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SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: Wild Side
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 at our regular venue\, the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division.\n \nPlease join us for Wild Side (2004)\, directed by Sébastien Lifshitz and starring Stéphanie Michelini\, Yasmine Belmadi\, and Edouard Nikitine.\n \nWe’ll meet at 6:30 pm at the Bureau (in room 210 of The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center at 208 West 13th Street) 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.\n \nSynopsis: Stéphanie\, who is transgender\, and her lovers Djamel and Mikhail survive in Paris by sex work and dishwashing. When Stéphanie learns that her mother is ill\, the three of them travel to her childhood village to care for her and examine the past. Running time: 1 hour 33 minutes. In French and Russian with English subtitles. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/olny-poly-movie-night-wild-side/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171008T183000
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SUMMARY:AUTO ROBO ECO: Readings
DESCRIPTION: \nAUTO ROBO ECO is a reading for an informal group of writers and artists of various genres writing into the question of selfhood in context. Many of us are interested in thinking through experience as a way to discover or contextualize theory\, politics\, community\, marginalization\, body\, philosophy\, literature\, family narratives\, art history\, transness\, queerness\, comedy\, illness\, identity\, immigration\, feminism\, sexuality\, and performance. Our little group is celebrating one year of dinners and workshops and processy check ins\, and are excited to share what we’ve made. We will be reading a selection of our work.\n \n \nAndrew Blevins is a writer from North Georgia. His essays have been featured in Real Life\, The Point\, n+1 online\, and Crazyhorse. But he might be reading some fiction. He said for me to tell you\, “Hey.”\n \n \nJacqueline Feldman is a writer living in New York who also works in artificial intelligence. She has contributed most recently to The New Yorker online\, Real Life\, and The White Review. Her research interests include the architecture of precariousness in Paris and psychological development and gender as they pertain to bots.\n \n \nJess Goldschmidt writes for performance and also nonfiction. She lives in Glendale\, CA and Brooklyn\, NY. jessgoldschmidt.com\n \n \nEthan Philbrick is a writer and composer. He recently completed a dissertation at the department of Performance Studies at NYU entitled Group Work and his compositions have been performed in New York at the Skirball Center\, Grey Art Gallery\, and Abrons Arts Center.\n \n \nChloé Rossetti is an artist\, writer\, performer\, director\, and sensuality educator. Their creative work lives at the intersection of ecology\, collectivism\, agency\, pleasure\, rewilding\, sensuality\, and love. They are a staff writer for Luna Luna magazine\, and have written for Huffpost\, RENDER\, artforum.com\, The Brooklyn Rail\, and The American Reader. chloerossetti.com\n \n \nBuzz Slutzky is an artist\, writer\, and curator whose practice incorporates drawing\, painting\, sculpture\, performance\, and video. Their visual art and writing often play between autobiographical and historical content\, often comedically. Buzzslutzky.com\n \n \nA note on the event image:\nThis is an illustration of Patricia Highsmith by Buzz Slutzky related to their memoir\, which uses The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith as a backdrop to the narrative.\n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/auto-robo-eco-readings/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171010T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171010T210000
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SUMMARY:How to Unsilence the Silenced: Karen Tintori's Unto the Daughters: The Legacy of an Honor Killing in a Sicilian-American Family
DESCRIPTION: \nKaren Tintori\, author of Unto the Daughters: The Legacy of an Honor Killing in a Sicilian-American Family\, reads and shares research techniques in how to exhume tragic family stories. Annie Lanzillotto hosts and runs the Q & A. \n  \n“Nearly every family has a skeleton in the closet\, an ancestor who sins against custom and tradition and pays a double price–ostracism or worse at the time\, and obliteration from the memory of succeeding generations. Few of these transgressors paid a higher price than Frances Costa\, who was brutally murdered by her own brothers in a 1919 Sicilian honor killing in Detroit. And fewer yet have had a more tenacious successor than Frances’ great niece\, Karen Tintori\, who refused to allow the truth to remain forgotten. This is a book for anyone who shares the conviction that all history\, in the end\, is family history.” — Frank Viviano\, author of “Blood Washes Blood” \n  \nCopies of Unto the Daughters are available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you! \n  \nKaren Tintori is an American author of fiction and nonfiction. Her books cover a wide range of human experience\, from the mysteries of the Kabbalah to the lives of Italian American immigrants. Her books include: “Unto the Daughters: the legacy of an honor killing in a Sicilian American Family\,” and “Trapped\, the 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster.” She writes both as a solo author and in collaboration with New York Times best-selling author Jill Gregory with whom she wrote: “The Book of Names\,” and “The Illumination\,” among others. For more info: www.karentintori.com\n \n \nAnnie Rachele Lanzillotto is the author of “L is for Lion: an Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Mfemoir” and the book of poetry “Schistsong.” Forthcoming in March is Annie’s double book: “Hard Candy: caregiving\, mourning and stagelight” and “Pitch Roll Yaw.” As a singer/songwriter\, Annie’s albums include: “Blue Pill\,” “Swampjuice: Yankee With a Southern Peasant Soul\,” “Never Argue With a Jackass\,” “Carry My Coffee.” For more info: www.annielanzillotto.com \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/how-to-unsilence-the-silenced-karen-tintori/
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SUMMARY:Gender-fluidly Yours: an Evening of Queer Non-binary Non-Fiction with Hida Viloria & Jeffrey Marsh
DESCRIPTION: \nNon-binary pioneers Hida Viloria and Jeffrey Marsh will discuss and read from their respective books\, Born Both: An Intersex Life (Hida Viloria\, Hachette Books) and How to Be You (Jeffrey Marsh\, Penguin Random House)\, with a Q & A to follow.\n \nBorn Both: An Intersex Life and How to Be You are available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you!\n \n \n \nHida Viloria is a Latinx writer and LGBTQIA activist in the vanguard of bringing intersex and non-binary issues to human rights organizations as a consultant (United Nations\, Human Rights Watch and Lambda Legal)\, and to the masses as a frequent television and radio guest (Oprah\, 20/20\, NPR\, BBC…) and one of the most extensively published writers in the field (HuffPost\, The Daily Beast\, The Advocate\, The NY Times\, Ms….). Hida spearheaded the first global call by and for intersex human rights\, was the first openly intersex person invited to speak at the UN\, and is a leader in the fight for non-binary gender recognition with the non-profit s/he founded\, the Intersex Campaign for Equality\, and as the recipient of the second intersex birth certificate in the U.S.. This spring\, s/he was interviewed by Rolling Stone\, Psychology Today\, and NPR about her memoir Born Both: An Intersex Life (Hachette Books)\, which was selected as one of People’s best new books and praised by The NY Times\, The Washington Post\, and more\, and is the first book by an intersex author published by a Big 5 publisher.\n \n \n \nJeffrey Marsh\, author of ‘How to Be You’ from Penguin Random House\, is an LGBTQ activist and icon whose message of inclusion and acceptance has amassed over 300 MILLION views on social media. Named ‘Viner of the Year’ by CBS\, Jeffrey has 500k+ fans on their social channels\, and is the creator of the global trends #NoTimeToHateMyself and #DontSayThatsSoGay. Jeffrey is a regular contributor\, writer\, and on-air host for Snapchat Stories\, Facebook Live\, O Magazine\, Oprah.com\, TIME.com\, Huffington Post\, Buzzfeed\, Mashable\, and Mom.me\, to name a few. Other notable achievements include Jeffrey as social media ambassador/correspondent for MTV/LOGO\, VH1\, GLSEN\, GLAAD and PFLAG. As a fashion model\, Jeffrey changed the garment industry by becoming the first gender non-binary bride in a bridal gown lookbook. Jeffrey is the first non-binary author with Penguin Random House\, and the first multi-hyphenate talent to use ‘they/them’ pronouns (as opposed to he/she/his/her’). Jeffrey’s fans are updated regularly on their self-acceptance fan club app\, available in the Apple App Store and Google Play\, and Jeffrey will soon be seen as the fashion model for their own line of genderfluid clothing. \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/gender-fluidly-yours-an-evening-of-queer-non-binary-non-fiction-with-hida-viloria-jeffrey-marsh/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171012T190000
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SUMMARY:It Makes Me Whole
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join us for an evening of films by artist Doug Ischar. In conjunction with his show of drawings at the Bureau\, Love me Tender\, Jared Buckhiester presents three of Ischar’s works BRB\, Alone With You\, and Tristes Tarzan. A new collaborative film by John Neff and Steve Reinke will be screened as an introduction to the program. \nThe screening will begin shortly after 7 pm. \nTotal Run Time 69min. \n  \nImage:  Still from Alone With You\,  \n  \nSince the early 1990s\, Doug Ischar has worked in sound\, video\, and photography. His work has evolved from large-scale multimedia installations to single-channel videos that address issues surrounding gay identity\, desire\, and loss. Currently an associate professor of photography at the University of Illinois\, Chicago\, he has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Photography\, Ottawa; Photographers Gallery\, London; L.A.C.E.\, Los Angeles; and Museu de Arte Moderna\, São Paulo. \n  \nJohn Neff is a Chicago based artist working with photography\,  installation\, and video.  His works have been shown at Artists Space\, New York; Donald Young Gallery\, Chicago; Golden Gallery\, Chicago and New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago; New York University’s Fales Library and Special Collections; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. Neff is a founding curatorial board member of Chicago’s Iceberg Projects and codirector of the Ravenswood Elementary School Curatorial Practice Program. In 2016\, he served as a consulting curator to the Chicago iteration of the traveling exhibition “Art AIDS America” at Alphawood Gallery. His co-edited volume Militant Eroticism: The Art+Positive Archives is forthcoming from Sternberg Press. \n  \nSteve Reinke is an artist and writer best known for his videos. His work is screened widely and is in several collections\, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, the Pompidou (Paris)\, and the National Gallery (Ottawa).  Born in a village in northern Ontario\, he is currently associate professor of Art Theory & Practice at Northwestern University. In the 1990’s he produced the ambitious omnibus The Hundred Videos (1996)\, and a book of his scripts\, Everybody Loves Nothing: Scripts 1997-2005 was published by Coach House (Toronto). He has also co-edited several books\, including By the Skin of Their Tongues: Artist Video Scripts (co-edited with Nelson Henricks\, 1997)\,  Lux: A Decade of Artists’ Film and Video (with Tom Taylor\, 2000)\, and The Sharpest Point: Animation at the End of Cinema (with Chris Gehman\, 2005). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:XXO Reading featuring DJ Ashtrae & all his Friends
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Triple Love Reading series (XXO) began as a dirty dream in a twisted era. It celebrates the ways poets struggle with and make out the world. It also aspires to mix different communities in NYC. XXO is funded in part by the Greater Los Angeles Cotton Candy Fortune. \n  \n  \n \nIn the summer of 2016\, DJ Ashtrae (Joshua Escobar) graduated from the Master of Fine Art program at Bard College where he was the Dean’s Fellow in Writing\, as well as the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley\, where he was a Merit Fellow. His first collection\, Caljforkya Voltage\, winner of 2017 No\, Dear/Small Anchor Press Chapbook Competition\, launched this September. He is a CantoMundo fellow. He lives in Fort Greene\, Brooklyn with dj lil piñata. IG: djashtrae17. \n  \n  \n  \nCarina del Valle Schorske is a poet\, essayist\, and Spanish language translator at large in New York City. Her work has appeared at the Los Angeles Review of Books\, the New Yorker online\, Lit Hub\, Boston Review\, New York Magazine\, The Offing\, Washington Square\, and elsewhere. She recently won Gulf Coast’s 2016 Prize for her translations of the Puerto Rican poet Marigloria Palma. She is the happy recipient of fellowships from CantoMundo\, the MacDowell Colony\, and Columbia University\, where she is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature. carinadelvalleschorske.tumblr.com /Twitter: @fluentmundo / IG: @psycheandstupid \n  \n  \n \nMaría Fernanda Snellings is an award-winning poet from Washington\, D.C. Her poems & translations have appeared in Luna Luna Magazine\, The Wide Shore\, Kweli Journal & elsewhere. In 2017\, she received fellowships from Callaoo Writers Workshop and CantoMundo. María Fernanda is a Black-Ecuatoriana and a proponent of open-lingual space. \n  \n  \n \nOmotara James writes and lives in New York City. Her poetry chapbook\, Daughter Tongue\, was selected by African Poetry Book Fund in collaboration with Akashic Books for the 2018 New Generation African Poets Box Set. Her work has appeared in The Recluse\, Winter Tangerine\, Cosmonauts Avenue and elsewhere. She is a 2017 Lambda Literary Fellow and has been awarded scholarships by the Home School and Cave Canem. Her awards include the Nancy P. Schnader Academy of American Poets Award. Her debut full length collection\, Mama Wata is forthcoming from CCM press. Currently\, she is an MFA candidate at NYU. www.omotarajames.com /@omotarajames (IG\, twitter) \n  \n  \n \nMel Elberg is a cyclical homosexual garden variety poet at large. \n  \n  \n \nTanya Zamirouskaya was born in Borisov\, USSR\, Soviet Belarus. Zamirouskaya writes surreal short stories about memory\, ghosts\, alienation and language deprivation. Her literary works have been published in Russia\, Ukraine and Belarus\, where she worked as a journalist and music critic. She is the author of two short stories collections\, Life Without Noise And Pain (2010\, Moscow\, AST Publishing House) and Sparrow River (2015\, Moscow\, AST Publishing House). She is currently attempting to write in English in order to study the effects of the language insufficiency on memory\, narration\, and representation. In 2017 Zamirouskaya finished her MFA in writing at Bard College. She lives in New York City. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:TELL 37: HalloQween
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. \nDusty Childers is the special guest host of TELL 37! \nHalloQween is the theme of the 37th installment of TELL. Featuring Katharine Case\, Poison Eve\, and Princess Flicky.\n$10 suggested donation to support the Bureau and the performers. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n  \n \nDusty Childers (Dusty Tea Shoulders/ @duddylynn) directs\, dramaturges\, conjures costumes\, speaks their truth in front of audiences\, drags it up periodically\, and instructs the future via the classroom. Childers’ body and body of work have graced the likes of Joe’s Pub\, Abrons\, The Whitney\, Dixon Place\, BAM\, La Mama\, the Soho Playhouse\, Sid Gold’s Request Room\, NY Live Arts\, Irving Plaza\, House of Yes\, BAM\, The Mix Festival\, Bureau of General Services Queer Division\, The Edinborough Fringe Festival and St. Ann’s Warehouse. He has worked with Justin Sayre\, Taylor Mac\, Heather Acs\, Mister Wallace\, Big Dipper\, Miguel Gutierrez\, Silas Howard\, World Famous *BOB* and Amber Martin (among others). \n  \n  \n \nKatharine Case started publishing an anarcho-feminist zine at the age of 14 in Phoenix. She has used writing as her primary tool for stirring shit up ever since. She moved to San Francisco in her 20s where she did regular readings at rancid bars as the token feminist party girl columnist for the seminal punk magazine\, Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll.  She currently resides in New York\, where she’s spent the last ten years teaching English at a public school where she helps complicated kids find their own voices. \n  \n  \n \nPoison Eve:\nCreator\, Destroyer\, Shredder and petty thief. Boylesque\, draglesque\, performance art and puppeteer. A rare carnivorous night-blooming lily – flaunting neither falsies nor realies\, this downtown stalwart has performed in Blacklips Performance Cult\, the Jackie 60 factory\, and such spaces as the Wild Project\, PS122\, HERE\, Howl!\, St. Ann’s Warehouse\, the Guggenheim\, and (remarkably) both The Cock and The Hole! \n  \n  \n \nPrincess Flicky aka Hollywood South aka Cape Middleton aka Courtney Love Kardashian reigns over Ptown and Nola throwing the most lavish shindigs thru out the continental USA. Currently owns a Blackberry\, former Sidekick 2 owner. Mother to little Willie Nelson (puppy) and favors all shades of pink and denim Loves vodka and good lighting \n  \n  \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:In the Province of the Gods: Kenny Fries and Matthew Gallaway
DESCRIPTION:  \nKenny Fries\, who was born missing bones in his legs\, travelled to Japan to explore how the Japanese view people with disabilities. In Japan\, he discovered (it’s almost a rumor) a god with a disability\, although whether he’s Shinto or Buddhist is unclear. Fries returned to Japan a second time\, but before arriving\, he is diagnosed with HIV. \nFries’s HIV diagnosis shakes up all of his assumptions about Japan\, the body\, and mortality and he is propelled to a new understanding of how to live with the constant knowledge of impermanence and threat of loss.  In the end\, not only was Japan the right place to discover a culture unlike his own\, but Japan was also the perfect place to learn how to re-conceive and re-enter his life. \nAuthor Matthew Gallaway joins Fries in conversation. \n  \nCopies of Kenny Fries’s In the Province of the Gods and In the Gardens of Japan are available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you! \nThis event is sponsored by the University of Wisconsin Press. \n  \nPhoto by Michael R. Dekker\nKenny Fries is the author of\, most recently\, In the Province of the Gods\, as well as Body\, Remember: A Memoir and The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory\, winner of the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. He is the editor of Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out and author of the libretto for The Memory Stone\, an opera commissioned by Houston Grand Opera. \n  \n \n\nMatthew Gallaway is the author of #gods — described by Lambda Literary as “epic” and “riveting” — and The Metropolis Case\, which was praised by the New York Times for being “driven by exuberance and morbidity\, fatalism and erotic energy.” He lives in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City with his partner and four cats. \n 
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SUMMARY:2017 NY Queer Zine Fair
DESCRIPTION:  \nWe are excited to be presenting the third New York Queer Zine Fair on October 21 and 22. The event will bring more than 40 queer artists\, zine makers. collectives and publishers from around the world to present and sell their current work. \nThis year we’ll take over three rooms on the second floor of The LGBT Community Center – Room 201A\, The Keith Haring Bathroom and of course the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. \nSaturday\, 21 October / 12:00pm to 7:00pm\nSunday 22 October/ 12:00pm to 7:00pm \nThere will be a few different exhibitors on Saturday and Sunday so be sure to check out both days. \nFree admission. \nWe look forward to seeing you there! \nSATURDAY and SUNDAY: \n3 Dot Zine www.3dotzine.com\nAnand Vedawala www.anandvedawala.com\nAnthony Malone www.anthonymaloneisalive.tumblr.com\nAnxiety Dreams www.anxiety-dreams.com\nAuthorized to Work in the US Press www.authorizedtowork.us\nBEARPAD www.thebearpad.com\nBelladona Series https://www.belladonnaseries.org/\nBound Leather Zine www.boundleatherzine.com\nBrusque Babe www.brusquebabe.com\nCameron Dailey / scum bag fag rag Instagram.com/yescameron\nChris Moody www.cargocollective.com/chrismoody\nChristopher Clary www.christopherclary.com\nDoable Guys www.doableguys.tumblr.com\nGay Sex Is The Answer www.Davidmodel.com\nheadmaster www.headmastermagazine.com\nhomie house press www.adrianastories.com/homiehousepress/\nHOMOCATS www.HOMOCATS.com\n“Homos in Herstory” by Mr. Elvis www.elvis007.wordpress.com\nInstitue 193 www.institute193.org\nJoe Ovelman. www.joeovelman.com\nKaren Kaye Llamas www.Karenkayellamas.com\nkhaleel www.thisnumberisinvalid.tumblr.com\nKnowsgay www.knowsgay.tumblr.com\nMatthew Scott Gualco www.matthewgualco.com\nOlivia M. www.etsy.com/shop/ParadoxNowCreations\nPink Mince www.pinkmince.com\nRaw Material www.tumblr.com/blog/rawmaterialzine\nSlow Youth www.slowyouth.info\nStraight To Hell chapbooks & editions www.straight-to-hell.com\nSula Collective www.sulacollective.com\nThe Bettys www.thebettys.com\nVanessa Adams mwww.vanessaadams.bigcartel.com/\nWabisabizinez www.Wabisabizinez.Storenvy.Com \nSATURDAY 21 ONLY\nBarnard Zine Club twitter.com/barnardzineclub\nCakeboy www.cakeboymag.com\nGenderFail www.genderfail.space\nGinger www.gingerzine.net\nPegacorn Press www.carolinepaquita.com/gallery/\nStephen Grebinski www.stephengrebinski.com \nSUNDAY 22 ONLY\nArno Mokros + Nona Schamus www.arnomokros.com +www.nonaschamus.com\nArthur DUMPLING – Cock au Soleil www.legrosmonsieur.fr/cock-au-soleil/\nCassandra Leveille www.secondhandemozine.tumblr.com\nMultiform www.instagram.com/mullteforme\nthe queefs\nTroll Hole NYC www.trollholenyc.com \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:2017 NY Queer Zine Fair
DESCRIPTION:  \nWe are excited to be presenting the third New York Queer Zine Fair on October 21 and 22. The event will bring more than 40 queer artists\, zine makers. collectives and publishers from around the world to present and sell their current work. \nThis year we’ll take over three rooms on the second floor of The LGBT Community Center – Room 201A\, The Keith Haring Bathroom and of course the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. \nSaturday\, 21 October / 12:00pm to 7:00pm\nSunday 22 October/ 12:00pm to 7:00pm \nThere will be a few different exhibitors on Saturday and Sunday so be sure to check out both days. \nFree admission. \nWe look forward to seeing you there! \nSATURDAY and SUNDAY: \n3 Dot Zine www.3dotzine.com\nAnand Vedawala www.anandvedawala.com\nAnthony Malone www.anthonymaloneisalive.tumblr.com\nAnxiety Dreams www.anxiety-dreams.com\nAuthorized to Work in the US Press www.authorizedtowork.us\nBEARPAD www.thebearpad.com\nBelladona Series https://www.belladonnaseries.org/\nBound Leather Zine www.boundleatherzine.com\nBrusque Babe www.brusquebabe.com\nCameron Dailey / scum bag fag rag Instagram.com/yescameron\nChris Moody www.cargocollective.com/chrismoody\nChristopher Clary www.christopherclary.com\nDoable Guys www.doableguys.tumblr.com\nGay Sex Is The Answer www.Davidmodel.com\nheadmaster www.headmastermagazine.com\nhomie house press www.adrianastories.com/homiehousepress/\nHOMOCATS www.HOMOCATS.com\n“Homos in Herstory” by Mr. Elvis www.elvis007.wordpress.com\nInstitue 193 www.institute193.org\nJoe Ovelman. www.joeovelman.com\nKaren Kaye Llamas www.Karenkayellamas.com\nkhaleel www.thisnumberisinvalid.tumblr.com\nKnowsgay www.knowsgay.tumblr.com\nMatthew Scott Gualco www.matthewgualco.com\nOlivia M. www.etsy.com/shop/ParadoxNowCreations\nPink Mince www.pinkmince.com\nRaw Material www.tumblr.com/blog/rawmaterialzine\nSlow Youth www.slowyouth.info\nStraight To Hell chapbooks & editions www.straight-to-hell.com\nSula Collective www.sulacollective.com\nThe Bettys www.thebettys.com\nVanessa Adams mwww.vanessaadams.bigcartel.com/\nWabisabizinez www.Wabisabizinez.Storenvy.Com \nSATURDAY 21 ONLY\nBarnard Zine Club twitter.com/barnardzineclub\nCakeboy www.cakeboymag.com\nGenderFail www.genderfail.space\nGinger www.gingerzine.net\nPegacorn Press www.carolinepaquita.com/gallery/\nStephen Grebinski www.stephengrebinski.com \nSUNDAY 22 ONLY\nArno Mokros + Nona Schamus www.arnomokros.com +www.nonaschamus.com\nArthur DUMPLING – Cock au Soleil www.legrosmonsieur.fr/cock-au-soleil/\nCassandra Leveille www.secondhandemozine.tumblr.com\nMultiform www.instagram.com/mullteforme\nthe queefs\nTroll Hole NYC www.trollholenyc.com \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Intersex & Chill: NYC Annual Intersex Awareness Day
DESCRIPTION:  \nIntersex kids are routinely told from a young age that our being intersex is something private\, something that should be kept secret\, something that you cannot disclose to others at all costs. As a result\, intersex adults and teens who are out and proud often have much difficulty finding other intersex people to connect with\, become friends with\, and even just be in the same room with. “Intersex and Chill\,” this year’s NYC Annual Intersex Awareness Day event\, allows intersex people to come together to share space\, talk\, laugh\, share\, chill\, and just enjoy being in the company of a bunch of rad intersex people. While large hangs with many intersex people are uncommon outside of intersex organizations\, we hope that this event will inspire others to find and create their own communities of fabulous intersex folks and enjoy the profound joy of existing together. (This event is hosted in affiliation with the Point Foundation for LGBTQ scholars.) \n  \nClaudia Astorino is an intersex person and activist who co-founded the NYC Annual Intersex Awareness Day events. She has raised awareness about intersex issues via writing (The Guardian\, Everyone Is Gay\, Autostraddle)\, presentations and workshops (NYU\, UC Davis\, Bluestockings Books) and interviews (First Person PBS\, HuffPost Live\, Circa News)\, and formerly served as the Associate Director of Organization Intersex International’s US chapter (OII-USA). Claudia lives in New York with her girlfriend\, and she really\, really wants a cat. \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Writers Explore the Lesbian Body: A Sinister Wisdom Reading
DESCRIPTION:  \nA sterling\, fabulous\, joyous line-up of writers and artists will read in celebration of The Lesbian Body\, Issue #106 of Sinister Wisdom\, a multicultural lesbian literary & art journal which works to seeks to open\, consider and advance the exploration of lesbian community issues. Issue #106 was guest edited by the ever-kind and admirably fierce Tara Shea Burke. Indefatigable Julie Enszer is editor of Sinister Wisdom. Among the readers\, some local\, some flying in for the event are Vi Khi Nao\, Sarah Fonseca\, Jenny Factor\, Amber Carpenter\, Ayasha Guerin\, Tara Shea Burke\, Julie Enszer\, Joan Larkin\, Sarah Sarai\, Red Washburn\, and others TBD. \n  \nCopies of Sinister Wisdom Issue #106 will be available for sale. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com.\n \n  \nTara Shea Burke is the editor of Issue 106 of Sinister Wisdom – “The Lesbian Body.” She is author of Let the Body Beg (ELJ)\, a collection of poems which Tim Seibles described as “part of the cure.” At Old Dominion University in Virginia she created reflective poetry and essays to promote study abroad courses and utilized field research in Africa to apply global pedagogies and greater global awareness in university writing programs. \n  \nAmber Carpenter is an MFA candidate within the Creative Nonfiction program at Columbia College Chicago. She completed her MA in English from East Carolina University in 2012 with a concentration in both poetry and nonfiction. Her work\, which includes writing and photography\, has been published in Sinister Wisdom\, Mount Hope Magazine\, and Glassworks Magazine. \n  \nAlexis Clements is a writer based in Brooklyn\, New York. A regular contributor to Hyperallergic\, her writing has also appeared in Salon\, Bitch Magazine\, American Theatre\, The Brooklyn Rail\, the Guardian\, Nature\, and Two Serious Ladies\, among others. She is currently working on a documentary film about physical spaces where queer women gather. Follow her @alexisclements \n  \nScholar and poet Julie Enszer is the editor of Sinister Wisdom and author of four poetry collections\, Avowed (Sibling Rivalry Press\, Lilith’s Demons (A Midsummer Night’s Press)\, Sisterhood (Sibling Rivalry Press)\, and Handmade Love (A Midsummer Night’s Press); She is also editor of The Complete Works of Pat Parker and Milk & Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry. We are grateful to her for her many contributions to lesbian literature. \n  \nJenny Factor is an archaeologist of object and mind; she is also a feminist\, a mother\, and a dog-lover. Her poem collection\, Unraveling at the Name (Copper Canyon Press)\, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Her work has been supported by an Astraea Grant in poetry. \n  \nSarah Fonseca is a publicly-educated writer who lives in New York City. Her essays\, criticism\, filthy ideas\, and their overlapping iterations have appeared (or will soon appear) in Autostraddle\, Best Lesbian Erotica 2018\, The Lambda Literary Review\, Math Magazine\, Nylon\, and Slate. She’s currently working on a series of essays on women and strength pursuits. \n  \nAyasha Guerin is an artist and scholar based in Brooklyn. Her art and writing concern themes of the urban/natural\, public and private space\, ecology\, community and security. She shoots her analog photography on a Canon A-1 that has passed through three generations of family. It is the same camera that captured her baby photos. She is currently a PhD candidate in NYU’s American Studies department.  \n  \nVi Khi Nao is the author of the forthcoming story collection A Brief Alphabet of Torture\, which won FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize. Her novel Fish in Exile was published by Coffee House Press\, and her poetry collection\, The Old Philosopher\, won the Nightboat Books Prize for Poetry. She holds an MFA in fiction from Brown University where she received the John Hawkes and Feldman Prizes in fiction and the Kim Ann Arstark Memorial Award in poetry. \n  \nJoan Larkin’s poems\, plays\, and other writings have won awards from Lambda Literary–including the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, NYFA\, the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, the American Academy of Poets and many other. She has published many poetry collections and anthologies\, plays\, and nonfiction. Her most recent collection is Blue Hanuman (Hanging Loose Press). \n  \nSarah Sarai’s poems and stories are in Barrow Street\, Callisto\, Fairy Tale Review\, Posit\, decomP\, Lavender\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, The Collagist\, Cleaver\, Boston Review\, Threepenny Review\, Bone Bouquet\, and other publications. Her most recent chapbook is Geographies of Soul and Taffeta (Indolent Books). Her collection is The Future Is Happy (BlazeVOX). She is a freelance editor and adjunct prof. Follow her everywhere @SarahSarai \n  \nRed Washburn\, Ph.D.\, is Assistant Professor of English and Co-Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Kingsborough Community College. Her articles appear in Journal for the Study of Radicalism\, Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal\, and Journal of Lesbian Studies. Her poetry collection is Crestview Tree Woman (Finishing Line). She co-edited Sinister Wisdom issue 103\, “Celebrating the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival.” \n  \n  \n  \n 
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