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SUMMARY:We Keep Us Safe: Prison Abolition and Transformative Justice
DESCRIPTION:Join Chidi Adeyemi\, Lydia Brown\, Nomi Isaac\, Vicky Osterweil\, Matthew Perry\, & Jennifer Love Williams to talk prison abolition & transformative justice. \nThe prison industrial complex harms us all. The United States uses mass incarceration\, policing\, judicial practices\, and fines to control Black and Brown communities and to profit from their pain. In this panel\, activists and organizers will explore abolitionist imaginations of a world without incarceration and state violence. Transformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at a grassroots level\, without relying on punishment\, incarceration\, or policing. It allows us to build a world dependent on community\, mutual aid\, harm reduction\, and transformative justice-informed violence intervention—not cops and cages—to deliver safety and justice. In this panel\, we’ll explore the history of this radical movement\, how panelists address and fight the devastating impacts of the carceral system on Queer and Trans people of color (QTPOC)\, and how we imagine a future where we keep us safe. \nWe Keep Us Safe: Prison Abolition and Transformative Justice is the third in a series of five virtual events* presented by Reclaim Pride Coalition and the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division in the weeks leading up to the Queer Liberation March\, on Sunday\, June 27th\, 2021.  \nFREE event! \nYou can livestream this event on the Bureau’s or Reclaim Pride Coalition’s Facebook pages or YouTube channels. You’ve got options!  \nWatch on Reclaim Pride Coalition’s Facebook page \nWatch on the Bureau’s Facebook page \nWatch on RPC’s YouTube channel \nWatch on the Bureau’s YouTube channel \n Advance registration is not required to join this event. \nIn conjunction with these events\, the Bureau’s online store now features a section devoted to titles recommended by Reclaim Pride Coalition members–click here to view recommended books on prison abolition and transformative justice. \nPanelists’ biographies: \nChidi Adeyemi (they/them) is a Black nonbinary babe currently organizing with the Reclaim Pride Coalition (RPC)\, a collection of LGBTQIA2S+ folks organizing our third annual Queer Liberation March with no corporate sponsors and no NYPD control. They are also a volunteer operator with Trans Lifeline\, a peer-support crisis hotline for trans callers that emphasizes harm-reduction and sharing resources\, and does not allow nonconsensual active rescue. Chidi believes police place people at risk\, especially callers who are poor\, people of colour\, sick and/or diabled; and that laying the groundwork for support without the risk of nonconsensual intervention saves lives. For three years\, Chidi was a leader of Queer Union (an NYU activist organization)\, where they worked to support trans and GNC communties with campaigns for trans inclusive healthcare and classrooms\, All Gender Clothing Swaps\, and QTBIPOC Wellness events. In their free time\, Chidi loves to care for their plants\, drink endless cups of tea\, and read the pick for their weekly book club\, The Reading Rainbow Revolution.  \nLydia X. Z. Brown (they/them/no pronouns) is an advocate\, educator\, and attorney addressing state and interpersonal violence targeting disabled people living at the intersections of race\, class\, gender\, sexuality\, faith\, language\, and nation. Lydia is Policy Counsel for Privacy & Data at the Center for Democracy & Technology\, focused on algorithmic discrimination and disability\, as well as Director of Policy\, Advocacy\, & External Affairs at the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network. They are founding director of the Fund for Community Reparations for Autistic People of Color’s Interdependence\, Survival\, & Empowerment. Lydia is adjunct lecturer/core faculty in Georgetown University’s Disability Studies Program\, and adjunct professorial lecturer in American Studies at American University’s Department of Critical Race\, Gender\, & Culture Studies. They serve as a commissioner on the American Bar Association’s Commission on Disability Rights\, chairperson of the ABA Civil Rights & Social Justice Section’s Disability Rights Committee\, board co-chair of the Disability Rights Bar Association\, and representative for the Disability Justice Committee to the National Lawyers Guild’s National Executive Committee. Lydia is currently creating their own tarot deck\, Disability Justice Wisdom Tarot. Often\, their most important work has no title\, job description\, or funding\, and probably never will.  \nNomi Isaac (awaiting bio) \nVicky Osterweil (she/her) is a writer\, editor and agitator based out of Philadelphia. Her book In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action was released in 2020 by Bold Type Books. She is the co-host of the podcast Cerise and Vicky Rank the Movies\, where they are ranking all the movies ever made. \nMatthew Perry (he/they) currently organizes with the Richmond Community Bail Fund (RCBF)\, a non-hierarchical volunteer-run nonprofit they helped to start in 2017 which posts bail for anyone who needs it in the Richmond\, VA region\, and broadly works to reduce the life-destructive harm caused by pretrial incarceration. RCBF engages with bail fund work through an abolitionist lens\, which means posting bail for people regardless of their charge\, and recognizing that ending cash bail alone isn’t enough because the anti-black\, anti-poor\, anti-trans violence it reflects will not end until systems of policing and incarceration themselves are overthrown.  \nMatthew understands abolition as the work of building a world where we rely on mutual aid\, harm reduction\, and transformative justice-informed violence intervention—not cops and cages—to deliver safety and justice\, and thinks bail funds can be a great way to begin materializing this world. They are leaving RCBF at the end of this summer to pursue an MA in Experimental Humanities at NYU\, and can’t wait to get re-involved with the vast (and growing) amount of abolitionist organizing happening in New York. When they’re not doing bail fund work\, they love reading novels\, playing soccer\, and petting cats.  \nJennifer Love Williams (she/her) is a formerly incarcerated black transwoman\, an Entertainer and an Activist. She’s the Foundress the Jen Love Project and serves as Co-Chair of the formerly incarcerated subgroup of the National LGBT/HIV Criminal Justice Working Group. She also does work with The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls. (Photo credit: Jose Ramon Photography) \n*Watch recordings of the previous two panels on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nNo Place to Call Home: Queer and Trans Houselessness\, 2021\, took place on April 15\, 2021. \nGenerations of Queer Activism took place on April 27\, 2021. \nThe prison industrial complex harms us all. The United States uses mass incarceration\, policing\, judicial practices\, and fines to control Black and Brown communities and to profit from their pain. In this panel\, activists and organizers will explore abolitionist imaginations of a world without incarceration and state violence. Transformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at a grassroots level\, without relying on punishment\, incarceration\, or policing. It allows us to build a world dependent on community\, mutual aid\, harm reduction\, and transformative justice-informed violence intervention—not cops and cages—to deliver safety and justice. In this panel\, we’ll explore the history of this radical movement\, how panelists address and fight the devastating impacts of the carceral system on Queer and Trans people of color (QTPOC)\, and how we imagine a future where we keep us safe. \n  \nWe Keep Us Safe: Prison Abolition and Transformative Justice is the third in a series of five virtual events* presented by Reclaim Pride Coalition and the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division in the weeks leading up to the Queer Liberation March\, on Sunday\, June 27th\, 2021. \nFREE event! \nYou can livestream this event on the Bureau’s or Reclaim Pride Coalition’s Facebook pages or YouTube channels. You’ve got options! We will post links here and on our social media pages in the days leading up to the event\, and we’ll send the links to all who register on Eventbrite. Advance registration is not required to join this event. \nIn conjunction with these events\, the Bureau’s online store now features a section devoted to titles recommended by Reclaim Pride Coalition members–click here to view. \n  \nPanelists’ biographies: \nChidi Adeyemi (they/them) is a Black nonbinary babe currently organizing with the Reclaim Pride Coalition (RPC)\, a collection of LGBTQIA2S+ folks organizing our third annual Queer Liberation March with no corporate sponsors and no NYPD control. They are also a volunteer operator with Trans Lifeline\, a peer-support crisis hotline for trans callers that emphasizes harm-reduction and sharing resources\, and does not allow nonconsensual active rescue. Chidi believes police place people at risk\, especially callers who are poor\, people of colour\, sick and/or diabled; and that laying the groundwork for support without the risk of nonconsensual intervention saves lives. For three years\, Chidi was a leader of Queer Union (an NYU activist organization)\, where they worked to support trans and GNC communties with campaigns for trans inclusive healthcare and classrooms\, All Gender Clothing Swaps\, and QTBIPOC Wellness events. In their free time\, Chidi loves to care for their plants\, drink endless cups of tea\, and read the pick for their weekly book club\, The Reading Rainbow Revolution. \n  \nNomi Isaac (awaiting bio) \n  \nVicky Osterweil (she/her) is a writer\, editor\, and agitator and a regular contributor to The New Inquiry. Her writing has also appeared in The Baffler\, The Nation\, The Rumpus\, Real Life\, and Al Jazeera America. \n  \nMatthew Perry (he/they) currently organizes with the Richmond Community Bail Fund (RCBF)\, a non-hierarchical volunteer-run nonprofit they helped to start in 2017 which posts bail for anyone who needs it in the Richmond\, VA region\, and broadly works to reduce the life-destructive harm caused by pretrial incarceration. RCBF engages with bail fund work through an abolitionist lens\, which means posting bail for people regardless of their charge\, and recognizing that ending cash bail alone isn’t enough because the anti-black\, anti-poor\, anti-trans violence it reflects will not end until systems of policing and incarceration themselves are overthrown. \nMatthew understands abolition as the work of building a world where we rely on mutual aid\, harm reduction\, and transformative justice-informed violence intervention—not cops and cages—to deliver safety and justice\, and thinks bail funds can be a great way to begin materializing this world. They are leaving RCBF at the end of this summer to pursue an MA in Experimental Humanities at NYU\, and can’t wait to get re-involved with the vast (and growing) amount of abolitionist organizing happening in New York. When they’re not doing bail fund work\, they love reading novels\, playing soccer\, and petting cats. \n  \nJennifer Love Williams (she/her) is a formerly incarcerated black transwoman\, an Entertainer and an Activist. She’s the Foundress the Jen Love Project and serves as Co-Chair of the formerly incarcerated subgroup of the National LGBT/HIV Criminal Justice Working Group. She also does work with The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls. (Photo credit: Jose Ramon Photography) \n  \n*Watch recordings of the previous two panels on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nNo Place to Call Home: Queer and Trans Houselessness\, 2021\, took place on April 15\, 2021. \nGenerations of Queer Activism took place on April 27\, 2021.
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SUMMARY:Four Authors Celebrate Transgender and Non-Binary Children
DESCRIPTION:  \nFour authors from Los Angeles\, Brooklyn\, and Malmö and Stockholm\, Sweden respectively will discuss new books they’ve each published for and about trans and non-binary children\, and the personal experiences that inspired their creations. \n  \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom link on the day of the event. \nClosed-captioning will be available. \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $5. \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. \nClick here to register\n  \nPurchase any of the following titles before or on Saturday\, May 8th\, 2021\, and receive 25% off! \nCamilla Gisslow‘s Perfectly Linus\, Perfectly Bella\, and Perfectly Charlie\, each $11.99 (regularly $15.99 each) \nRis iRAWniQ Anderson‘s Charlie’s Best Work Yet\, $12.74 (regularly $16.99) \nJodie Patterson‘s Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope \, $13.49 (regularly $17.99) \nMarcus Tallberg and Emma Björck’s My Teen Queer Life\, $14.24 (regularly $18.99) \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nParticipant biographies: \nCamilla Gisslow: “My journey began when my child came out in 1997 at the age of four and a half. He clearly explained to me one evening that he was not a girl\, but a boy\,” says Swedish author\, transgender and LGBTQ+ rights activist\, educator and filmmaker Camilla Gisslow. She is the author of the “Perfectly Me” trans children’s book series\, Perfectly Linus\, Perfectly Bella\, and Perfectly Charlie—three sweet coming out stories in which each child asserts their chosen gender identity\, which is then celebrated with a party at school for their new names. In 2018 she directed the documentary\, “Save Our Lives\,” which shares the lives of three families which have embraced their trans children since they came out. (A link and password to view the film will be shared at the close of the May 8th event.) Camilla is the founder of Trans-Forming\, a consulting company that offers trans and LGBTQ+ sensitivity training. She lives in Malmö\, Sweden. www.transforming.se \n  \nRis iRAWniQ Anderson (RAW)\, is the author of Charlie’s Best Work Yet\, a beautifully illustrated children’s book about an artistic\, androgynous grade school girl\, who thanks to a fellow student\, discovers and then finds strength in her newfound hero\, Grace Jones. RAW is a non-binary masculine-identified author\, alternative musician\, voice over artist and actor and “momma to my 12 year old shy\, yet brilliant boy.” They are based in Los Angeles. More about iRAWniQ here. @irawniq \n  \nJodie Patterson is the author of The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformation and was Family Circle magazine’s Most Influential Mom in 2018. She is the mother of five children\, two of whom are self-proclaimed gender nonconformists–one transgender and another genderqueer. Jodie was inspired to write Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope to show how an entire community can be flexible and change for those they love. Jodie raises her family in Brooklyn\, New York. www.georgiany.com. \n  \nMarcus Tallberg is the founder of Stockholm-based rainbow media publishing company\, Tallbergs Förlag\, which has released nearly 40 LGBTQ novels\, YA and children’s titles\, as well as Camilla Gisslow’s “Save Our Lives” documentary. Late 2020/early 2021 the house released eight titles in North America\, including Camilla Gisslow’s “Perfectly Me” series and the semi-autobiographical\, My Queer Teen Life\, by Marcus Tallberg and Emma Björck. Marcus and Tallbergs Förlag is based in Stockholm. www.tallbergsforlag.se \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:2021 Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists Readings
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau is thrilled to host two nights of online readings by Publishing Triangle Awards finalists! \nOn Monday\, May 10\, and Tuesday\, May 11\, the Publishing Triangle will hold its seventh Finalists Reading (in two parts)\, featuring 17 nominees for the Publishing Triangle awards. This sterling batch of LGBT authors will read excerpts from their books\, which represent the best in LGBT writing published in 2020\, on the nights before our awards are announced. \nReadings begin at 7 PM EDT on both Monday\, May 10\, and Tuesday\, May 11. \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the links you need to join the events. Registration is for BOTH readings. \nThese virtual readings are FREE\, but donations to support the Bureau are always welcome! You can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. Thank you for your support! \nOn the mornings of May 10th and May 11th\, you will receive an email with the appropriate link for that night’s event on Zoom.* \nClick here to register for both readings\n  \nAll of the Publishing Triangle Awards finalists are available for purchase on the Bureau’s online store. Click on any title below to view or click here to view all finalists by category. \n25% off all Publishing Triangle Awards finalists with this code: FGKXL9GEX0YM \nThis code is good for a single use on Publishing Triangle Awards finalists titles only\, but you can purchase as many of these titles as you like! So take advantage of this limited-time offer and fill up your cart! Enter the discount code (below the total) when you check out. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nMonday\, May 10\nMark Bibbins\, 13th Balloon (Copper Canyon Press) – Finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry \nS. Brook Corfman\, My Daily Actions\, or The Meteorites (Fordham University Press) – Finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature \nJameson Fitzpatrick \, Pricks in the Tapestry (Birds\, LLC) – Finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry \nSarah M. Sala\, Devil’s Lake (Tolsun Books) – Finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry \nJulia Serano\, 99 Erics: A Kat Cataclysm Faux Novel (Switch Hitter Press) – Finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction \nJenn Shapland \, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (Tin House) – Finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction \nRoss A. Slotten\, Plague Years: A Doctor’s Journey Through the AIDS Crisis (University of Chicago Press) – Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction \nBishakh Som\, Apsara Engine (Feminist Press) – Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction \nJulie Marie Wade\, Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing (Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press) – Finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction \n  \nTuesday\, May 11\nEllen Bass\, Indigo (Copper Canyon Press) – Finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry \nJohn Birdsall\, The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard (W. W. Norton) – Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction \nTommye Blount\, Fantasia for the Man in Blue (Four Way Books) – Finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry \nEric Cervini\, The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux) – Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction \nJuliana Delgado Lopera\, Fiebre Tropical (Feminist Press) – Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction \nfrancine j. harris\, Here Is the Sweet Hand (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux) – Finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry \nNatalie Diaz\, Postcolonial Love Poem (Graywolf Press) – Finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry \nSophie Yanow\, The Contradictions (Drawn and Quarterly) – Finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction \n  \n*If you do not see the email on the day of the event\, please check your email settings\, your Spam box\, and/or your promotions and social tabs. If you’re having any trouble\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. \n  \nThe Publishing Triangle is a group of queer folks who work to further the publication of books and other materials written by LGBTQ authors or with LGBTQ themes. \nWe come from all types of backgrounds. We are on staff and we’re freelancers. We are editors\, agents\, and booksellers; we work in sub rights\, publicity\, sales\, design\, and production. Many of us are writers. We are also librarians\, teachers\, booksellers\, and even avid readers who don’t work in a publishing-related field. \nOur primary method of shining a much-needed light on queer books is through our awards program. We give out ten awards annually (at an awards ceremony\, usually in April at the New School in Manhattan)\, each with a cash prize of between $500 and $3000. Seven of these awards honor the best books published in the previous calendar year in nonfiction\, fiction\, poetry\, and trans/gender-variant literature. There is a lifetime achievement award and an emerging-writer award; and we also honor a book-industry figure each year (not a writer) with our leadership award. \nThrough our social media and our newsletter—as well as through readings\, social networking events\, and other programs in the New York City area—we strive to promote a sense of camaraderie in the queer literary community. \nMembership dues start at $40 a year for individuals (there are additional levels of membership for families and businesses). For more details\, see our membership page. \nIf you have additional questions about the Triangle and its programs\, please email us at info@publishingtriangle.org or write us at the address listed below. \n  \nThe Publishing Triangle \n511 Avenue of the Americas\, #D36 \nNew York\, NY 10011
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SUMMARY:2021 Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists Readings
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau is thrilled to host two nights of online readings by Publishing Triangle Awards finalists! \nOn Monday\, May 10\, and Tuesday\, May 11\, the Publishing Triangle will hold its seventh Finalists Reading (in two parts)\, featuring 17 nominees for the Publishing Triangle awards. This sterling batch of LGBT authors will read excerpts from their books\, which represent the best in LGBT writing published in 2020\, on the nights before our awards are announced. \nReadings begin at 7 PM EDT on both Monday\, May 10\, and Tuesday\, May 11. \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the links you need to join the events. Registration is for BOTH readings. \nThese virtual readings are FREE\, but donations to support the Bureau are always welcome! You can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. Thank you for your support! \nOn the mornings of May 10th and May 11th\, you will receive an email with the appropriate link for that night’s event on Zoom.* \nClick here to register for both readings\n  \nAll of the Publishing Triangle Awards finalists are available for purchase on the Bureau’s online store. Click on any title below to view or click here to view all finalists by category. \n25% off all Publishing Triangle Awards finalists with this discount code: FGKXL9GEX0YM \nThis code is good for a single use on Publishing Triangle Awards finalists titles only\, but you can purchase as many of these titles as you like! So take advantage of this limited-time offer and fill up your cart! Enter the discount code (below the total) when you check out. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nMonday\, May 10\nMark Bibbins\, 13th Balloon (Copper Canyon Press) – Finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry \nS. Brook Corfman\, My Daily Actions\, or The Meteorites (Fordham University Press) – Finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature \nJameson Fitzpatrick \, Pricks in the Tapestry (Birds\, LLC) – Finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry \nSarah M. Sala\, Devil’s Lake (Tolsun Books) – Finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry \nJulia Serano\, 99 Erics: A Kat Cataclysm Faux Novel (Switch Hitter Press) – Finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction \nJenn Shapland \, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (Tin House) – Finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction \nRoss A. Slotten\, Plague Years: A Doctor’s Journey Through the AIDS Crisis (University of Chicago Press) – Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction \nBishakh Som\, Apsara Engine (Feminist Press) – Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction \nJulie Marie Wade\, Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing (Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press) – Finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction \n  \nTuesday\, May 11\nEllen Bass\, Indigo (Copper Canyon Press) – Finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry \nJohn Birdsall\, The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard (W. W. Norton) – Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction \nTommye Blount\, Fantasia for the Man in Blue (Four Way Books) – Finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry \nEric Cervini\, The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux) – Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction \nJuliana Delgado Lopera\, Fiebre Tropical (Feminist Press) – Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction \nfrancine j. harris\, Here Is the Sweet Hand (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux) – Finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry \nNatalie Diaz\, Postcolonial Love Poem (Graywolf Press) – Finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry \nSophie Yanow\, The Contradictions (Drawn and Quarterly) – Finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction \n  \n*If you do not see the email on the day of the event\, please check your email settings\, your Spam box\, and/or your promotions and social tabs. If you’re having any trouble\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. \n  \nThe Publishing Triangle is a group of queer folks who work to further the publication of books and other materials written by LGBTQ authors or with LGBTQ themes. \nWe come from all types of backgrounds. We are on staff and we’re freelancers. We are editors\, agents\, and booksellers; we work in sub rights\, publicity\, sales\, design\, and production. Many of us are writers. We are also librarians\, teachers\, booksellers\, and even avid readers who don’t work in a publishing-related field. \nOur primary method of shining a much-needed light on queer books is through our awards program. We give out ten awards annually (at an awards ceremony\, usually in April at the New School in Manhattan)\, each with a cash prize of between $500 and $3000. Seven of these awards honor the best books published in the previous calendar year in nonfiction\, fiction\, poetry\, and trans/gender-variant literature. There is a lifetime achievement award and an emerging-writer award; and we also honor a book-industry figure each year (not a writer) with our leadership award. \nThrough our social media and our newsletter—as well as through readings\, social networking events\, and other programs in the New York City area—we strive to promote a sense of camaraderie in the queer literary community. \nMembership dues start at $40 a year for individuals (there are additional levels of membership for families and businesses). For more details\, see our membership page. \nIf you have additional questions about the Triangle and its programs\, please email us at info@publishingtriangle.org or write us at the address listed below. \n  \nThe Publishing Triangle \n511 Avenue of the Americas\, #D36 \nNew York\, NY 10011
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SUMMARY:Sexual Hegemony: Max Fox in conversation with Hannah Black and Kay Gabriel
DESCRIPTION:  \nChristopher Chitty’s posthumous Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft\, Sodomy and Capital in the Rise of the World System was published in 2020. Join editor Max Fox for a conversation with Hannah Black and Kay Gabriel to discuss its genesis and meaning for the queer marxist project of liberation. \n  \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom link on the day of the event. \nClosed-captioning will be available. \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $5. \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. \nClick here to register\n\nPurchase Sexual Hegemony before or on Thursday\, May 13th\, 2021\, and receive 25% off!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft\, Sodomy and Capital in the Rise of the World System : \nIn Sexual Hegemony Christopher Chitty traces the five-hundred year history of capitalist sexual relations by excavating the class dynamics of the bourgeoisie’s attempts to regulate homosexuality. Tracking the politicization of male homosexuality in Renaissance Florence\, Amsterdam\, Paris\, and London between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries\, as well as twentieth-century New York City\, Chitty shows how sexuality became a crucial dimension of the accumulation of capital and a technique of bourgeois rule. \nWhether policing male sodomy during the Medici rule in Florence or accusing the French aristocracy of monstrous sexuality in the wake of the French Revolution\, the bourgeoisie weaponized both sexual constraint and sexual freedom in order to produce and control a reliable and regimented labor class and subordinate it to civil society and the state. Only by grasping sexuality as a field of social contention and the site of class conflict\, Chitty contends\, can we embark on a politics that destroys sexuality as a tool and an effect of power and open a front against the forces that keep us unfree. \nBook cover art: Jesse Mockrin\, Some Unknown Power\, 2018\, Oil on linen\, 26 × 18 in (66 × 45.7 cm)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210514T190000
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SUMMARY:Office Hours Poetry Spring 2021 Showcase Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us Friday May 14th at 7:00 PM EDT for the Office Hours Spring 2021 (Virtual) Showcase Reading! Our current fellows will give a brief reading in celebration of another strong semester of poetry making\, community building\, and surviving in difficult creative times. \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom link on the day of the event. \nClosed-captioning will be available. \nSuggested donation to benefit Office Hours Poetry Workshop: $5 – $10 \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. \nClick here to register\n  \nCarrie Hohmann Campbell is the author of the chapbooks Drawn to Extinction (Finishing Line Press) and incongruent: someday (dancing girl press). She has degrees from Allegheny College and New York University. She and her family live in northwestern Pennsylvania where she precariously balances teaching creative writing at Edinboro University\, homesteading\, and writing. \n  \nLaura Cresté is the author of 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 her poems have appeared in journals including No Tokens\, Tinderbox\, Breakwater Review\, and Bodega. In Fall 2021\, she will be a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. \n  \nLinda Harris Dolan is a poet\, editor\, and educator. As a teaching artist at NYU Langone’s Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital\, she holds one-on-one writing sessions with pediatric patients. She earned an MFA in Poetry from NYU\, where she was a Starworks Creative Writing Fellow\, and an MA in English & American Literature from NYU. Her work appears in Barrow Street\, The Brooklyn Review\, Cordella\, and Breakwater Review\, among others\, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. \n  \nJ. Freeborn is a teacher and the anthology books managing editor at The Poetry Society of New York. \n  \nEmily Hockaday is the author of four chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals\, and\, along with Jackie Sherbow\, she coedited the anthology Terror at the Crossroads. She can be found on the web at www.emilyhockaday.com and @E_Hockaday. \n  \nPaco Márquez is author of Portraits in G Minor (Folded Word Press\, 2017). His poems can be found in Fence\, Apogee\, Live Mag! and Huizache. Originally from León\, Mexico\, Paco has spent most of his life in Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area. Find out more at: pacomarquez.net \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\, Holly received an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. Holly’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Afternoon Visitor\, Fence magazine’s digital series Elecment\, and No\, Dear\, among other publications. \n  \nJames Fujinami Moore‘s debut collection indecent hours is forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2022. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Barrow Street’s 4×2\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Guesthouse\, The Margins\, the Pacifica Literary Review\, and Prelude. He has received support from Poets House\, Bread Loaf\, and the Frost Place\, and received his MFA from Hunter College in 2016. He lives in Los Angeles\, and online at jamesfujinamimoore.com. \n  \nSarah M. Sala is a queer poet of Polish-Lebanese descent. Her debut collection\, Devil’s Lake is now out from Tolsun Books. She is the founder of the free poetry workshop\, Office Hours\, and Co-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  \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  \nAvia Tadmor was born in Israel. Her poems appeared in New England Review\, the Adroit Journal\, Crab Orchard Review\, Apogee\, Nashville Review\, and elsewhere. She received support from the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Avia holds a BA from Harvard University and an MFA from Columbia University. She lives in New York. \n 
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LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T180000
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SUMMARY:TELL 73: Animals
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. \nAnimals is the theme of the 73rd TELL\, on Saturday\, May 15\, 2021\, 6 to 7:30 PM (EDT). Featuring: Rawya El Chab\, Kenny Hahn\, and Fernando Vieira. \nThe event will take place on Zoom. \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom meeting link on the day of the event. \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the storytellers and the Bureau. \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. \nClick here to register\n  \nPhotograph by Grace Chu\nDrae Campbell is an actor and performer who has appeared on stages all over NYC and on the internet\, movies and tv.  She’s been spotted on the tv shows New Amsterdam and Bull and on the web series Dinette directed by Shaina Feinberg. She can also be found online on Refinery29\, IFC.Com and BRICTV to name a few. Some fave stage acting credits: Only You Can Prevent Wildfires\, Ricochet Collective\, Non-Consensual Relationships With Ghosts\, La Mama\, My Old Man\, Dixon Place\, Oph3lia at HERE\, The Nosebleed at The Public Theatre. Drae also appeared as a radical lesbian in Taylor Mac’s 24 Decade History Of Popular Music at St. Ann’s Warehouse. Drae’s been hosting and curating TELL at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division for 7 plus years. If you like  queer stories\, TELL is also a Podcast! www.draecampbell.com \n  \nRawya El Chab is a Brooklyn-based performance artist and theater-maker from Beirut\, Lebanon. A multidisciplinary storyteller\, Rawya’s career trajectory combines classical training in theatre with contemporary art and community engagement\, with extensive experiences in physical\, interactive\, and street interventions. She has performed in major productions\, working with leading theatre and cinema directors in Lebanon. Coming of age in the aftermath of the Civil War in Beirut\, she has come to understand and experience theater and art as a critical space and practice where the state of emergency is suspended to give place for social\, ethical and aesthetic reflections. Her philosophy and vision emphasize the democratization of the tools of theater as a means to respond and dismantle oppression and the reclaiming of public space as an extension of art-practice. Her process is immersed in ludic practices\, engaging with ideas and concepts\, and developing performances as a social commentary. Since she moved to New York in 2018\, she has joined the Target Margin Theater working on several projects. She’s currently writing\, directing and performing a piece\, in collaboration with Aline Salloum\, titled The Meltdown\, that will feature during the Global Forms Festival at the Rattlestick Theater\, on the 3d of June 2021. \n  \n \nKenny Hahn (he/She) is a queer actor\, playwright\, director\, devised theatre-maker\, comedian\, and passionate pie-maker. His play\, Love Me Tender\, premiered at the Wild Project Theater in September 2018\, he performed at NYWinterfest 2019 and the Prague Fringe Festival 2019 with the show “In The Woods Where the Men Work\, and he will be competing in this years YAAASFest Comedy Festival at the Broadway Comedy Club. Her pies can be tasted at any Hahn family dinner\, or if she likes you\, your family dinner. \nInstagram: @kennythehahn \n  \n \nFernando Vieira is an Ecuadorian born\, New York-based writer\, director\, and performer. Most of his works document the effect of heteronormativity and misogyny on the lives of women and queer individuals. In 2016\, he debuted as a playwright with the monologue “Me voy porque puedo\,” (I’m leaving because I can)\, which he also directed. His latest play “Goodbye\, Little George\,” explores the subject of gender identity and homophobia. He recently debuted a documented performance titled “Unlabeled”\, where he discusses life as a queer non-conforming person. Vieira has been part of artistic cohorts at institutions such as NYFA\, Creative Capital\, and Leslie-Lohman Museum. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210521T180000
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SUMMARY:Radical Black Love
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin Francesca Barjon\, Jade Bryan\, Jaysen Henderson-Greenbey\, Anesu Nyatanga\, Junauda Petrus\, & Hari Ziyad to talk about Radical Black Love \nRadical Black love has developed a Black political movement focused on mutual care. Radical Black love requires that we are concerned for and responsible to one another. In an anti-Black world such as this\, to choose to love and support Black people is a highly rebellious and potentially dangerous act. In this panel\, activists and authors will explore what Radical Black love means to them and how it sparks imaginations of a free world for us all. \nRadical Black Love is the fourth in a series of five virtual events* presented by Reclaim Pride Coalition and the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division in the weeks leading up to the Queer Liberation March\, on Sunday\, June 27th\, 2021.  \nFREE event! \nYou can livestream this event on the Bureau’s or Reclaim Pride Coalition’s Facebook pages or YouTube channels. You’ve got options! Registration is not required in order to join the event. Click on any of the links below to join us tonight\, Friday\, May 21\, 2021\, at 6 PM EDT: \nReclaim Pride Coalition’s FB page: https://www.facebook.com/queermarch/posts/3105235273042357 \nThe Bureau’s FB page: https://www.facebook.com/BGSQD/posts/3956243421137943 \nThe Bureau’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QluJxMrES04 \nRPC’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2PNybs0Vpg \nIn conjunction with these events\, the Bureau’s online store now features a section devoted to titles recommended by Reclaim Pride Coalition members–click here to view recommended books on radical Black love. \n  \nPanelists’ biographies: \nFrancesca R. Barjon (she/her) is a Haitian-American community organizer and screenwriter based in NY. Francesca’s writing and perspective is informed by her experience as a Black bisexual woman organizing the Queer Liberation March in NYC. She focuses on bridging cultural gaps and facilitating difficult conversations while empowering Black people\, LGBTQIATS+ people\, disabled people and other marginalized groups. She lives by the tenet “none are free\, until all are free” and strives to practice radical empathy in building relationships and community. Lastly\, as a healthcare consultant\, Francesca has considered how social determinants of health impact the LGBTQIATS+ community and make members vulnerable to various physical and mental health issues. \n  \nJade Bryan (she/her) graduated with a BFA degree in film production from one of the world’s top film schools at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Jade founded DeafVision Filmworks\, Inc. and Jade Films and Entertainment\, LLC\, and has produced and directed such award-winning documentaries as “Listen to the Hands of Our People”\, ”On and Off Stage: The Bruce Hlibok Stories”\, “9/11 Fear in Silence: The Forgotten Underdogs” and “Reaching Zenith: A Black Deaf Filmmaker’s Journey.” \nJade completed her first feature\, “If Your Could Hear My Own Tune”\, which toured the festival circuit from 2010-2012. She worked tirelessly on the film for nine (9) years\, which she produced in 2001. Jade in talks about producing it into a musical play (staged reading) this summer/fall of 2018. The new title is “Feel My Song.” \n“The Shattered Mind” is her most recent feature film she completed in 2014 and toured 47 film festivals around the globe. “The Shattered Mind” won 17 awards; included Best Sound\, Audience Award\, Special Jury Prize\, Best Exhibition Film and Best Narrative Feature and Short. \nOne of Jade’s projects\, “The Two Essences”\, a comedy sitcom pilot\, will be her first television series. She is also pitching another pilot\, “The Innocent Project\,” about deaf females hero complex. And she is also working on a documentary\, “Black and Deaf in America”\, about various issues regarding deaf (African-Americans) who were impacted by police brutality\, racism\, black erasure and oppression in the educational system. \nJade believes in promoting inclusion\, awareness\, and positive representation of Deaf Talent of Color in television and film. She created the #DeafTalent® Movement on social media in 2012. \n  \nJaysen Henderson-Greenbey (they/them) is a NYU Gallatin alum and former leader of NYU’s Queer Union\, a position they held for three years. Their undergraduate concentration\, “Storytelling from the Margins: Black Women’s Narratives\,” explored themes of blackness\, queerness\, and marginality in literature\, film\, and music. Jaysen is a writer whose work explores the intersections of race\, sexuality\, and gender. \n  \nAnesu Nyatanga (he/him) studied Social & Cultural Analysis at New York University’s college of arts and science\, and he believes in using an intersectional framework to support marginalized individuals in a variety of capacities. He worked with the New York City’s Mayor’s Office of Operations and Civic Engagement Commission. Here he coordinated interpretation services for limited-English proficient voters during NYC elections. While at NYU\, he served as the Vice-Chair for the Student Senators Council and as a Senator-at-Large for Black and Trans students. He was the inaugural Gender & Sexuality Chair of the Governance Council for Marginalized and Minority Students\, which serves to unify and provide a channel of access to institutional bodies between all student organizations and committees in the Global Network. Additionally\, he was one of the thought leaders for Shades\, a student group for LGBTQ people of color. On his days off\, Anesu loves to weight lift\, go to the movies\, and argue about pop culture icons with his friends. \n  \nJunauda Petrus-Nasah (she/her) is a writer\, a soul sweetener\, runaway witch\, and performance artist of Black-Caribbean descent\, born and working on unceded Dakota land in Minneapolis\, Minnesota. Her work centers around wildness\, queerness\, Black-diasporic-futurism\, ancestral healing\, sweetness\, shimmer and liberation. Her first YA novel\, The Stars and The Blackness Between Them received a Coretta Scott King Honor Award. And she really\, really loves to eat and write about delicious food. She is the co-founder with Erin Sharkey of Free Black Dirt\, a Black\, experimental healing art collective. She is currently working on her second novel Black Circus\, set in the 90s about a young\, Black woman studying circus with a mysterious elder former circus performer. \n  \nHari Ziyad (they/them) is a screenwriter\, the editor-in-chief of RaceBaitr\, and the bestselling author of Black Boy Out of Time (2021). They are a 2021 Lambda Literary Fellow\, and their writing has been featured in Vanity Fair\, Gawker\, Out\, The Guardian\, Huffington Post\, Ebony\, Mic\, Slate and Salon among other publications. \n  \n*Watch recordings of the previous three RPC/Bureau panels on the Bureau’s YouTube channel (click on links to view): \nNo Place to Call Home: Queer and Trans Houselessness\, 2021\, took place on April 15\, 2021. \nGenerations of Queer Activism took place on April 27\, 2021. \nWe Keep Us Safe: Prison Abolition and Transformative Justice took place on May 7\, 2021. \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:IN WAVES AND WAVES ::: MOVEMENT//MEANING//PRESENCE THROUGH SPACE
DESCRIPTION:Join the Office Hours Community for a Craft Class and Reading with poet Nicole Wallace. Through a series of generative prompts and readings she’ll guide you to write new work and engage with the world. \n  \nSuggested donation is $10 (but not required). All donations go directly to the course instructor. Writers of all backgrounds welcome. You can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. \nClick here to register\nIN WAVES AND WAVES ::: MOVEMENT//MEANING//PRESENCE THROUGH SPACE \nA craft writing workshop with Nicole Wallace centering on the possibilities space holds within our writing — through our words\, formatting\, and language(s) — to expand\, disrupt\, and transform movement\, meaning\, and presence. We will consider the ways written work translates into the spoken and vice versa and spend time locating the way our words/work exists in the expanse of space\, time\, and language. \n  \nNicole Wallace is the author of the chapbook\, WAASAMOWIN (IMP\, 2019). Most recently\, Nicole was the June/July 2020 poetry micro-resident at Running Dog and was a 2019 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow. They are a member of the Indigenous Kinship Collective and Managing Director of The Poetry Project. Recent work can be read in print in Survivance: Indigenous Poesis Vol. IV Zine and online at Running Dog\, A Perfect Vacuum\, and LitHub. Originally from Gakaabikaang\, located in Minnesota\, Nicole is of mixed settler/European ancestry and is a descendent of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (Ojibwe). They currently live and make work on unceded\, occupied Canarsee and Lenape territory (Brooklyn\, NY). \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.
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SUMMARY:Maurice Sendak in Queer Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Join Golan Moskowitz as he reads to us from his new book\, Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context (2020)\, and converses with leading scholars Jack Halberstam and Kenneth Kidd about the book’s implications for queer studies. \nMaurice Sendak (1928–2012)\, best known for his Where the Wild Things Are (1963)\, was a fierce\, romantic\, and shockingly funny truth seeker who intervened in modern literature and culture. Raising the stakes of children’s books\, he painted childhood with the dark realism and wild imagination of his own sensitive “inner child\,” drawing on the queer and Jewish sensibilities that shaped his singular voice. Interweaving literary biography and cultural history\, Wild Visionary follows Sendak from his parents’ Brooklyn home to spaces of creative growth and artistic vision—from neighborhood movie palaces to Hell’s Kitchen\, Greenwich Village\, Fire Island\, and the Connecticut country home he shared with Eugene Glynn\, his partner of more than fifty years. Moskowitz analyzes Sendak’s investment in the figure of the endangered child in symbolic relation to collective touchstones that impacted the artist’s perspective—the Great Depression\, the Holocaust\, and the AIDS crisis. \n  \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom link on the day of the event. \nClosed-captioning will be available. \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $5. \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. \n\nClick here to register\n\n  \nPurchase Golan Y. Moskowitz’s Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context on or before Thursday\, May 27th\, 2021\, and receive 25% off: $26.25 (regularly $35) \n  \nParticipant biographies: \nJack Halberstam is Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of seven books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP\, 1995)\, Female Masculinity (Duke UP\, 1998)\, In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press\, 2005)\, The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP\, 2011)\, Gaga Feminism: Sex\, Gender\, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press\, 2012)\, and a short book titled Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (University of California Press). Halberstam’s latest book\, 2020 from Duke UP is titled Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Places Journal awarded Halberstam its Arcus/Places Prize in 2018 for innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender\, sexuality and the built environment. Halberstam is now finishing a second volume on wildness titled: The Wild Beyond: Music\, Architecture and Anarchy. \n  \nKenneth Kidd is Professor of English at the University of Florida\, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Center for Children’s Literature and Culture. He’s the author of three monographs\,Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral Tale;Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature; and Theory for Beginners: Children’s Literature as Critical Thought. He has co-editedWild Things: Children’s Culture and Ecocriticism; Over the Rainbow: Queer Children’s and Young Adult Literature; Prizing Children’s Literature: The Cultural Politics of Children’s Book Awards; and Queer as Camp: Essays on Summer\, Style\, and Sexuality. With Elizabeth Marshall he co-edits the Routledge series Children’s Literature and Culture. \n  \nGolan Moskowitz is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane University\, where he teaches courses on Jewish gender and sexuality\, American pop culture\, Holocaust studies\, and comics and graphic novels. He is the author of Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context (Stanford University Press\, 2020) and of several publications on intergenerational memory in post-Holocaust family narratives. \n  \n 
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LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210528T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210528T193000
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Ned Katz talks: The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams
DESCRIPTION:Historian Jonathan Ned Katz discusses his biography of the spirited\, resistant\, Jewish\, lesbian\, immigrant\, pioneer\, deported from the U.S.\, who experienced the Nazis’ reign of terror. Published May 18\, 2021\, by Chicago Review Press. \n  \nRegistration on this page is required in order to receive the Zoom link on the day of the event. \nClosed-captioning will be available. \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $5. \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nYou can make a donation when you register on this page. \n  \nPurchase The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams before or on Friday\, May 28th\, 2021\, and receive 25% off! $22.50 (regularly $30). \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!\nJonathan Ned Katz is the author of four pioneering books on the US history of LGBTQ life\, sexuality\, and intimacy. He is the founder of OutHistory.org\, and he has taught and spoken at Yale\, Harvard\, and Princeton. He is also the recipient of the Magnus Hirschfeld Medal for outstanding contributions to sex research and Yale University’s Brudner Prize\, among many accolades.
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LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jackie Ess In Conversation With Torrey Peters
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for an author talk and Q&A with Jackie Ess and Torrey Peters (Detransition\, Baby) to discuss Jackie’s new book\, DARRYL. \n“Underneath the sharp satire and hilarious sexual irreverence this is a deadly serious book: a brilliant novel of a seeker\, like The Pilgrim’s Progress refracted by queer internet culture.” —Torrey Peters\, author of Detransition\, Baby: a novel \n  \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom link on the day of the event. \nClosed-captioning will be available. \nSuggested donation to support the Bureau’s work: $5 \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. \nClick here to register\n  \nPurchase Darryl and/or Detransition\, Baby on or before May 29\, 2021 and receive 25% off! \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\n\n\n \n  \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nJackie Ess is a writer\, cultural mischief-maker\, and minor internet celebrity. A co-founder of the Bay Area Trans Writers Workshop\, her work can be found in Heavy Feather Review\, the Zahir\, the New Inquiry\, Vetch\, and the anthology We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics. Darryl is her first novel. Find her on Twitter @Jackie_Ess. \n  \nTorrey Peters is an American author. Her debut novel\, Detransition\, Baby\, is one of the first written by a trans woman to be issued by the big-five publishing houses\, Penguin Random House\, and has received mainstream and critical success. The novel has been nominated for the prestigious 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/jackie-ess-in-conversation-with-torrey-peters/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:LOOKING IN A 50+ YEARS GAY-CENTERED REAR VIEW MIRROR:
DESCRIPTION:For over a half-century continuously\, Don Kilhefner\, Ph.D. has been a radical\, gay\, community organizer and forward-thinking\, gay-centered ideologue in Los Angeles\, nationally and internationally. \nTHEN: \nMember of the first Peace Corps to go to Ethiopia \nCo-founded L.A.’s Gay Community Services Center\, the world’s largest \nCo-organized L.A.’s first Gay Freedom Day (Pride) marches \nCo-founded the Radical Faeries\, an international gay-centered spiritual and consciousness movement \nCo-founded the Gay Elder Circle of Los Angeles \nOrganized hundreds of community-based conferences and workshops \n  \nNOW: \nGay community-based shaman \nJungian depth psychologist \nWriter for LA Progressive \nQueer eldering and intergenerational consciousness \nCollaborating with his biographer\, August Bernadicou\, both true homos who have been around every block! \n  \nA RARE & EXCITING EVENING OF GAY CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING AND LOWERING \nClosed-captioning will be available. \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom link on the day of the event\, Sunday\, May 30th. \nSuggested donation $5 to benefit The LGBTQ History Project Inc. and the Bureau. \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. \nClick here to register\n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/looking-in-a-50-years-gay-centered-rear-view-mirror/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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