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SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: Design for Living
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 May 1st\, the third anniversary of Poly Movie Night\, please join us for a re-viewing of Design for Living (1933)\, written by Ben Hecht (based on the Noel Coward play)\, directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Gary Cooper\, Miriam Hopkins\, and Fredric March. \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: Gilda Farrell\, a commercial artist living in Paris\, falls in love with a painter and a playwright\, two old friends who are sharing an apartment. When she can’t make up her mind which one of them she prefers\, she proposes a “gentleman’s agreement”: She will move in with them as a friend and critic of their work\, but they will never have sex. But when Tom goes to London to supervise a production of one of his plays\, leaving Gilda alone with George\, how long will their gentleman’s agreement last? Running time: 1 hour 31 minutes. \n 
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception for Greetings from Cherry Grove: Works by the Residents of the 2018 Fire Island Artist Residency
DESCRIPTION:  \nGreetings from Cherry Grove: Works by the Residents of the 2018 Fire Island Artist Residency is an exhibition of art by the five artists who were selected to participate in the FIAR summer 2018 residency. Anna Campbell (New York) will be debuting an enormous new photographic work of athletic bodies in the sun created alongside the artist’s rigorous study of our collective queer past. Jose Figueroa (Oakland) will be exhibiting evidence of his daily text and image observational recordings of his days in Cherry Grove\, from clothing optional beach blankets to intimate community gatherings. During residency\, Kiarash K (Germany) mined his internal psychoanalytic response to being submerged in an LGBTQ enclave to begin a series of haunting paintings and drawings\, a selection of which will be included in our exhibition. Brooklyn’s Leeanne Maxey’s own observational beach drawings\, assembled still lives\, and more recent paintings explore her close relationship to communities both intolerant and inclusive\, allowing them to clash and coalesce in paintings that blur the lines between photographic and magical realism. Finally\, Montgomery Perry Smith melds the body\, specifically orifices\, with the flora of Fire Island in a series of delicate\, meticulously crafted experiential sculptures that assert the beauty of queer sexuality. \n  \nGreetings from Cherry Grove: Works by the Residents of the 2018 Fire Island Artist Residency will be on view at the Bureau from Friday\, May 3\, through Sunday\, June 2\, 2019. \nOpening Reception: Friday\, May 3\, 6 to 9 PM \n  \nFire Island Artist Residency (FIAR) is an organization founded in 2011 which brings lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, transgender\, and queer identifying emerging visual artists and poets to Fire Island\, a place long-steeped in LGBTQ history\, to create\, commune\, and contribute to the location’s rich artistic history. \nEach summer FIAR provides free live/work space to five visual artists and three poets who work\, socialize\, and immerse themselves in the Fire Island community for four weeks\, during which time they are visited by a handful of renowned figures from the visual art and writing communities who interact with residents through intimate visits\, dinners\, and discussions\, providing support and feedback. The greater Fire Island community as well as visitors from New York and Long Island are invited to attend free public lectures by these esteemed guests. This has been made possible through a partnership with Arts Project Cherry Grove\, who invite FIAR to hold our programming in the historic Cherry Grove Community House\, a landmarked LGBTQ historic site. In this way\, FIAR hopes to bring both new creative perspectives and prestigious art professionals together in this extraordinary location to foster the creation—and preservation—of queer art-making in contemporary art. \n  \nThis exhibition is made possible with the support of the following major sponsors: \nNew York State Council on the Arts \nBetween Bridges \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nImage: Jose Figueroa\, Cherry Grove Beach Front\, 2018 \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:"LOTUS MINK" Film Screening and Performance Event
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin @newfest alum filmmaker @derricklmiddleton\, director of Shape Up: Gay in the Black Barbershop as he premieres an exclusive sneak peek of his upcoming film Lotus Mink\, a documentary about his start in drag! Film Screening with live performances from Lotus Mink\, Egyptt LaBeija & Thee Suburbia America followed by Q&A! 6pm Saturday\, May 4th at @bgsqd \n  \nDerrick L. Middleton is a Harlem born filmmaker/performance artist. His directorial debut Shape Up: Gay in the Black Barbershop world premiered at President Obama’s White House in 2016 and won the Audience Choice Award at Newfest. His follow-up film titled Lotus Mink is at once a meditation on the construct of black masculinity and a documentary about the creation of his drag persona Lotus Mink. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/lotus-mink-film-screening-and-performance-event/
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SUMMARY:NYC Gay Guys' Book Club Discusses Rabih Alameddine's Angel of History
DESCRIPTION:  \nNYC Gay Guys’ Book Club is a group of gay guys of all ages who meet the first Tuesday of every month. We usually meet at the Jefferson Market branch of the public library on 6th Avenue & West 10th Street\, but we’ll meet at the Bureau while the library is being renovated. We read an eclectic range of books from classics to newly-released works. We don’t necessarily read books with a gay theme or characters and always open to suggestions. Very easy going; more social than academic. You don’t necessarily have to commit to coming every single month\, just whenever your schedule or reading tastes permit.  \n \nThis month (May 7th) we are discussing Rabih Alameddine‘s Angel of History. \n  \nOn Tuesday\, June  4th\, we’ll discuss Joan Dempsey‘s This Is How It Begins.\n  \nBoth Rabih Alameddine‘s Angel of History and Joan Dempsey‘s This Is How It Begins (and many other titles!) are available for purchase at the Bureau. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you for your support! \n  \nThis event is free\, but donations to support the Bureau are much appreciated! \n \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Office Hours Spring 2019 Showcase Reading
DESCRIPTION:  \nCheck out sizzling new writing at the Office Hours Spring 2019 Showcase! The workshop provides post-MFA poets access to continued support for manuscript-development and everyday writing\, culminating in a public reading each fall and spring to showcase stellar new work. We welcome all poets\, especially people of color\, LGBTQ+\, and those who are femme-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: \nLaura Cresté\, Linda Harris Dolan\, Emily Hockaday\, Francisco Márquez\, Paco Márquez\, Holly Mitchel\, Madeleine Mori\, Dacota Pratt-Pariseau\, and Noel Sikorski. \n \n  \nLaura Cresté holds an MFA in Poetry from NYU. She is the winner of Breakwater Review’s 2016 Peseroff Prize\, and her work has appeared in No Tokens Journal\, Tinderbox Poetry Journal\, Powder Keg Magazine\, and Bodega Magazine. \n \n  \nLinda Harris Dolan is a poet and editor. 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 taught writing at The King’s College and NYU. Linda’s work appears in The Grief Diaries\, Roanoke Review\, and Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine\, and she was a 2016 Best of the Net nominee. \n \n  \nEmily Hockaday is a Queens-based poet and editor. Her newest chapbook\, Beach Vocabulary\, is forthcoming from Red Bird Chaps. She is author of Space on Earth (Grey Book Press)\, Ophelia: A Botanist’s Guide (Zoo Cake Press)\, What We Love & Will Not Give Up (Dancing Girl Press)\, and Starting a Life (Finishing Line Press). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals\, most recently Newtown Literary\, The Maine Review\, and Salt Hill. She is Associate Editor of Analog Science Fiction & Fact and Asimov’s Science Fiction\, and she can be found on the web at www.emilyhockaday.com and @E_Hockaday. \n \n  \nFrancisco Márquez is a Venezuelan poet with work appearing in The Brooklyn Rail\, Bennington Review\, and Narrative magazine. He has received honors from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, The Poetry Project\, and Letras Latinas. He lives in Brooklyn. \n \n  \nPaco Márquez is author of the chapbook Portraits in G Minor (Folded Word Press\, 2017). His poetry can be found in Apogee\, Ostrich Review\, Live Mag! and Huizache. 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). Originally from México and Northern California\, Paco lives in Manhattan\, where he helps run Office Hours! He lives with his partner of 13 years. More at: pacomarquez.net \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 in Baltimore Review\, Juked\, and Narrative\, among other journals. \n \n  \nMadeleine Mori is a Japanese-American poet originally from San Francisco. She received a bachelor’s degree in winemaking from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and an MFA from New York University\, where she served as a Poetry Editor of Washington Square Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in BOAAT\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, Salt Hill\, Sixth Finch\, Neck\, and The Cincinnati Review\, among others. She is the Poetry Editor at Pigeon Pages and lives in Brooklyn. \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  \nNoel Sikorski is a Senior Lecturer in the Expository Writing Program at NYU. Her poems have appeared in American Poets Magazine\, Georgetown Review\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, and The Bellevue Literary Review. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190510T190000
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SUMMARY:Jerry The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens Book Signing & Reading
DESCRIPTION:  \nJerry the Marble Faun of Grey Gardens (Jerry Torre) will read from his book The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens: A Memoir of the Beales\, the Maysles Brothers\, and Jacqueline Kennedy\, nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography. Jerry will sign books following the reading. \n  \nThe Marble Faun of Grey Gardens: A Memoir of the Beales\, the Maysles Brothers\, and Jacqueline Kennedy is Jerry Torre’s touching and at times haunting memoir about his teenage days as caretaker of Grey Gardens\, the now-celebrated mansion chronicled in the iconic documentary Grey Gardens and two feature-length films. The book is a behind-the-scenes look at “Big Edie” and “Little Edie” and their bizarre and reclusive life of squalor amidst the tremendous wealth of East Hampton\, the family bond that developed between Jerry and them\, and the afternoon everything was turned upside down forever with the arrival of documentary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles. \n  \nCopies of The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens 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  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190512T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190512T193000
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SUMMARY:Keetje Kuipers\, Meg Day\, & Jason Schneiderman
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin poets Keetje Kuipers\, Meg Day\, and Jason Schneiderman for a reading of their work at the Bureau! \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  \nKeetje Kuipers currently teaches at Hugo House in Seattle and serves as Senior Editor at Poetry Northwest\, where she is the author of the literary recipe mash-up Line Cook and curator of the series On Failure. Keetje lives with her wife and daughter on an island in the Salish Sea. She is currently at work on a novel set in Wyoming\, as well as a memoir about the seven months she spent living alone and off the grid\, two hours down a dirt road from the nearest human being. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nMeg Day is the 2015-2016 recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship\, a 2013 recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry\, and the author of Last Psalm at Sea Level (Barrow Street 2014)\, winner of the Barrow Street Poetry Prize and the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award\, and a finalist for the 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University. Day is Assistant Professor of English & Creative Writing at Franklin & Marshall College and lives in Pennsylvania. www.megday.com  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJason Schneiderman is the author of Hold Me Tight (forthcoming from Red Hen in 2020);  Primary Source (Red Hen 2016);Striking Surface (Ashland Poetry Press 2010); and Sublimation Point (Four Way 2004); as well as the editor of Queer: A Reader for Writers (Oxford UP 2016). He is an Associate Professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College\, CUNY. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Heelz on Reelzzz: Short Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nFabulous evening of queer short films featuring femmes\, queens\, hustlers and other magical creatures! Curated by Heather María Ács \nDoors 7:30\, Screening 8pm $5-$15\, NOTAFLOF (No one turned away for lack of funds) \n  \nStarring: \nBad Ally Web Series  \nAriel Mahler and Daquisha Jones \n  \nMouth Wide Open  \nWriter/Director Siobhan Aluvalot  \nFeaturing Fanciulla Gentile\, Shawna Shawnté & Stevie Ann DePaola  \n  \nQUEER HABITS  \nDocumentary by Drew Denny  \n  \nWork by Celeste Chan  \n  \nFlu$h  \nWriter/Director Heather María Ács  \nFeaturing Tanisha Thompson Christine Davitt Morgan Sullivan Minerva Summer And MORE!!! \n  \nAccessibility: The Bureau is located at the LGBT Center. ADA compliant. Elevators. Ramps. Armless chairs. \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190518T110000
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SUMMARY:Office Hours Craft Class & Reading With Candace Williams
DESCRIPTION:  \nOffice Hours Poetry Workshop presents: “Generative Erasure Poetry”— a FREE craft class and reading with author Candace Williams.\n \nThe craft class takes place from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. A public reading with Candace Williams\, Omotara James\, and Safia Jama will follow from 1:30 PM-2:30 PM. \n  \nSpaces for the craft class are limited to 15 persons so please RSVP in advance to sarahmariesala@gmail.com and include your full name\, relationship to writing\, and a brief bio. \n  \n“Generative Erasure Poetry”  \nHow can erasure poetry be a means for confrontation and dialogue? What makes a good erasure poem? After analyzing a few erasure poems\, we will discuss the process for selecting source texts and surfacing poetry in those texts via erasure. Readings include work by Chase Berggrun\, jayy dodd\, Solmaz Sharif\, M. NourbeSe Philip\, and Srikanth Reddy. Students can bring their own source texts to erase. Candace will also supply a few texts. \n  \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  \nSafia Jama was born to a Somali father and an Irish-American mother in Queens\, New York. A Harvard graduate and a Cave Canem fellow\, she has poetry appearing or forthcoming in Ploughshares\, Boston Review\, BOMB\, Cagibi\, and RHINO. Safia is a Pushcart-nominated poet and her manuscript was a semi-finalist in the Pleiades Press Editors Prize for Poetry. She was the subject of a “Shades of U.S.” documentary about her life and work (CUNY TV). Safia teaches in the English Department at Baruch College. \n  \n  \nOmotara James is the author of the chapbook\, “Daughter Tongue\,” selected by African Poetry Book Fund\, in collaboration with Akashic Books\, for the 2018 New Generation African Poets Box Set. Born in Britain\, she is the daughter of Nigerian and Trinidadian immigrants. Her honors include a 92Y/Discovery Prize\, a Nancy P. Schnader American Academy of Poets Prize and being shortlisted for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Academy of American Poets\, Literary Hub\, Poetry Society of America\, Winter Tangerine\, Nat.Brut and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships from Lambda Literary and the Cave Canem Foundation. She is an MFA candidate poetry at NYU and edits poetry for American Chordata. \n  \n  \nCandace Williams is a black queer nerd living a double life. By day\, she is a progressive middle school humanities educator and robotics coach. By night and subway ride\, she’s a poet. Her first full-length manuscript futureblack is a finalist in the 2018 National Poetry Series open competition. Candace’s first chapbook\, Spells for Black Wizards (The Atlas Review)\, is a winner of the TAR Chapbook Series\, and sold out of its first print run on the day of its launch.\n \n \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:TELL 54: That Time Of The Month. Period.
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. \nThat Time Of The Month. Period. is the theme of the 54th TELL\, Co-presented by Brooklyn Performance Space\, JACK. \nQueer stories and perspectives on queeriods\, periods\, menstruation and that time of the month. \nFeaturing stories by Mariam Bazeed\, Bloom Davis\, Renée Imperato\, Evie Litwok\, Kiera Nagle\, and Kei Williams. \nWe ask that you arrive with an offering of tampons\, pads\, panty liners\, disposable wipes and any other menstrual hygiene products to be donated to the Hetrick-Martin Institute\, an organization that provides community\, basic needs\, health\, education\, and career services to LGBTQ youth. There is also a $10 Suggested donation for Hetrick-Martin Institute Inc. and the Bureau. \nNo one turned away for lack of funds. \nRSVP on Facebook and keep an eye on the invite for updates and info! \n  \nPhotograph by Grace Chu\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \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 the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. 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  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nMariam Bazeed is an Egyptian immigrant\, writer\, and performance artist living in a rent-stabilized apartment in Brooklyn. They have an MFA in Fiction from Hunter College. An alliteration-leaning writer of prose\, poetry\, plays\, and personal essays\, Mariam is a current fellow at the Center for Fiction\, and a past fellow at the Asian American Writers Workshop and the Lambda Literary Foundation. As a performance artist\, Mariam has been a fellow of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at NYU\, and Needing It! by the Helix Performance Network. Mariam’s work has been supported by residencies from Hedgebrook\, Marble House Project\, the Millay Colony\, the Kimmel Nelson Harding Center for the Arts\, and Art Omi. Mariam’s first play\, Peace Camp Org\, was staged at La Mama Theater\, NYC (2017) in the Squirts Festival of Queer Performance Art; the Arcola Theatre\, London (2018)\, in its inaugural festival of International Queer Playwrights; and The Wild Project\, NYC (2018)\, in the Fresh Fruit Festival\, and is available in anthology from Oberon Books\, UK. \nTo procrastinate from facing the blank page\, Mariam curates and runs a monthly(ish) world-music salon and open mic in Brooklyn\, and is a slow student of Arabic music. \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  \nBloom Davis is a producer and performer from Austin Texas. You can catch them upside down performing acro drag burlesque\, rightside up with their sketch comedy team Boogiemanja\, and inside out producing queer and trans events. \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nRenée Imperato  is a Stonewall Era Veteran\, Chairperson of The SAGE Advisory Council and a member of Peoples Power Assembly. \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  \nEvie Litwok is the Founder and Executive Director of Witness to Mass Incarceration (WMI). A non-profit organization devoted to raising public awareness of conditions within the nation’s prisons and ending mass incarceration\, WMI uses documentation\, leadership development\, grassroots organizing and advocacy to make impact. \nLitwok left prison homeless\, jobless\, and penniless in 2014. Despite the lack of resources\, she began speaking out about her experiences there and formed WMI in 2015. \nBesides catalyzing a national conversation about mass incarceration\, WMI works to eliminate sexual violence in prisons and guarantee emergency evacuation of incarcerated people during times of disaster. She also created the Suitcase Project\, which gives newly released people essential items such as a mobile phone\, laptop computer and gift cards to ease reentry. \nA veteran of the women’s and gay rights movements\, Litwok puts the voices of formerly imprisoned women and members of the LGBTQIA+ community at the center of the conversation as she works to change their narratives from invisibility and victimization\, to empowerment. \nHer work has led to a growing network. Litwok is a part of the National LGBT/HIV Criminal Justice Working Group\, which meets regularly with the Bureau of Prisons to discuss increasing safety and dignity for LGBTQIA+ prisoners. WMI is also part of the Raising the Bar Coalition and attends regular meetings with the Justice Department’s Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Management Office. \nIt is her hope that educating the public and developing initiatives will result in policy reform\, a radical change in conditions of confinement\, and meaningful re-entry. \nLitwok formerly worked in the financial industry and holds an MA degree in Psychology from Temple University. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nKiera Nagle\, is a queer NY native\, artist\, writer\, educator\, and licensed massage therapist. She recognizes her privilege in working with people to facilitate their own healing\, which she believes is a body-mind-spirit process\, whatever medium it takes. https://meridianmassagenyc.com \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nKei Williams is a queer transmasculine identified designer\, writer\, and public speaker. A founding member and former organizer with Black Lives Matter Global Network\, the aims of Kei’s work is to transform global culture from the individual into a systemic analysis of structural racism. As Movement NetLab’s Strategic Network Mobilizer\, Kei has helped to develop powerful conceptual and practical tools that facilitate the growth and effectiveness of the most dynamic\, emerging social movements of our time. \nAs lead-organizer on campaigns such as Safety Beyond Policing\, Swipe It Forward\, and Trans Liberation Tuesday\, Kei uses their platform to bring in the voices of those most marginalized by society — those who are queer\, gnc\, and transgender\, and those living with mental illness. Recently\, Kei completed their two-year residency at Civic Hall as an Organizer-in-Residency. \nPassionate about their city – Kei invites you to check out the Black Gotham Experience\, an immersive visual storytelling project that celebrates the impact of the African Diaspora on New York City since 1625. Kei currently serves as BGX Studio’s Culture Producer & Designer. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Chalkboard
DESCRIPTION:  \nBuzz Slutzky and Greg Newton present Chalkboard. \n  \nNo grades. \nNo degrees. \nNo goals. \n  \nAll are welcome. \nNo prerequisites. \n  \nArt histories \nHumor as critique \nSilence as strategy \nFailure \nImpotence \nInsincerity \nInauthenticity \nQueers \n  \n  \nBuzz explores comedic critiques of history. What role does humor play in art? Does humor strengthen art’s power\, or do punchlines trivialize meaning? How have artists used humor to question power and make our own narratives? Why would one be historically accurate when one can be ~hysterically~ accurate? \n  \nGreg explores anti-expressive tendencies in the art world of 1950s-60s New York and the lives of the artists who chose not to express themselves. Getting personal with silent (quiet) subjects. The appeal of the negative\, then and now. \n  \nSuggested donation of $10 to benefit the Bureau. \nNo one turned away for lack of funds. \n  \nChalkboard has the potential to become a series. \n  \n  \nBuzz Slutzky is a non-binary transgender artist\, writer\, and performer whose practice incorporates drawing\, painting\, sculpture\, and video. Their visual art and writing often play between autobiographical and historical content. As a performer\, Buzz has mixed stand-up comedy and musical comedy under the persona Stoni Butchell\, among others. Buzz studied visual art and social movement histories at Sarah Lawrence College and received their MFA from Parsons Fine Arts. They currently teach film and visual art at CUNY College of Staten Island and SUNY Purchase College. \n  \n  \nGreg Newton studied religion and art history at Hunter College. He completed his coursework and examinations for a doctorate degree in art history at CUNY Graduate Center. After having his dissertation topic approved—”The Emergence of Monochrome Painting in 1950s New York”—Newton aborted his pursuit of the degree and a career in academia. He co-founded the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division in 2012 with his partner\, Donnie Jochum. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/chalkboard/
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SUMMARY:Friends of Dorothy—Gay Oz Fan Panel and Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:  \nDee Michel will present his book\, Friends of Dorothy: Why Gay Boys and Gay Men Love The Wizard of Oz\, which is based on questionnaires filled out by over 100 gay Oz fans. Three respondents\, Atticus Gannaway (Senior Writer\, NYU School of Law’s Office of Communications; Former Editor-in-Chief\, The Baum Bugle)\, Erick Neher (Vice President/Marketing\, Hearst Magazines; Culture Editor-at-Large\, The Hudson Review)\, and Joe Yranski (Film Historian; former Senior Film and Video Librarian\, New York Public Library)\, will discuss what Oz means to them individually and also what messages stories set in the Marvelous Land of Oz have for gay boys and gay men in general. Info about book at www.deemichel.info. \n  \nCopies of Friends of Dorothy: Why Gay Boys and Gay Men Love The Wizard of Oz will be 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  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDee Michel has just written Friends of Dorothy: Why Gay Boys and Gay Men Love The Wizard of Oz and has given many talks on the Oz–gay connection. He served as a volunteer at Boston’s Gay Community News and as the first male co-chair of the Gay Task Force of the American Library Association. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/friends-of-dorothy-gay-oz-fan-panel-and-book-signing/
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