind\, a journal of poetry solely by trans writers. We aim to publish work that is as excited about being poetry as it is engaged with the social conditions that allow for its production. Say it has an aesthetic and doubles down hard\, wouldn’t that be fun. Belladonna* Collaborative’s programs are supported\, in part\, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. \n  \nSamuel Ace is the author of Normal Sex\, Home in three days. Don’t wash.\, and Stealth (a collaboration with Maureen Seaton). He has received the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund Award\, the Firecracker Alternative Book Award and is a two-time finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Poetry\, Fence\, Posit\, Vinyl\, Troubling the Line: Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics\, Best American Experimental Poetry 2016 and many other publications. www.samuelace.com \n  \nAristilde Kirby is a poet born in the Bronx\, NY\, but currently lives in Carrollton\, GA. She is 25\, a UGA Master Gardener\, was previously published in Vetch (no. 2 & 3). She has a few things in the works\, and hopefully forthcoming. You can just call her Aris\, say her name like Paris without the P or Aeris from FFVII\, but with & without the lisp. She’s a black lesbian in either case. You can find her on twitter @motjustine \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/belladonna/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170328T183000
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SUMMARY:Union Square Slam presents George Abraham's Book Release Party
DESCRIPTION:  \nWe are so thrilled to celebrate George Abraham‘s release of their first book\, al youm! Please join us for a free writing workshop\, a lively open mic\, and George! \n6:30pm Writing Workshop w/ IS Jones\n7:30pm Sign-ups and Socialize\n8:00pm Open Mic \nAll Ages // Wheelchair Accessible\nSuggested Donation: $5-$10 \nPraise for al youm: \n“George Abraham is the poetic love child of Whitman and Darwish\, an exile living in the borderlands of his own Palestinian body. Through these poems–daringly experimental\, explosively confession–he rebuilds himself out of his own erasure. In his words\, ‘your body isn’t a temple–/ your body is the heaven the temples bow to.'” \n– Phil Metres\, author of Sand Opera\, winner of the Arab American Book Award \n“George Abraham’s al youm engages my brain and my heart in ways both relentless and tender. These poems do such exciting things with form—they are simultaneously ancient and futuristic\, considering old hurts and old histories while constantly reimagining what is possible in terms of what a poem can do—visually\, syntactically\, emotionally— on the page. However\, their technical skill comes in no way at the expense of their pulsing\, living heart—these poems hurt\, and bloom\, and I will never\, ever stop thinking about them. ” \n– Safia Elhillo\, author of The January Children \n“George Abraham’s poems are both guide and gift. Here is writing through the body in space and time; through ancestral memory and trauma; here is breath\, soul\, life — in America; in Palestine. Abraham’s poems arrive as ingenious and necessary solutions to equations we don’t yet know we need. This book is how we heal.” \n– Marwa Helal\, author of Invasive Species (forthcoming with Nightboat Books)\n \nAbout the Author: \nGeorge Abraham is a Palestinian-American poet attending Swarthmore College. They competed in the College Union Poetry Slam Invitational (placing 2nd out of 68 international teams)\, the National Poetry Slam\, and the Individual World Poetry Slam. They are a Pushcart nominee\, a 2-time recipient of the Favianna Rodriguez Award for Artistic Activism\, and a recipient of the Ghassan Kanafani Palestinian Literature Scholarship. They are the author of al youm: for yesterday & her inherited traumas – a winner of the Atlas Review’s 2016 chapbook contest. Their poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Diode\, Kweli\, the Margins\, Thrush\, Apogee\, and Sukoon\, as well as the Ghassan Kanafani Anthology of Palestinian Literature. They hope to continue bringing awareness to Palestinian human rights and socio-economic struggles through art.\nMore work and contact info can be found at his artist website: https://gabrahampoet.wixsite.com/gabrahampoet \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/union-square-slam-presents-george-abrahams-book-release-party/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170326T180000
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SUMMARY:Nonprofits\, Foundations\, and Resisting the Savior Mentality
DESCRIPTION: \nWhat is the role of wealth and privilege in social movements\, and how can we change it? A conversation on foundations\, nonprofits\, capitalism and social change with scholar and organizer Sujani Reddy and journalist and organizer Jordan Flaherty\, featuring poetry by Sabina Ibarrola.\n \n  \nSujani Reddy is a writer and educator whose work focuses on U.S. imperialism\, mass criminalization and migrant justice. She is Associate Professor of American Studies at SUNY Old Westbury\, the author of Nursing and Empire: Gendered Labor and Migration from India to the United States (UNC Press)\, and a co-editor of The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power (NYU Press). Both books are also published by Orient BlackSwan in South Asia. You can hear her discuss the history of nursing and empire at: https://whomakescentspodcast.com/2016/06/02/episode-22-sujani-reddy-on-nursing-and-empire.\n \n  \nSabina Ibarrola is a green witch and herbalist in the Wisewoman tradition. Drawing on her training in herbal medicine and earthspirit wisdom\, Sabina is building her teaching and clinical practice\, combining a passion for plants and plant medicine with a fierce dedication to collective liberation and helping people love their beautifully diverse bodies. Sabina also works at LAVA Brooklyn\, and is associate creative director of Heels on Wheels Glitter Roadshow. She lives in Brooklyn\, NY. sabinaibarrola.com.\n \n  \nJordan Flaherty is an award-winning journalist\, producer\, and author. His print journalism has been featured in publications from the New York Times to Colorlines\, as well as in seven anthologies. He has been a guest on shows from Anderson Cooper 360 to Democracy Now\, and he has produced television documentaries and news reports for Al Jazeera America\, Al Jazeera English\, and The Laura Flanders Show. He was the first journalist to bring the case of the Jena Six to a national audience\, he played himself on HBO’s television series Treme\, and he was a target of the New York City Police Department’s spying programs. He is the author of the new book No More Heroes: Grassroots Responses to the Savior Mentality. You can see more of his work at jordanflaherty.org.\n \n  \nMORE ABOUT NURSING AND EMPIRE:\nHow is nursing tied to histories of capitalist imperialism in India and the United States? How was its professionalization shaped through the institutionalization of gender\, race\, class\, caste\, sexuality\, regional and religious hierarchies? How does this process relate to the fundamental role that the institutions promoting a “savior mentality” have played in establishing a colonial “civilizing mission” at home and abroad? How do we find the stories of  marginalized women workers in the archives?  What happens when we ask Indian nurses about their own life stories? Spanning two centuries and multiple geographic spaces\, Nursing & Empire pursues these questions in order to shed light on histories of capitalist expansion\, and marginalized women’s histories of resistance and labor migration.”In this beautifully written and brilliantly argued book\, Sujani Reddy demonstrates the urgency of understanding Indian nurse migration to the United States in relation to the many reconfigurations of ‘Anglo-American capitalist imperialism’ over two centuries. This is an indispensable and groundbreaking contribution to the history of women and labor migration\, and it sets a new standard for the global study of imperialism\, capitalism\, and race.”–Jennifer Guglielmo\, author of Living the Revolution: Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York City“Sujani Reddy neatly traces the development of modern racialized nursing practices by going beyond simply analyzing migration to examining the historical emergence of nursing in India and the United States. Nursing and Empire explores labor markets\, intimate industries\, and gender with a writing style that is simultaneously deeply analytical and richly descriptive. An absolutely exciting and one-of-a-kind book.”–Sharmila Rudrappa\, author of Discounted Life: The Price of Global Surrogacy in India\n \n \nMORE ABOUT NO MORE HEROES:\nFrom the Crusades to Black Lives Matter\, No More Heroes is a grassroots history of resistance to the savior mentality. This book weaves the stories of LGBTQ organizers\, teachers\, international volunteers\, sex workers\, FBI informants\, indigenous organizers\, and prison abolitionists into a narrative of revolutionary change that travels from Alaska to Palestine\, from Karl Marx to Muhammad Ali\, and from KONY 2012 to the Red Cross.No More Heroes brings us real life stories of life-or-death conflict: Riad Hamad\, a Lebanese middle school teacher in Texas betrayed by FBI informant Brandon Darby. Monica Jones\, a Black transgender sex work activist arrested for “walking while trans” in Phoenix\, Arizona. Haidar Eid\, a professor resisting colonialism and liberalism in his daily life and work in Gaza City. Sophie Lucido Johnson\, a recent college graduate who finds her youthful idealism channeled by others to displace unionized African American teachers in New Orleans.\n \nNo More Heroes explores the growing response to these dynamics: grassroots and street-based uprisings like the Arab Spring\, Occupy Wall Street\, and Black Lives Matter\, creating accountable movements focused on real\, systemic change.\n \n“No More Heroes exposes the savior complex for what it really is: imperialism camouflaged as a rescue operation. A perfect gift for the age of Trump.”\n-Robin D. G. Kelley\, Author\, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination\n \n“From systemic racism to climate change\, there are no easy fixes to the deep- rooted crises of our time. In this marvelous\, enormously instructive book\, Jordan Flaherty explores how we too often allow the struggle for change to be undermined by would-be saviors—and how today’s grassroots social movements\, led by communities on the frontlines of crisis\, are charting a far more powerful path forward.”\n– Naomi Klein\, Author\, This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine\n \nNo More Heroes is a vitally useful intervention in the current political moment. Spot-on analysis\, gripping examples\, and a clear\, urgently necessary argument about how we need to re-think harmful “rescue” frames and the leadership models they foster will make this book immensely useful to contemporary movements. No More Heroes helps us understand how our movements’ debates about leadership\, respectability politics and co-optation relate to long-standing investment in ideas of saving that have got to be dismantled if we are going to build the new world we so desperately need and long for.\n– Dean Spade\, Author\, Normal Life: Administrative Violence\, Critical Trans Politics\, and the Limits of Law\n \n“Buy this book if you believe a better world is possible and want to know how to get there. From Jordan Flaherty\, the journalist that broke the story of The Jena Six\, comes this thrilling people’s history of current movements for revolutionary change. A powerful\, engaging\, exciting book for anyone concerned about the state of the world.”\n-Cynthia McKinney\, 2008 Green Party Presidential Candidate; former Georgia Congresswoman\n \nSee more at jordanflaherty.org/saviors. \n  \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/nonprofits-foundations-and-resisting-the-savior-mentality/
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SUMMARY:READ ALOUD TO CAUSE TROUBLE: Impropria Persona Release Party
DESCRIPTION:  \nREAD ALOUD TO CAUSE TROUBLE brings together a gaggle of wobbly-kneed armchair revolutionaries who don’t vote to celebrate the release of IMPROPRIA PERSONA\, a collaborative chapbook by Kay Gabriel and David W. Pritchard (Damask Press\, 2017) with an evening of poems and provocations.\n \nREADERS: \n\nKAY GABRIEL is the author of Elegy Department Spring (BOAAT Press\, forthcoming) and\, with David W. Pritchard\, Impropria Persona. She is aufgehoben or bust\, baby. \n  \nDAVID W. PRITCHARD is a poet and a scholar\, though he is not a poet-scholar. He is the author\, with Kay Gabriel\, of Impropria Persona. He is currently working on a super-poem entitled REVOLUTION OR DECADENCE for which he has been paid 50 cents by an anonymous donor. In this way he is the last living residue of literary patronage. \n  \nA.B. ROBINSON has been called a Surrealist in both condemnation and praise. She is not a Surrealist. \n  \nCAM SCOTT is a poet\, critic\, and practicing non-musician from Winnipeg\, Canada\, Treaty One territory. He performs under the name Cold-catcher and as always\, the motivating question is For whom? \n  \nZACHARY LAMALFA was recently described as a poet whom one could easily imagine enjoying a career as a civil engineer or architect\, which made everyone else in the room laugh very hard. He is one thing about the city. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/impropria-persona-release-party/
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SUMMARY:Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism
DESCRIPTION:  \nA reading and discussion on resistance movements past and present\, and the special role of LGBTQ movements in American radicalism\, by L.A. Kauffman\, author of the new book\, DIRECT ACTION. \n\nAs Americans take to the streets in record numbers to resist the presidency of Donald Trump\, L.A. Kauffman’s timely\, trenchant history of protest offers unique insights into how past movements have won victories in times of crisis and backlash and how they can be most effective today. \nThis deeply researched account\, twenty-five years in the making\, traces the evolution of disruptive protest since the Sixties to tell a larger story about the reshaping of the American left. Kauffman\, a longtime grassroots organizer\, examines how movements from ACT UP to Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter have used disruptive tactics to catalyze change despite long odds. The book highlights the centrality of feminist and queer organizers to the creation of a vibrant\, decentralized tradition of resistance and activism. \nKauffman’s lively and elegant history is propelled by hundreds of candid interviews conducted over a span of decades. Direct Action showcases the voices of key players in an array of movements – environmentalist\, anti-nuclear\, anti-apartheid\, feminist\, LGBTQ\, anti-globalization\, racial-justice\, anti-war\, and more – across an era when American politics shifted to the right\, and a constellation of decentralized issue- and identity-based movements supplanted the older ideal of a single\, unified left. \nSuggested donation of $10 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds. \nL.A. Kauffman has spent more than 30 years immersed in radical movements\, as an organizer\, strategist\, journalist\, and observer. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/direct-action-protest-the-reinvention-of-american-radicalism/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170321T183000
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SUMMARY:Union Square Slam presents Natasha Hooper and our Last Open Slam
DESCRIPTION:  \nUnion Square Slam is delighted to host\, all the way from San Diego\, nationally-ranked poet and goddess of grace\, NATASHA HOOPER!! \nAND! It’s your very last chance to qualify for Union Square Slam’s Finals Stage on April 18th. Get down here and sign up early! \n6:30pm: Free Writing Workshop w/ IS Jones\n7:30pm Sign-ups and Socialize\n8:00pm: Slam and Feature \nAll Ages // Wheelchair Accessible\nSuggested Donation $5-$10 \nAbout our Feature: \nIn a short period of time\, Natasha Hooper has made her mark on the spoken word community\, performing on various stages across the country\, spanning from California to New York. She ‘s performed with the likes of Jasmine Mans at the infamous Busboys and Poets in Washington\, D.C. and competed in the largest individual poetry competition\, the Individual World Poetry Slam\, ranking among the top 25. A force to be reckoned with\, Natasha holds the record in San Diego for the most consecutive slam wins in a single season. Recently\, she also became a driving force in helping her slam team\, San Diego Poetry SLAM\, become the #2 team in the nation during her first trip to the National Poetry Slam in Decatur\, GA. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/union-square-slam-presents-natasha-hooper-and-our-last-open-slam/
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