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SUMMARY:Office Hours Poetry Workshop Craft Class with Catherine Barnett
DESCRIPTION:  \nOffice Hours Poetry Workshop presents: a FREE craft class and reading with Catherine Barnett. The craft class takes place from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the Bureau. \nA public reading with Catherine Barnett\, Jen Levitt\, and Paco Marquez will follow from 1:30 PM-2:30 PM. \nSpaces for the craft class are limited to 15 persons so please RSVP in advance to sarahmariesala@gmail.com. Please bring a notebook and pen/pencil in addition to your technological device in case of cross-genre prompts. \nImprov for Poets: In this workshop we’ll practice improvisational writing\, adapting theatrical exercises to our work on the page. We’ll also practice the energizing if at times uncomfortable art of not-knowing as we use the often under-explored resources of syntax to carry our poems into new territories. With supporting materials from Layli Long-Soldier\, Wislawa Szymborska\, Zbigniew Herbert\, Ellen Bryant Voigt\, Forrest Hamer\, William Carlos Williams\, Kathleen Peirce\, and Larry Levis. \nOffice Hours Poetry Workshop provides post-MFA poets access to continued support for manuscript-development and everyday writing. The workshop culminates in a public reading each fall and spring to showcase sizzling new work. We welcome all poets\, especially people of color\, LGBTQ+\, and those who are woman-identified. Our name derives from our side hustle. Many of us are freelance\, adjunct instructors\, who continue to thrive in the margins of academia. \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nCatherine Barnett‘s third collection\, Human Hours\, was just published by Graywolf Press in early fall 2018. She is the author of Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced and The Game of Boxes\, winner of the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. Her honors include a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches at NYU and Hunter and works as an independent editor in NYC. \n  \nJen Levitt is the author of The Off-Season (Four Way Books\, 2016). She received her MFA from NYU\, and her poems have appeared in Boston Review\, The Literary Review\, Sixth Finch\, Tin House and elsewhere. She lives in New York City and teaches high school students. \n  \nPaco Márquez is author of the chapbook Portraits in G Minor (Folded Word Press\, 2017). His work has appeared in Apogee\, Ostrich Review\, Live Mag! and Huizache\, among others. As Spanish Editor for William O’Daly\, he assisted in translating Pablo Neruda’s initial book\, Crepusculario\, for the first time into English\, Book of Twilight\, (Copper Canyon Press\, 2017). His work has been supported by New York University\, The Center for Book Arts\, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Originally from México and Northern California\, Paco lives in New York City with his partner of 12 years. More at: pacomarquez.net \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/office-hours-poetry-workshop-craft-class-with-catherine-barnett/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181201T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181201T210000
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SUMMARY:LSTW magazine issue 3 NYC launch
DESCRIPTION: \nJoin us on Saturday\, December 1st from 7PM – 9:30PM at the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division in celebrating the launch of LSTW Issue 3!\n \nPublished annually\, LSTW is an intimate exploration of lesbian communities across Canada. The bilingual print magazine\, based in Montreal\, Quebec\, celebrates diverse and authentic queer voices from coast to coast to coast.\n  \nMeet founder & publisher Florence Gagnon and other members of the Lez Spread The Word team to discuss the creation of the magazine\, and its third issue\, which includes: An in-depth profile of Emmy-winning writer\, producer and actor Lena Waithe. Other highlights include an investigation into conversion therapy in Canada today\, a conversation between Muslim writers of color Fariha Róisín and Samra Habib\, a photo essay about Mexico City Pride and a look at how virtual reality is queering the porn industry.\n \nThe 230-page magazine is the result of efforts by more than 20 women keen to bring about positive change. Working from a desire to broaden access to LGBTQ+ communities\, lstw honors role models\, promotes diversity and shines a spotlight on lesbian culture in a new way.\n \n+ beauty bar at the event by @fluidebeauty! \n \nSuggested donation of $10 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds.\n \nlstw‘s appeal transcends borders. The magazine is distributed in over 20 cities across North America and Europe\, with key retail sites that include Casa Bosques Mexico City\, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts\, magCulture London\, Athenaeum Nieuwscentrum Amsterdam\, Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth LA\, and McNally Jackson Books and Artbook @ MoMA PS1 in New York. \n \nLaunched in Montreal in 2012\, Lez Spread the Word is an LGBTQ+ organization devoted to producing content by and for queer women. Its first project was an eponymous news and entertainment website\, followed by the awardwinning web series Féminin/Féminin\, which aired on Radio-Canada in Quebec and France Télévisions in Europe\, and through Amazon and Hulu in the United States. A dramedy that looks at the intersecting lives of a dozen or so queer characters\, Féminin/Féminin recently wrapped its second season. Other notable initiatives include the bimonthly party Où sont les femmes?; #12\, a beer co-created with Montreal’s Brasserie Harricana; and the sold-out play Coco. In the fall of 2016\, Lez Spread the Word published the first issue of lstw\, a bilingual print magazine committed to fighting queer invisibility.\n \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/lstw-magazine-issue-3-nyc-launch/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181205T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181205T213000
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SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: Café au Lait
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 \nOn Wednesday\, December 5th\, please join us for Café au Lait (1993)\, written and directed by Matthieu Kassovitz\, starring Julie Mauduech\, Hubert Koundé\, and Mathieu Kassovitz.\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 event is free\, although a $10 suggested donation to help fund future events is much appreciated.\n \nSynopsis: A young woman introduces her two boyfriends (a wealthy African Muslim law student and a poor Jewish bike messenger) to each other on the same day she reveals that she is pregnant. Running time: 1 hour 34 minutes. In French with English subtitles.\n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/olny-poly-movie-night-cafe-au-lait/
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SUMMARY:New Poems from the Bathhouse
DESCRIPTION:  \nsubway hookups\, bathhouse encounters\, and missed connections: \nwe present new work\n(seedy and/or psychedelic) \nfrom Youtube prophet\nMessiahSez \nand poets\nKyle Dacuyan \nand A.W. Strouse \nSuggested donation of $10 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds. \nEvent image: Charles Demuth\, Turkish Bath with Self Portrait\, 1918 (Public Domain) \nKyle Dacuyan is a poet in Brooklyn\, NY. \nA.W. Strouse is a poet who teaches medieval literature. \nMessiah Sez is a YouTube sensation. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/new-poems-from-the-bathhouse/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181207T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181207T213000
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SUMMARY:Keith Taylor Presents.. Version 2.0
DESCRIPTION: \nPerformances by LGBT artists Trance\, Durrty Hanna\, Rockstar Sissy\, Vermex Van Croix\, Baller Brown\, Fabiola Blonde\, & Keith Taylor. \n \nFollowed by the premiere screening of “Silence” 3rd music video from THE STAGE Remixed & Revamped! EP\n \nThis event is a fundraiser for New Alternatives\n \nSuggested donation of $10 to benefit New Alternatives. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n \nNew Alternatives provides a range of services designed to help LGBTQ+ youth succeed in transitioning to stable adult lives and welcomes all youth as they are with no barriers to entry.\n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/keith-taylor-presents-version-2-0/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181208T210000
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SUMMARY:Feminist Data Set Workshop
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join Caroline Sinders and Dilettante Army for a workshop and discussion of Feminist Data Set. This session coincides with the launch of Dilettante Army’s newest online issue\, Plot\, which includes an essay by Sinders. For an initial discussion of queer aesthetic data points\, Sinders will be joined by her fellow Plot contributor Rebecca Ariel Porte and by artist LJ Roberts. \nThis session will investigate varying methods of creating a feminist data set. What is feminist data inside of social networks\, algorithms\, and big data? A feminist data set queers the archive\, the spreadsheet\, and the data set. It moves beyond a white and male space\, forcing the technology to reflect the community. A feminist data set acts as a means to combat bias and introduce the possibility of data collection as a feminist practice\, aiming to produce a slice of data to intervene in larger civic and private networks.  Exploring its potential to disrupt larger systems by generating new forms of agency\, the session asks: can data collection itself function as an artwork? How can we create data to be an act of protest against algorithms? \nParticipants are invited to name digital content such as images\, gifs\, videos\, sound\, music and texts\, which they feel is feminist and queer in nature\, to feed into the data set\, which teaches an AI system to recognize such. Queer data is art\, interviews\, and writing by queer and trans folx\, with special attention paid to the work of people of color data (examples: the Combahee River Collective’s “A Black Feminist Statement\,” “I Want a Dyke for President\,” the sculptures of Simone Leigh\, Janet Mock’s Redefining Realness\, etc.). This process raises questions concerning qualitative data collection and requires the group to reflect on categories supposed to capture feminism. \nIf possible\, please bring your own laptop! This will help you research data points and share any files you find. \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nCaroline Sinders is a machine learning design researcher and artist. For the past few years\, she has been focusing on the intersections of natural language processing\, artificial intelligence\, abuse\, online harassment and politics in digital\, as well as conversational spaces. Caroline is the principal designer and founder of Convocation Design + Research\, a design and research agency focusing on the intersections of product design\, user research\, AI\, emerging technology and public good. \nCaroline has held fellowships with the Yerba Buena Centers of the Arts\, Eyebeam\, the Studio for Creative Inquiry and the International Center of Photography. Her work has been featured at MoMA PS1\, the Houston Center for Contemporary Art\, Slate\, Quartz\, the Channels Biennale\, as well as others. Caroline holds a masters from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nRebecca Ariel Porte (Ph.D.\, University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor) is a member of the Core Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research\, where she teaches a spectrum of courses in literature\, philosophy\, and theory across centuries\, cultures\, and canons. She is currently at work on a book about paradise\, Arcadia\, and the Golden Age. \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nLJ Roberts creates large-scale textile installations\, intricate embroideries\, artist books\, and collages. Their work investigates overlaps of queer and trans politics\, activism\, protest\, narrative\, and craft. LJ’s work has been shown at such venues as The Brooklyn Museum\, The Smithsonian Museum of American Art\, Museum of Arts and Design\, Yerba Buena Center of the Arts\, The Victoria and Albert Museum\, The 8th Floor\, Vox Populi\, The Orange County Museum of Art\, The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art\, The Oakland Museum of California\, The DePaul Art Museum\, The ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives\, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions\, The Bowdoin College Museum of Art\, and The Museum of the City of New York. \nLJ has been the past recipient of The Fountainhead Fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University\, and residencies at IASPIS-Stockholm\, The MacDowell Colony\, QueensLab\, Ox-Bow School of Art\, ACRE\, The Textile Arts Center\, and The Bag Factory in Johannesburg\, South Africa. \nIn 2015 LJ was one of nine recipients of The White House Champions of Change Award for LGBTQI Artists. \nLJ lives and works in Brooklyn\, NY. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/feminist-data-set-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181209T150000
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SUMMARY:Issue Launch Party for TSQ: Trans*Historicities
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly and co-editors Leah DeVun and Zeb Tortorici for the launch of TSQ’s new issue “Trans*historicities.” This issue brings together artists\, curators\, and scholars imagining a history of trans* before the advent of terms that scholars generally look to for the formation of modern concepts of gender\, sex\, and sexuality. Contributors — including Kadji Amin\, M.W. Bychowski\, Julian B. Carter\, Julian Gill-Peterson\, J. Halberstam\, Asato Ikeda\, Maya Mikdashi\, Carlos Motta\, Kai Pyle\, C. Riley Snorton\, Jennifer Wilson\, and others — consider what we find if we look for trans* before trans*. \n  \nLeah DeVun is a historian\, artist\, and associate professor at Rutgers University.  She’s the author of Prophecy\, Alchemy\, and the End of Time and articles in Radical History Review\, GLQ\, WSQ\, Osiris\, and ASAP/Journal. Her artwork and curatorial projects have been featured in publications such as Artforum\, Hyperallergic\, People\, Huffington Post\, Art Papers\, and Slate and at venues such as USC’s ONE Archives Gallery and Museum\, Skidmore College’s Tang Teaching Museum\, NYU’s Fales Library & Special Collections\, Houston Center for Photography\, Blanton Museum\, Brooklyn Museum\, and Leslie-Lohman Museum\, among others. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZeb Tortorici is an historian and associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University.  He is the author of Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain (2018)\, and has recently co-edited two issues of Radical History Review on the topic of “Queering Archives.” He also edited Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America (2016) and co-edited Centering Animals in Latin American History (2013). His co-edited anthology Ethnopornography: Sexuality\, Colonialism\, and Anthropological/Archival Knowledge is forthcoming with Duke University Press. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/issue-launch-party-for-tsq-transhistoricities/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181213T210000
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SUMMARY:Meryl Meisler's SASSY '70s
DESCRIPTION: \nMeryl Meisler\, with camera in hand\, documented the process of her coming out and exploring LGBTQ NY communities during the 1970s. She’ll be sharing her images and stories of Disco\, nightlife\, Fire Island\, and self portraits from her book Purgatory & Paradise SASSY ‘70s Suburbia & The City.\n \nCopies of Purgatory & Paradise SASSY ‘70s Suburbia & The City will be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com.\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeryl Meisler was born in the South Bronx and raised in North Massapequa\, Long Island in New York. Inspired by Diane Arbus and Jacques Henri Lartigue\, Meryl began photographing herself\, family\, and friends while enrolled in a photography class at The University of Wisconsin\, Madison. In 1975\, Meryl returned to New York City and studied with Lisette Model\, continuing to photograph her hometown and the city around her She frequented and photographed the infamous New York discos.After a 31-year career as a NYC public school art teacher\, she began revealing large bodies of unseen work. Her monographs\, “A Tale of Two Cities Disco Era Bushwick” and “Purgatory & Paradise SASSY ‘70s Suburbia & The City\,” (Bizarre Publishing) are internationally acclaimed. Meryl lives and works in New York City\, continuing the photographic memoir she began in 1973 – a uniquely American story\, sweet and sassy with a pinch of mystery. She is represented by Steven Kasher Gallery. \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/meryl-meislers-sassy-70s/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181214T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181214T213000
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SUMMARY:Office Hours Poetry Workshop Fall Showcase Reading
DESCRIPTION:  \nWriters from the Fall 2018 Office Hours Poetry Workshop will read the innovative poetry they’ve developed over the course of five workshop sessions. Our free workshop provides post-MFA poets access to continued support for manuscript-development and everyday writing. We welcome all poets\, especially people of color\, LGBTQ+\, and those who are woman-identified. Our name derives from our side hustle. Many of us are freelance\, adjunct instructors\, who continue to thrive in the margins of academia. \n  \nFeaturing: \nMarty Correia\, Linda Harris Dolan\, Jimena\,\, Jen Levitt\, Paco Márquez\, Caitlin Grace McDonnell\, Holly Mitchell\, Madeleine Mori\, Elsbeth Pancrazi\, Dacota Pratt-Pariseau\, Sarah Sala\, Victoria Sanz\, and Irene Villaseñor.  \n \n \nMarty Correia’s work has appeared in The Mailer Review\, Cagibi\, FUSE\, Punk Soul Poet\, Lady Business\, Sinister Wisdom and Flock. Marty produces the reading series: A Tribe Called Butch and is a memoir manuscript editor. A graduate of NYU’s creative writing MFA program\, Marty recently finished Pigeon Mothers\, a novel set in 1986 in Bridgeport\, CT and Coney Island\, NY. She is represented by the Frances Goldin Literary Agency and has lived in the East Village with her spouse Kate Conroy since 1996. \n \n  \nLinda Harris Dolan is a poet\, editor\, and professor. She holds an M.A. in English & American Literature from NYU\, and an M.F.A in Poetry from NYU\, where she was a Starworks Creative Writing Fellow. She’s former Poetry Editor of Washington Square Review and is currently a freelance editor. She teaches at Rutgers University. Her work appears in Barrow Street\, Breakwater Review\, Cordella Magazine\, No Dear Magazine\, The Brooklyn Review\, The Grief Diaries\, Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine\, and Roanoke Review. Her poems have also been featured in the performance series\, Emotive Fruition. She’s a 2016 Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee. \n \n  \nJimena is a poet & artist born and raised in NYC. She’s a first generation Mexican-American trans woman. She graduated from Hunter College with a B.A. in English. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in poetry. She is a Pink Door fellow (2019) and she curates events centered on QTPOC [with disabilities.] \n \n  \nJen Levitt is the author of The Off-Season (Four Way Books\, 2016). She received her MFA from NYU\, and her poems have appeared in Boston Review\, The Literary Review\, Sixth Finch\, Tin House and elsewhere. She lives in New York City and teaches high school students. \n \n  \nPaco Márquez is author of the chapbook Portraits in G Minor (Folded Word Press\, 2017). His work has appeared in Apogee\, Ostrich Review\, Live Mag! and Huizache\, among others. As Spanish Editor for William O’Daly\, he assisted in translating Pablo Neruda’s initial book\, Crepusculario\, for the first time into English\,Book of Twilight\, (Copper Canyon Press\, 2017). His work has been supported by New York University\, The Center for Book Arts\, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Originally from México and Northern California\, Paco lives in New York City with his partner of 12 years. More at: www.pacomarquez.net \n \n  \nCaitlin Grace McDonnell was a New York Times Fellow in poetry at NYU and has received fellowships from Yaddo\, Blue Mountain Center and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her poems and essays have been published widely\, and she published a chapbook of poems “Dreaming the Tree” (belladonna 2003) and a book “Looking for Small Animals” (nauset press 2012). Currently\, she teaches English at CUNY\, lives in Brooklyn with her nine-year-old daughter\, and is at work on novel. \n \n  \nHolly Mitchell is a poet from Kentucky\, now based in New York. A winner of an Amy Award from Poets & Writers and a Gertrude Claytor Prize from the Academy of American Poets\, she received an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in several journals\, including Baltimore Review\, Juked\, Slice\, and Paperbag. \n \n  \nMadeleine Mori is a Japanese-American poet originally from San Francisco. She received a BS in Wine and Viticulture from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo\, where she was the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her work has appeared in BOAAT\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, Salt Hill\, and Sixth Finch\, among others. She received an MFA from New York University\, where she served as a Poetry Editor of Washington Square Review\, and was the recipient of the 2017 Lucille Clifton Memorial Scholarship from the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. She is the Guest Poetry Editor at Aperçus and lives in Brooklyn. \n \n  \nElsbeth Pancrazi is the author of Full Body Pleasure Suit\, which was the 2016 Tavern Books Wrolstad Contemporary Poetry Selection. She has been recognized for her writing as a Poets House Fellow and an artist-in-residence at Caldera Arts in Sisters\, Oregon. She is working on a new book starring the U.S. Secretary of the Interior. \n \n  \nDacota Pratt-Pariseau is a Vermont poet. She has an MFA from NYU and has been published in Prelude and Bodega Magazine. She currently lives in Harlem. \n \n  \nSarah Sala‘s debut poetry collection\, Devil’s Lake\, was a finalist for the 2017 Subito Book Prize\, and her poem “Hydrogen” was featured in the “Elements” episode of NPR’s hit show Radiolab. The founder of Office Hours Poetry Workshop\, she’s currently at work on Migrainer\, a lyric essay examining the interstices of migraine and creativity. \n \n  \nVictoria Sanz is a Latina Miami native living in Brooklyn. She holds degrees in English\, American Sign Language\, and Poetry. She currently teaches 2s and 3s at Maple Street School\, and is working toward her doula certification. Some of her work can be found in Phantom Limb\, smoking glue gun\, and SWWIM. \n \n  \nIrene Villaseñor is a multidisciplinary artist. She’s pursuing a MFA in Art Writing and Art Criticism at the School of Visual Arts to work on a manuscript about contemporary Indigenous art. Her poem “10 Truths and a Lie” is included in Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color (Nightboat Books\, May 2018). She’s also written for the Los Angeles Review of Books\, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts\, and Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature\, Art\, and Thought. Irene was interviewed for the book It’s Not About Grit: Trauma\, Inequity and the Power of Transformative Teaching by Steve Goodman (Teachers College Press\, June 2018). Previously\, she was part of the team at American Documentary | P.O.V. that received a MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. Irene also received the Catalog for Giving’s Urban Hero Award and the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice’s Women We Love\, Women We Honor Award. \n \n \n \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181215T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181215T213000
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SUMMARY:TELL 49: Permission
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.\n \nTELL ends the year with a night of storytellers curated by Mariel Reyes @marielwashere\n \nFeaturing stories by Chrissy Etienne\, Katie Fricas\, Winter Laike\, and a story and video excerpt by Arisleyda Dilone. \n \nThis is the 49th installment of TELL. The night’s theme is PERMISSION.\n$10 suggested donation to support the Bureau and the performers. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n  \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 \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nKatie Fricas is a cartoonist from New York City. She makes non-fiction essay comics about art\, politics\, and hidden histories in a wiggly\, slap-happy style for various publications and websites. She got her start illustrating for $pread Magazine (RIP) and self-publishing a comic about her life called Blabbermouth. Her work pops up in various anthologies\, including the 2018 Ignatz award-winning book\, Comics for Choice\, and her comics have also appeared in the New York Times\, the Guardian\, the New Yorker\, and PEN America. Her series\, Checked Out\, about almost a decade spent working at NYC’s oldest library\, appears regularly on the website Spiralbound. When she isn’t scuttling all over the city\, she can be found at home scanning the funnie pages. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nWinter Laike is a Brooklyn-based musician and storyteller whose musical works include a collection of songs based on Craigslist missed connections\, a rock opera inspired by a series of dreams\, and songs about life’s everyday struggles. He has appeared on the stage at venues such as The Knitting Factory\, The Bowery\, Music Hall of Williamsburg\, the Duplex\, and the Tank. When he’s not writing music\, Winter enjoys making the internet accessible\, riding his bike\, making not-your-mother’s Rice Krispie treats\, playing with puppies\, and gorging on pizza\, donuts\, and ice cream. \nWinter’s next performance will be Monday\, December 17 at The Tank\, where he will be performing musical works in various stages of development\, including some of the aforementioned projects. More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/498900230587403  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nArisleyda Dilone (b. 1982/Santiago\, Dominican Republic). Arisleyda is a filmmaker\, writer\, actor\, multilingual translator and model. Her practice is rooted in revealing the deeply personal through all the mediums necessary. In 2015 she completed the short film: Mami y Yo y Mi Gallito /Mom and Me and My Little Rooster. As a writer\, she was a contributing author in Period: Twelve Voices Tell the Bloody Truth a book of essays. She is currently working on a feature length documentary titled: This Body\, Too. \n  \nArisleyda is a member of Diverse Filmmakers Alliance\, Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective and Ay Ombe Theater. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nChrissy Etienne is a queer Haitian poet and storyteller by way of birth right. \nThey’d like to know what going home feels like. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-49/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Global Gay
DESCRIPTION:  \nDirected by Salvino Raco\, Global Gay is a performance piece and reading based on Frédéric Martel‘s book\, Global Gay: How Gay Culture Is Changing the World\, now available in English translation\, which describes how lgbtq culture has changed societies everywhere\, especially in the post-Stonewall Era. Martel’s book also examines the challenges to lgbtq folk in cultures that are hostile to alternative forms of sexual and gender expression. Directed by Salvino Raco\, the full production will be presented at LaMaMa ETC in June 2019 as part of the Stonewall50 commemorations.\n \n \nSalvino Raco\, Italian director based in Paris\, has conceived and mounted many productions in the “theater of engagement” sphere. His works focus on human rights issues and protest against oppressive political and cultural structures\, in the Brechtian tradition. An abridged version of “Global Gay” was presented to much acclaim at the Milan Triennale in 2016.\n \n \nCraig Anthony Bannister\, associate producer\, is artistic/program director for Spectrum Arts Production. As part of his work with Salvino Raco\, he is initiating a series of intergenerational workshops designed to interpret the “Global Gay” to a wide audience\, ranging from Stonewall veterans of 1969 to today’s young people struggling with lgbtq and gender-fluid issues.\n \n \nEdward Moran\, producer/translator/narrator\, has assisted Salvino Raco in translating his scripts and production notes from French to English\, and has also assisted him in introducing Raco’s work to American theaters. A resident of New York City since June 1969\, he was a witness to the Stonewall rebellion and its aftermath. \n \n \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/global-gay/
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