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SUMMARY:A World AIDS Day Reading: Crashing Cathedrals: Edmund White by the Book
DESCRIPTION:  \nFeaturing a special reading from Edmund White! \n \nCrashing Cathedrals: Edmund White by the Book celebrates the work of one our most iconic writers\, with essays commemorating his entire oeuvre. On this day of remembrance and activism\, we focus on Edmund White’s seminal work centered on the crisis\, with readings from Michael Carroll sharing an excerpt from White’s impactful fiction\, Lynne Tillman on The Farewell Symphony\, Philip Clark on Loss Within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS\, with Sarah Schulman reading from her Loss Within Loss essay “Through the Looking Glass\,” and Brad Gooch will read from his Loss Within Loss essay.\n \nCrashing Cathedrals editor Tom Cardamone will provide an introductory word about this collection and event.\n \nEdmund White will close out the day with a reading from his work.\n \nCopies of Crashing Cathedrals and Loss Within Loss are available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. We also have many other titles by Edmund White and by the other readers at this event. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you!\n \nMichael Carroll has been married to Edmund White since 2013. He is the author of Little Reef and Other Stories and Stella Maris: Key West Stories.\n \nLynne Tillman‘s latest novel is Men and Apparitions (Soft Skull Press 2018). A book of her selected stories will appear in 2021.\n \nPhilip Clark is co-editor of the anthology Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS and of In the Empire of the Air: The Poems of Donald Britton (Nightboat\, 2016).\n \nSarah Schulman is the author of 17 books\, as well as plays and film. Her interview with Edmund was reprinted in her book The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination.\n \nBrad Gooch is the best-selling author of City Poet\, Flannery\, which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle award\, Rumi’s Secret\, and the memoir Smash Cut. He is currently writing a biography of Keith Haring.\n \nTom Cardamone is the author of the LAMBDA-Award winning novella Green Thumb\, among other works\, and edited The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered.\n \nEdmund White\, recent recipient of an honorary National Book Award\, is the author of the literary classics A Boy’s Own Story and Genet: A Biography. His latest novel\, A Saint from Texas\, is due summer 2020.\n \n \n \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191203T183000
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SUMMARY:Feminism and Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bureau is excited to partner again with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research to bring you:\n \nFeminism and Psychoanalysis\n \nInstructor: Paige Sweet\n \n \nSigmund Freud famously described femininity as a “riddle” and “dark continent.” Yet\, the psychoanalytic theories Freud generated\, particularly his conception of how the unconscious influences the development of the self\, has proved crucial to many feminist accounts of gender and sexuality. Paradoxically\, it’s precisely because Freud did not know what a woman is that he felt compelled to discover how she becomes one. In other words\, feminists have found in Freud a vocabulary for conceptualizing and articulating ways in which gender and sexuality are not natural—that is\, not based on any pre-existing biological\, anatomical\, or psychic material.\n \nIn this course we will explore the intersection of feminism and psychoanalysis in order to understand the network of relations between sexuality and the unconscious\, gender and the body\, “feminine” experience and feminist politics\, unconscious dynamic and social structures. Reading works by Sigmund Freud\, Jacques Lacan\, Judith Butler\, Luce Irigaray\, Julia Kristeva\, Hélène Cixous\, and others\, we will ask: How does psychoanalysis theorize sexual difference in a way useful for feminist politics? Do theories of hysteria have any viability for feminist politics? Is there political potential in writing or thinking from the (“female”) body? If there is a “masculine” logic that has repressed a “feminine voice\,” how might we go about hearing differently in order to listen to that voice? How might the poetic or experimental text be recruited for a psychoanalytically inflected feminism? What are the limitations of these theories of gender and sexuality; that is\, what experiences might they occlude? \n  \nCourse Schedule\n \nTuesday\, 6:30-9:30pm\nNovember 12 — December 10\, 2019\n4 sessions over 5 weeks\nClass will not meet Tuesday\, November 26th.\n \n$315.00*\n \nRegistration is required. Please click here. \n  \n*Three scholarship spaces are reserved in each course because we realize that not everyone can afford to pay the full fee for our courses. Students who cannot pay the full fee should email us at info@thebrooklyninstitute.com to learn about our scholarship options. We will not ask questions about your financial situation but we do ask that you use the system in good faith and consider the needs of other students and faculty members. \n  \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent\, all-volunteer queer cultural center\, bookstore\, and event space hosted by The LGBT Community Center in Manhattan. \n  \nThe Brooklyn Institute for Social Research is an organization of young scholars in New York City\, founded in November 2011 by a few then-graduate students at Columbia University with a shared interest in pedagogy and genuinely interdisciplinary conversation. We teach classes all over the city\, record a regular podcast\, run a digital humanities initiative to preserve rare and out-of-print academic texts\, and in general work frantically at any given time on a broad range of other academic and para-academic projects. We are a nonprofit\, 501(c)3 organization. \n  \nImage: \nLouise Bourgeois\nLe Lit Gros Édredon (with lips)\n1997\nVersion 3 of 3\, state XI of XI\nEtching\, aquatint\, drypoint\, engraving\, and roulette\nPlate: 50 x 67.8 cm; sheet: 63.6 x 80 cm \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T183000
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SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: The Wedding Banquet
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 December 4th please join us for a viewing of The Wedding Banquet (1993)\, directed by Ang Lee.\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: Although Wei-Tung has been happily living with his boyfriend Simon for many years\, he has not come out to his traditional Taiwanese parents\, who are anxious for him to marry a woman. Simon suggests a marriage of convenience with a woman who needs a green card. Running time: 1 hour 46 minutes\, in English and Mandarin. \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191205T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191205T203000
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SUMMARY:All That Heaven Allows: A Tribute to Rock Hudson
DESCRIPTION: \nJoin us as we pay tribute to one of Hollywood’s most iconic stars – screen legend Rock Hudson. Mark Griffin\, author of All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson and Steve Hayes\, host of “Tired Old Queen at The Movies” will examine the life and career of the Oscar-nominated leading man. Following a reading by the author\, Griffin and Hayes will discuss Hudson’s nearly forty year career\, which encompassed film (“Giant\,” “Pillow Talk”)\, television (“McMillan & Wife\,” “Dynasty”) and theatre (“Camelot\,” “On The Twentieth Century”). In the spirit of the season\, we’ll be raffling off some fabulous Rock-related prizes. Copies of All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson will be available for signing. The Bureau is ready to Rock!\n \n \nCopies of the paperback of All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson ($17.99\, released 12/3/19) 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 \nMark Griffin is the author of “All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson” (HarperCollins) and “A Hundred or More Hidden Things: The Life and Films of Vincente Minnelli” (Da Capo Press).\n \n \n \nFilm historian Steve Hayes hosts the long running YouTube series “Tired Old Queen at The Movies.” As an actor\, Steve has appeared in scores of theatre productions and he had a memorable role in the film “Trick\,” the classic boy-meets-boy comedy\, which recently celebrated its 20th anniversary.\n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/all-that-heaven-allows-a-tribute-to-rock-hudson/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191206T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191206T203000
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SUMMARY:Two Jewish Dykes Read Poetry and Prose
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe writing of both Amy Hoffman and Robin Becker is motivated and influenced by their queer\, Jewish identities. Colleagues and friends for decades\, they will talk about their writing and influences and read from recent work. \n  \nCopies of Hoffman‘s The Off Season and Becker‘s The Black Bear Inside Me will be available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy/copies please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you! \n  \nIn addition to her novel\, The Off Season\, Amy Hoffman is the author of the memoirs Lies About My Family; An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the Gay Community News; and Hospital Time. She was editor in chief of Women’s Review of Books for fourteen years and currently teaches creative writing at Emerson College and in the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program. \n  \nRobin Becker is the author of eight collections of poetry\, most recently\, The Black Bear Inside Me. She recently retired as Liberal Arts Research Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Penn State. The Penn State Laureate in 2010-2011\, Becker is the recipient of many awards\, including a Bunting Fellowship\, Massachusetts Artists’ Foundation grant\, and a Lambda Literary Award. \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191208T110000
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SUMMARY:Office Hours Presents: Craft Class & Reading with Jericho Brown
DESCRIPTION:  \nOffice Hours Presents: a FREE craft class and reading with author Jericho Brown.  \nFeatured readers include: Catherine Chen\, Bernard Ferguson\, and Jameson Fitzpatrick! \nThe craft class takes place from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. \nA public reading will follow from 1:30 PM-2:30 PM. \nSpaces for the craft class are limited to 17 persons so please RSVP in advance to sarahmariesala@gmail.com and include your full name\, relationship to writing\, and a brief bio. \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 \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJericho Brown is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard\, and the National Endowment for the Arts\, and he is the winner of the Whiting Writer’s Award. Brown’s first book\, Please (New Issues 2008)\, won the American Book Award. His second book\, The New Testament (Copper Canyon 2014)\, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. His third collection is The Tradition (Copper Canyon 2019). His poems have appeared in The Bennington Review\, Buzzfeed\, Fence\, jubilat\, The New Republic\, The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, TIME magazine\, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry. He is an associate professor and the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University. \n  \n  \nCatherine Chen is a poet\, performer\, and author of the chapbook Manifesto\, or: Hysteria (Big Lucks). Their writing has appeared in Slate\, The Rumpus\, Apogee\, Anomaly\, and Nat. Brut\, among others. A recipient of fellowships from Poets House\, Lambda Literary\, and Sundress Academy for the Arts\, they’re currently working on a libretto. \n  \n  \nBernard Ferguson (he/him) is a Bahamian poet\, essayist\, and MFA candidate at NYU. He’s the winner of the 2019 Hurston/Wright College Writers Award and a winner of the 2019 92Y Discovery Contest. He has work published or forthcoming in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, The Southampton Review\, Winter Tangerine\, and the Best New Poets 2017 anthology\, among others. He wants you to riot about the climate crisis. He hopes you tell him about your wonder. \n  \nJameson Fitzpatrick is the author of Pricks in the Tapestry (Birds\, LLC\, 2020). His chapbooks are Mr. & (Indolent Books\, 2018) and Morrisroe: Erasures (89plus/LUMA Publications\, 2014). He teaches at New York University. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191210T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191210T213000
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SUMMARY:Feminism and Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bureau is excited to partner again with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research to bring you:\n \nFeminism and Psychoanalysis\n \nInstructor: Paige Sweet\n \n \nSigmund Freud famously described femininity as a “riddle” and “dark continent.” Yet\, the psychoanalytic theories Freud generated\, particularly his conception of how the unconscious influences the development of the self\, has proved crucial to many feminist accounts of gender and sexuality. Paradoxically\, it’s precisely because Freud did not know what a woman is that he felt compelled to discover how she becomes one. In other words\, feminists have found in Freud a vocabulary for conceptualizing and articulating ways in which gender and sexuality are not natural—that is\, not based on any pre-existing biological\, anatomical\, or psychic material.\n \nIn this course we will explore the intersection of feminism and psychoanalysis in order to understand the network of relations between sexuality and the unconscious\, gender and the body\, “feminine” experience and feminist politics\, unconscious dynamic and social structures. Reading works by Sigmund Freud\, Jacques Lacan\, Judith Butler\, Luce Irigaray\, Julia Kristeva\, Hélène Cixous\, and others\, we will ask: How does psychoanalysis theorize sexual difference in a way useful for feminist politics? Do theories of hysteria have any viability for feminist politics? Is there political potential in writing or thinking from the (“female”) body? If there is a “masculine” logic that has repressed a “feminine voice\,” how might we go about hearing differently in order to listen to that voice? How might the poetic or experimental text be recruited for a psychoanalytically inflected feminism? What are the limitations of these theories of gender and sexuality; that is\, what experiences might they occlude? \n  \nCourse Schedule\n \nTuesday\, 6:30-9:30pm\nNovember 12 — December 10\, 2019\n4 sessions over 5 weeks\nClass will not meet Tuesday\, November 26th.\n \n$315.00*\n \nRegistration is required. Please click here. \n  \n*Three scholarship spaces are reserved in each course because we realize that not everyone can afford to pay the full fee for our courses. Students who cannot pay the full fee should email us at info@thebrooklyninstitute.com to learn about our scholarship options. We will not ask questions about your financial situation but we do ask that you use the system in good faith and consider the needs of other students and faculty members. \n  \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent\, all-volunteer queer cultural center\, bookstore\, and event space hosted by The LGBT Community Center in Manhattan. \n  \nThe Brooklyn Institute for Social Research is an organization of young scholars in New York City\, founded in November 2011 by a few then-graduate students at Columbia University with a shared interest in pedagogy and genuinely interdisciplinary conversation. We teach classes all over the city\, record a regular podcast\, run a digital humanities initiative to preserve rare and out-of-print academic texts\, and in general work frantically at any given time on a broad range of other academic and para-academic projects. We are a nonprofit\, 501(c)3 organization. \n  \nImage: \nLouise Bourgeois\nLe Lit Gros Édredon (with lips)\n1997\nVersion 3 of 3\, state XI of XI\nEtching\, aquatint\, drypoint\, engraving\, and roulette\nPlate: 50 x 67.8 cm; sheet: 63.6 x 80 cm \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191212T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191212T210000
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SUMMARY:Book release: Love Around the World
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn 2017\, European artist duo Fleur Pierets and her wife\, Julian Boom\, came up with the idea for a performance art project in which they would get married in every country that had legalized same-sex marriage (22 when they started the project\, now 28) After four countries\, Julian was diagnosed with brain cancer and died approximately six weeks later\, on January 22\, 2018. \n  \nFleur Pierets will be launching the first part of her two-volume children’s book series Love Around the World in which Fleur and Julian fulfill the dream of their beautiful project. They travel to Australia\, Argentina\, Belgium\, Canada\, Finland\, France\, Iceland\, Ireland\, Mexico\, the Netherlands\, Portugal\, and the United States\, learning the fascinating traditions and customs and peculiarities surrounding marriage in each country. \n  \nShe will be talking about the work she and her wife Julian did as an LGBTQ artist couple\, about their magazine Et Alors?\, and the start of the wedding performance piece. Fleur talks about the importance of “completing” 22 through a children’s book and the need to keep on working as a human rights advocate by launching bridge-building projects.\n \n \nCopies of Love Around the World 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  \nFleur Pierets is an award-winning Belgian artist and LGBTQ+ activist whose work combines photography and performance with theory and writing in a research-based practice that questions the construction and mainstream understanding of queer identity. She is the founding editor of Et Alors?\, an online magazine devoted to LGBTQ+ politics\, fashion\, identity\, and other issues. Her book Julian has just been published by Dutch publisher Das Mag\, and the first volume of the children’s book Love Around the World is published at 6ft. Press – US.\n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/book-release-love-around-the-world/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191213T213000
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SUMMARY:Fagnanimous: Kazim Ali\, Wo Chan\, Joey DeJesus\, and Rajiv Mohabir
DESCRIPTION:  \nFour poets unanimously agree that winter needs heat. Kazim Ali\, Wo Chan\, Joey De Jesus\, and Rajiv Mohabir read new work.\n \n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \n \nKazim Ali‘s new books include Inquisition (poetry) and Silver Road: Essays\, Maps\, and Calligraphies (cross-genre). \n  \n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nWo Chan is queer poet and drag performer living in Brooklyn. \n  \n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJoey De Jesus edits poetry at Apogee Journal and is a 2017 New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowship recipient. They live in New York. \n  \n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nRajiv Mohabir is the author of\, most recently\, The Taxidermist’s Cut\, and the translator of I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara\, by Lalbihari Sharma. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/fagnanimous/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191214T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191214T190000
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SUMMARY:Raw Meat Collective's Holiday Market
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join us Saturday\, December 14th\, 2019 at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division for a full day of wonder and merriment from 1pm – 7pm. Raw Meat Collective has put together a magical crew of independent publishers and artists to help fill those stockings this holiday season. We’ll have tables of great gifts and books for that special someone in your life. Vendor’s featured at the all day event are Anxiety Dreams\, Camilo Godoy\, Irrelevant Press\, Mathew Dean Stewart\, Raw Meat Collective and Zach Grear who will be selling books\, tee’s\, pins\, prints and much more. Help support these terrific artists and makers\, as well as\, New York’s best bookstore by stopping by for Raw Meat Collective’s Holiday Market. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/raw-meat-collectives-holiday-market/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191215T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191215T190000
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Author Caleb Woods
DESCRIPTION: \nJoin us for an evening with Alabama author Caleb Woods! Caleb will discuss his struggles with mental illness and what it was like to grow up gay in the Bible Belt. He will also read from his book Harnessing Darkness: Expressing Mental Illness Through Poetry. Afterward\, there will be a book signing. Be sure to make plans to attend this event and don’t forget to pick up your copy of this thought-provoking book that dives deep into the raw emotion that someone with mental illness experiences on a daily basis. \n \n \nCaleb Woods began writing at a young age\, first to cope with bullying at school and later to soothe his depressing thoughts. Growing up in the small town of Pisgah\, Alabama\, he was surrounded by religion and found it increasingly difficult to reconcile his faith with his sexual orientation. Caleb was told he would spend an eternity in hell for being gay – and he believed it. He was first officially diagnosed with PTSD in high school after his closest friend died unexpectedly. He moved away to college but ignored his symptoms and didn’t seek help for his mental illness. After years of suffering silently\, he began to accept his sexual orientation and eventually met his now husband\, Luke. Despite a happy marriage\, Caleb continued to suffer with symptoms of PTSD. At their peak\, the night terrors and panic attacks finally drove him to seek professional help. Today\, Caleb receives treatment for PTSD\, panic disorder\, and depression by attending reoccurring therapy sessions. Throughout these years\, Caleb wrote poetry about his specific struggles surrounding mental illness and growing up gay in the Bible Belt. In his debut book\, “Harnessing Darkness: Expressing Mental Illness Through Poetry\,” he reveals his most personal thoughts – some dark\, some light\, some suffering\, some uplifting\, but all existential. Currently\, Caleb lives with his husband in Birmingham\, Alabama. He is a full-time writer\, author\, and poet. \n \n \n \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/an-evening-with-author-caleb-woods/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Office Hours Fall Showcase Reading
DESCRIPTION:  \nOffice Hours Poetry Fellows from the Fall 2019 cohort will read the innovative poetry they’ve developed over the course of six workshop sessions. The Office Hours 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 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 \n \nLaura Cresté is the author of the forthcoming chapbook You Should Feel Bad\, which was selected for a 2019 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. She holds an MFA in poetry from New York University and a BA from Bennington College. The winner of Breakwater Review’s 2016 Peseroff Prize\, she has published poems in No Tokens Journal\, Tinderbox Poetry Journal\, Powder Keg\, and Bodega. She lives in Brooklyn.\n \n \nSharon Her is a Brooklyn-based writer and filmmaker who comes from a non-profit and community organizing background. A 2001 Jerome Travel and Study Grant recipient and former instructor for the Loft Literary Center and SASE: the write place\, Sharon brings a passion for multi-cultural and social equality programming and storytelling. She is currently a workshop leader with the New York Write’s Coalition and her work has been published in Asian Week\, City Pages\, New York Press\, and the Hmong creative writing anthology\, “Bamboo Among the Oaks” (Minnesota Historical Society Press).\n \n \nSophie Herron received an MFA in poetry from NYU\, where they were a Goldwater Fellow. They work at the 92nd Street Y’s Poetry Center\, live in Brooklyn\, and love their cat. Their poetry can be found in Bodega and Cleaver Magazine.\n \n \nEmily Hockaday is the author of five chapbooks\, including the forthcoming Beach Vocabulary from Red Bird Chaps. Her poems have appeared in a number of journals\, most recently Newtown Literary\, The Maine Review\, and Salt Hill. She is the managing 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 \nJen Levitt‘s debut collection is The Off-Season (Four Way Books\, 2016). Her poems have appeared in Tin House\, Boston Review\, The Literary Review\, Sixth Finch\, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City and teaches high school students.\n \n \nPaco Márquez is a poet based out of Manhattan\, author of the chapbook Portraits in G Minor (Folded Word Press\, 2017). He has poems forthcoming in Fence\, and previously published in Apogee\, Ostrich Review\, Live Mag! and Huizache. As Spanish Editor for William O’Daly\, he assisted in translating Pablo Neruda’s initial book\, Crepuscualrio\, for the first time into English as\, Book of Twilight\, (Copper Canyon Press\, 2017). He is currently working with Mexican poet Coral Bracho to translate her work into English. Paco’s work has been supported by The Center for Book Arts\, the New York Foundation for the Arts\, and New York University\, where he acquired an MFA in creative writing and was poetry editor of Washington Square. Originally from León\, México\, Paco has spent most of his life in Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area. pacomarquez.net\n \n \nHolly Mitchell is a poet from Kentucky. A winner of the 2017 Amy Award from Poets & Writers and a 2012 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 several journals including Baltimore Review\, Day One\, Juked\, Narrative Magazine\, and Paperbag. Holly first joined Office Hours in 2017.\n \n \nSarah Sala is a queer poet of Polish-Lebanese descent. Her debut collection\, Devil’s Lake is forthcoming from Tolsun Books June 2020. She is the founder of the free poetry workshop\, Office Hours\, and Assistant Poetry Editor at the Bellevue Literary Review. Her work appears in BOMB\, The Southampton Review\, and The Los Angeles Review. Visit her at sarahsala.com and @sarahmsala. \n  \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/office-hours-fall-showcase-reading/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Sucking Straight Dick and Fighting for Gay Rights
DESCRIPTION: \nA Rare and Very Important Intergenerational Dialogue Between August Bernadicou (25) and Gene Fedorko (77)\n \n \nGENE FEDORKO participated in his first Civil Rights protest in 1963 and was a crucial member of ACT UP. He is a medical professional\, caregiver\, art collector\, curator\, sexual explorer and Downtown fixture.\n \n \nAUGUST BERNADICOU is the founder of The LGBTQ History Project. Since he was 14 years old\, August has been recording and transcribing interviews with gay elders from the 1950s through the AIDS Crisis. To date\, he has done 200 interviews.\n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/sucking-straight-dick-and-fighting-for-gay-rights/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191221T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191221T210000
DTSTAMP:20260614T005643
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SUMMARY:TELL 59: Turn On(s)
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. \nTurn On(s) is the theme of the 59th TELL\, on Saturday\, December 21\, 2019. Featuring stories by Cecilia Gentili\, Diana Oh\, and Nina Ki. \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  \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  \nNina Ki is a Queerean (Queer + Korean) American playwright who uses fantasy and magical realism to give voice to the communities that she belongs to. Originally from California\, she now lives with her partner and three dogs in Brooklyn. She likes her dogs better than most people. \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDiana Oh (they/she) is a multi-genre performer\, singer\, songwriter\, musician\, actor\, and creator of performance\, installation\, concert-ritual\, and party. An open channel to the art that feels good to their body. A feeder of the soul. A non-conforming free spirit. Passionate about decolonizing & queering processes\, Diana is driven most by pleasure\, mutual care\, and keeping things heart-centered. As a Refinery29 Top LGBTQ Influencer\, the First Queer Korean-American interviewed on Korean Broadcast Radio\, a TOW Fellow (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre)\, Van Lier Fellow in Acting (Asian American Arts Alliance)\, Venturous Capital Fellow\, Sundance Institute Fellow\, writer with The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit and EWG\, Williamstown Theatre Festival Artist-in-Residence\, Oh tours with their art in unexpected spaces and enjoys not fitting into boxes. Oh is the creator and performer of {my lingerie play} with national underground installations and concert staged in an effort to provide a safer\, more courageous world for women\, queer\, trans\, and non-binary humans to live in\, CLAIRVOYANCE (her yearlong installation and concert series in Harvard Yard\, the Boston Public Library\, Institute of Contemporary Art\, Harvard Arboretum and A.R.T.)\, The Infinite Love Party: an intentional barefoot potluck dinner\, dance party\, and sleepover for QTPOC and Their Allies (Bushwick Starr)\, Asian People Are Not Magicians (mic.com) and My H8 Letter to the Gr8 American Theatre (The Public Theater). TV/FILM: Queering\, How to Be Single\, NY is Dead (Tribeca Film Fest)\, Hey Yun (feat. on Janet Mock)\, Unicornland. The New York Times calls Oh “irreverent\,” her best friend calls her “the punk goddex\,” you can call her “friend.” \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nCecilia Gentili is the founder\, principal and owner of Transgender Equity Consulting.\nOriginally from Argentina\, Cecilia found her passion for advocacy and community service when she started working as an intern at the LGBT Community Center in New York City. She served on the staff of Apicha Community Health Center between 2012 to 2016\, where she managed the Transgender Health Program. She then served as the Director of Policy at GMHC\, the world’s first and leading provider of HIV/AIDS prevention\, care and advocacy. \nCecilia is also contributor to Trans Bodies\, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community\, and a board member for Translatina Network. Throughout her career\, Cecilia has trained more than 3\,000 individuals on a range of issues that include LGBTQ inclusion\, immigration\, drug use\, sexual health\, trans sensitivity\, and intersectionality. She has worked with city\, state and federal governments\, non and for profit organizations\, helping organizations bring about lasting and meaningful change. \nFor fun\, she loves performing at storytelling and stand-up comedy events where she talks about her life experiences as a Latina transgender woman. She played the role of Ms. Orlando on the acclaimed television series POSE\, a drama on FX that follows the live of TGNCIQ New Yorkers in the ball room scene of the 1980s. \nCecilia has been a tremendous inspiration to our translatinx members and our TGNCIQ Justice organizing committees. She has helped us elevate the fight to decriminalize the sex trades in New York\, to fight for undocu-trans communities' access to legal representation that is culturally competent\, and to push for essential services in NYC that center Trans\, non-binary\, gender non-conforming and queer communities. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-59-turnons/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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