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SUMMARY:Craft Class and Reading with Laura Esther Wolfson
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin the Office Hours Community for a Craft Class and Reading with Laura Esther Wolfson! \nTranslating a Poem\, Translating the World\nNo foreign language knowledge required. All levels welcome. \nIn this course\, we will look at multiple English translations of an eight-line Russian poem\, Я вас любил (“I Loved You”)\, by Alexander Pushkin\, as a jumping-off point to ponder how slight shifts in word choice and emphasis change how the reader perceives a piece of writing and how all writing is a form of translation—of the world. No foreign language knowledge required. All levels welcome. \nThe course will also include freewheeling excursions into two of Laura’s adjacent obsessions: Russian literature and literary translation. \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. \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom link on the morning of Thursday\, June 17th. \nClick here to register\n  \nLaura Esther Wolfson‘s debut essay collection\, FOR SINGLE MOTHERS WORKING AS TRAIN CONDUCTORS\, was awarded the 2017 Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction and published by the University of Iowa Press in 2018. She is currently working on her second book\, entitled SUPER-PRICEY ROYAL BLUE FRENCH LACE BRA. \nHer writing has been honored with the 2017 Notting Hill Essay Prize\, \npublished in leading literary venues on both sides of the Atlantic\, and cited in The Best American Essays. She is a Fellow at MacDowell (2018) and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2017). She holds an MFA from the New School and lives in New York City. \nShe served for many years as the interpreter for Russian-speaking authors at the PEN World Voices Festival and as a PEN prison writing mentor. She has had a long career as an interpreter and translator\, working from Russian\, French and Spanish to English. Laura translated Stalin’s Secret Pogrom (Yale University Press\, 2001)\, on the events leading up to the Night of the Murdered Poets. The book went on to win the National Jewish Book Award for Eastern European history. https://lauraestherwolfson.com/
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SUMMARY:LIFELINES: Art\, Intimacy\, and HIV—an Intergenerational Conversation
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join artist Eric Rhein\, in conversation with Jonathan Coleman and Paul Michael Brown as they celebrate and reflect upon the themes that run through Eric’s first monograph-memoir\, ERIC RHEIN: LIFELINES —which includes a key essay by Paul Michael Brown. \nERIC RHEIN: LIFELINES is the first monograph devoted to the artist. It features intimate photographs taken between 1989 and 2012. These compelling images highlight tenderness and care as lifesaving instincts. Included in the book are related bodies of work: delicate assemblages and wire drawings that often serve as memorials for fallen friends. \nEric\, Jon\, and Paul will discuss the overlapping contexts in which they came of-age—and how they emerged\, matured\, and created within an era of crisis. \nEric will show artworks and intimate photographs from LIFELINES; Paul will read from his essay\, showing the richness of thought\, heart\, and history which make the book both an artistic expression and an historic document. Jon will join the conversation \nThe discussion will be opened to questions from the audience. \n“These images affirm the desiring self at a moment when the desire had become dangerous…” \n—Mark Doty \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. \n  \nClick here to register\n  \nPurchase ERIC RHEIN: LIFELINES on or before Friday\, June 18th\, 2021\, and receive 25% off: $30 (regularly $40) \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  \nAbout the participants: \nEric Rhein has gained international recognition as an artist whose work embodies themes of love\, sexuality\, and identity as explored through his ever-evolving experience with HIV. In 1996 Rhein began his ongoing project Leaves\, a memorial honoring the lives of over 300 individuals he knew who died of complications from AIDS. Rhein’s work has been exhibited widely in the United States and abroad. Reviews have appeared in the New York Times\, Huffington Post\, ARTnews\, Vanity Fair\, and Art in America. He is included in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art’s Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project. Rhein currently lives in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. \n  \nJonathan Coleman\, Ph.D. is the Co-founder and President of Faulkner Morgan Archive\, Inc.\, a nonprofit that saves and shares the LGBTQ history of Kentucky. He was the James Still Fellow at the University of Kentucky\, earning his doctorate in history in 2014. He often lectures on queer history and was a consultant for the Kentucky LGBT Heritage Initiative funded by the National Park Service. Coleman’s first book\, Anywhere\, Together: A Queer History of Kentucky\, is forthcoming from the University Press of Kentucky. \n  \nPaul Michael Brown is a writer and curator based in Lexington\, Kentucky. He is the former direc-tor of Institute 193 and was the recipient of the 2020 Arts Writer’s Grant. His research and writ-ing has included a focus on queer and self-taught practitioners from the American South. Brown curated the 2019 exhibition ERIC RHEIN: LIFELEINES at Institute 193 and 21c Lexington\, which served as the inspiration for this book. \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:TELL 74: Juneteenth
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. \nJuneteenth is the theme of the 74th TELL\, on Saturday\, June 19\, 2021\, 6 to 7:30 PM (EDT)\, with special guest host lea robinson. Featuring storytellers: Letta Neely\, Maxine Eloi\, and Amanda Shea. \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. \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom meeting link on the day of the event. \nClick here to register\n  \n \nlea robinson is a queer/transgender/butch/gender non-confirming POC identified actor and writer. lea recently moved to Oakland from NYC\, where they were active in both the theater world and film & tv. Lea is currently SAG-AFTRA and AEA and has representation in both L.A. (manager: MadCatch Entertainment) and in San Francisco (MDT). A lover of cats\, scary movies and video games. \n \nLetta Neely is an Earthling; she is also a Black Dyke\, an Artist\, an Activist\, a Feminist\, and a Mother. In addition to Juba and Here\, Letta is the author of the chapbooks When We Were Mud and gawd and alluh huh sistuhs. Her plays: “Hamartia Blues”\, “Last Rites”\, and “Shackles & Sugar” have been produced in Boston\, Philly\, and Los Angeles. She is a co-artistic director for Fort Point Theatre Channel and the editor of Ife Franklin’s book\, “The Slave Narratives of Willie Mae”. She is also an actor and director\, most recently performing with the A.R.T. in the Boston Theatre Marathon Zoom Edition and directing Renita Martin’s “Unmasked” for the Revolution of Values Black Theatre Project. She believes in the interconnectedness of both the struggle and the liberation. Her newest projects: 1) Traces/ Remain:Seed to Harvest with Deen Rawlins can be seen on the Arts Emerson Toshi Reagon’s Parable Path website. 2) Scriptwriter for Ife Franklin’s film “The Slave Narratives of Willie Mae will be presented on Juneteenth at Black Market. and 3) Her newest book Geographies of Power will be available in late 2021. \n \nMaxine Eloi is an actor\, writer\, director\, musician\, teaching artist and filmmaker. Classically trained at Boston University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA)\, Maxine has continued to pursue her creative passions through film\, theater\, and music since graduating with a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree. Maxine has a passion for social justice and sparking positive change in the world. In addition to starring in over 15 films (The Broken Swords\, Blue Crossing\, Roll Pin Punch) she has also created two independent films Sunday Funday and Aghast\, that speak on themes from the environment to abuse of power. Sunday Funday was featured in over 10 festivals internationally\, including the Berlin Black International Film Festival. Maxine is a company member of Theater Delta\, Curious Theatre Collective\, and is a teaching artist at North Carolina Theater Conservatory. When Maxine is not working on film or theater she enjoys her other creative passion in music by performing with multiple bands. Maxine is a vocalist\, guitarist and songwriter for her indie rock band\, Maxine Eloi\, as well as punk collaboration Perchance to Dream. She also performs as a vocalist in The Wiley Fosters. Maxine is grateful to pursue her career as an artist and collaborate with others to create engaging and thought-provoking work in film\, theatre\, music\, and TV.  \n \nAmanda Shea is an International multidisciplinary artist residing in Boston\, Massachusetts. Shea has performed spoken word poetry at numerous venues throughout Boston and globally (including the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum\, Museum of Fine Arts\, The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre (NYC)\, the Peace Institute (D.C.)\, National Press Club (D.C.)\, and the Institute of Contemporary Art). She achieved status as an International Artist when she performed virtually in Africa for ArtGlo based in Malawi; as well as the Jos Literary and Arts Festival in Nigeria. Amanda has been published in several articles such as The Boston Globe\, WBUR\, Boston Magazine\, Boston Hassle and appeared on local news station NBC Boston. Shea sat down with Pebbles on HOT96.9 Boston for the “Voices” segment. Most recently\, Shea was internationally published in Times Group\, a news outlet based in Malawi. \n She served as an official host for the 2018 and 2019 Boston Art & Music Soul Festival as well as the 2019 Arts Equity Summit. Shea is a radio host on LFOD Radio\, which has been nominated for two Boston Music Awards.  \n Amanda is a full time educator who facilitates youth workshops for spoken word poetry\, visual arts\, and public speaking throughout a plethora of schools and non profit organizations in Boston.  \nAmanda will be embarking on her third tour\, to Africa\, in 2021 with two other Boston poets. The “Awake” tour seeks to explore the role of art as both a revolutionary and spiritual tool for social justice and human spiritual awakening.
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Comics! With Random House Graphic
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\nLet’s celebrate PRIDE together with an evening conversation with Random House Graphic creators Jessi Zabarsky\, Jose Pimienta\, and Reimena Yee\, moderated by Whitney Leopard\, Senior Editor at Random House Graphic. The group will discuss creating and publishing graphic novels for kids and their lives as comic creators. After the conversation\, they will take questions from the audience! We encourage the audience to ask about craft and process as well as what’s it like to work in the publishing industry. \n  \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. \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom link on the day of the event. \nClick here to register\nClosed-captioning will be available. \nPurchase Jose Pimienta’s Suncatcher\, Jessi Zabarsky’s Witchlight\, and/or Reimena Yee’s Séance Tea Party on or before June 21\, 2021\, and receive25% 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 \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  \nJessi Zabarsky lives in Chicago with her cat and forty three plants. She was raised in the woods and will one day return there. Her first graphic novel\, Witchlight\, was published by Random House Graphic in 2020\, and her upcoming story Coming Back will be published 2021.. You can find her online at @jessizabarsky. \n  \nJose Pimienta was raised in Mexicali\, Baja California and now resides in Los Angeles\, CA where they work on comics and storyboards for animation and film. Suncatcher was their debut author/illustrator graphic novel. Twin Cities is their first middle-grade graphic novel. In their stories\, they focus on the importance of Latinx culture and the experience of growing up on the border. \n  \nReimena Yee is an illustrator\, writer\, and designer hailing from the dusty metropolis of Kuala Lumpur\, Malaysia. She once was a STEM student\, but left to pursue her passion for the world and all of the histories and cultures within it\, which she weaves into her art and stories. She is the co-founder of UNNAMED\, a comics collective that builds community and resources for visual-literary creators in Southeast Asia. \nShe is the author-illustrator of the gothic comics The World in Deeper Inspection and the Eisner and McDuffie-nominated The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya. Séance Tea Party was her debut middle-grade graphic novel\, to be followed by her upcoming graphic novel My Aunt Is A Monster in 2022.
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SUMMARY:Project Speak Out Loud! Story Reading & Discussion
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join the Project Speak Out Loud Peer Educators (PSOL PEs) for the public debut of a story they’ve written themselves and a guided discussion\, hosted by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division! \nA young adult short story with LGBTQIA+ characters and themes\, “Lost Souls” is sure to be a tale you won’t forget! Free PDF download of book will be available to those who attend. \nAnyone and everyone is welcome to join and celebrate the hard work of these teens/young adults. \nProject Speak Out Loud! (PSOL) is a peer education program supported by queer youth of color ages 14-24 and their allies. Peer educators provide free sexuality education workshops that are sex-positive\, comprehensive\, and inclusive to community members throughout NYC. PSOL’s goal is to build LGBTQ+ cultural competency through a reproductive justice lens and provide safer spaces in NYC for black and brown LGBTQ+ youth to express themselves and be heard! \nFor more information or to request a workshop with PSOL Peer Educators\, please contact Gillian Singer (PSOL Community Educator & Activities Specialist) at gsinger@grandsettlement.org. \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 
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LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Touch :: Feeling :: Reading
DESCRIPTION:As the global pandemic persists\, we become further estranged from touch. Not only is this estrangement a product of our circumstances\, the distance between bodies is integral to the extension of our lives. As we envision a future beyond the pandemic\, we are also redefining our relationship to touch\, the intimate interaction between bodies\, our sociality\, our sense of the erotic\, and our individual and collective vulnerabilities against the violent mechanisms of late capitalism. If we accept that touch has always possessed radical potential prior to the pandemic\, how can we imagine other possibilities of touch in our pandemic present and future? \nInspired by Audre Lorde’s “Uses of the Erotic\,” this reading and celebration of Muriel Leung’s IMAGINE US\, THE SWARM draws from Lorde’s idea of the “erotic charge.” This political reimagining of touch hopes to transform the way we move and heal during a time of grief and uncertainty. \nPurchase Muriel Leung’s Imagine Us\, the Swarm from the Bureau on or before June 23\, 2021\, and receive 25% off! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nSuggested donation $5 to benefit the Bureau. \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom link on the day of the event. You can make a donation when you register. \nClick here to register\nThis event is funded in part by Poets & Writers through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs\, in partnership with the City Council. \n\nReaders biographies: \nMURIEL LEUNG is the author of Imagine Us\, The Swarm\, forthcoming from Nightboat Books and Bone Confetti\, winner of the 2015 Noemi Press Book Award. She is the Poetry Co-Editor of Apogee Journal. She also co-hosts The Blood-Jet Writing Hour podcast with Rachelle Cruz and MT Vallarta. She is a member of Miresa Collective\, a feminist speakers bureau. An Andrew W. Mellon Humanities in a Digital World Fellow\, she is completing her PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. She is from Queens\, NY. \n\nJOEY DE JESUS is the author of HOAX (The Operating System\, 2021)\, We Animate the Dream: A Poet’s Run for Public Office (Mount Analog Political Pamphlet Series II\, 2021)\, NOCT- The Threshold of Madness (The Atlas Review\, 2019)\, and co-author\, alongside Sade LaNay\, of Writing Voice into the Archive vol. 1\, edited by Jennifer Tamayo with support from UC Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender. Joey received a MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and a Departmental Fellowship to complete their MA in Performance Studies from New York University. They received the 2019-20 BRIC ArtFP Project Room Commission and 2017 NYFA/NYSCA Fellowship in Poetry for HOAX. Poems have appeared in Poem-A-Day\, Artists Space\, Barrow Street\, Bettering American Poetry\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Brooklyn Magazine\, The New Museum and elsewhere. Joey is a co-editor at Apogee Journal and sits on the advisory board of No\, Dear Magazine. Joey lives in Ridgewood where they ran for New York State Assembly. \n\nSARETTA MORGAN is a writer and artist based between Phoenix and Mohave Valley\, Arizona. She is author of the chapbooks Feeling Upon Arrival (2018) and room for a counter interior (2017). Her current creative work engages Black migration and ecology in the United States Southwest. As a community organizer she works at intersections of migrant justice\, environmental justice\, and Black liberation. \n\nCHRISTINA OLIVARES is the author of the books of poetry No Map of the Earth Includes Stars\, winner of the 2014 Marsh Hawk Press Book Prize\, and Ungovernable\, forthcoming from YesYes Books. \nOlivares is a queer American-Cuban from the Bronx. She believes in the abolition of poverty and of the carceral state and in the radical project of imagining our liberation. She works as an educator. \n\nCATALINA OUYANG engages object-making\, interdisciplinary environments\, time-based projects\, and relational works to examine themes of desire\, subjugation\, and dissidence. Ouyang’s practice is an act of searching: through myth\, through literature\, and through histories both oral and visual\, to indicate counternarratives around representation and self-definition. Ouyang’s intuitive use of organic\, inorganic\, and conceptual material is simultaneously poetic\, apocalyptic\, primordial\, and abject. \nOuyang will have a solo exhibition at No Place Gallery (Columbus\, Ohio) in July 2021\, followed by their second solo exhibition with Lyles & King in September. Additional solo exhibitions include Real Art Ways\, Hartford\, US; Knockdown Center\, Queens\, US; Make Room\, Los Angeles\, US; and Rubber Factory\, New York\, US. Ouyang’s work has been included in group exhibitions at SculptureCenter\, Queens\, US (curated by Katherine Simóne Reynolds); Nicodim\, Los Angeles\, US; François Ghebaly\, Los Angeles\, US (curated by Kelly Akashi); BRIC\, Brooklyn\, US; Helena Anrather\, New York\, US\, and many more. Ouyang is currently a 2020-21 Studio Artist in Residence at Smack Mellon\, Brooklyn\, US. Ouyang received an MFA from Yale University in 2019. They are represented by Lyles & King\, New York\, and Make Room\, Los Angeles. \n\nICA SADAGAT is a poet and essayist immersed in textual impact\, pleasure/play\, and question marks. She’s published in Apogee Journal\, Nightboat Books\, and TAYO Literary Magazine. \nCurrently\, Ica is a Truman Capote Fellow and MFA candidate at CalArts where they co-created the HYPERLINK reading series in the Creative Writing Program. Ica received her BA at The New School studying Literature\, Psychology\, Race & Ethnicity\, and Gender Studies. A former youth counselor\, they’ve performed and/or instructed at The Philippine Center\, The New School\, Studio Museum 127\, Princeton University\, Brooklyn Museum\, and more. Before and beyond that\, Ica surfs.
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SUMMARY:Aaron S. Lecklider Presents Love's Next Meeting with Emily Hobson
DESCRIPTION:Join Aaron S. Lecklider as he reads from his new book\, Love’s Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture. Lecklider will be in conversation with Emily Hobson\, author of Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left. \nCombining rich archival research with inventive analysis of art and literature\, Love’s Next Meeting explores the relationship between homosexuality and the Left in American culture between 1920 and 1960. Aaron Lecklider uncovers a lively cast of individuals and dynamic expressive works\, revealing remarkably progressive engagement with homosexuality among radicals\, workers\, and the poor. Leftists connected sexual dissidence with radical gender politics\, antiracism\, and challenges to censorship and obscenity laws through the 1920s and 1930s. In the process\, a wide array of activists\, organizers\, artists\, and writers laid the foundation for a radical movement through which homosexual lives and experiences were given shape and new political identities were forged. Love’s Next Meeting cuts to the heart of some of the biggest questions in American history: questions about socialism\, about sexuality\, about the supposed clash still making headlines today between leftist politics and identity politics. What emerges is a dramatic\, sexually vibrant story of the shared struggles for liberation across the twentieth century. \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. \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom link on the day of the event. \nClick here to register\nClosed-captioning will be available. \nPurchase Love’s Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture from the Bureau on or before June 24\, 2021 and receive 25% off! \nPlease note: Love’s Next Meeting will be released on June 15th. Shipments will go out as soon as copies are available. \nEmily Hobson’s Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left is also available from the Bureau’s online store. \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 
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SUMMARY:Drownings\, Accidents\, & Murder: Writing Fiction About Loss
DESCRIPTION:  \nOn Friday\, June 25th at 6 to 7 PM EDT\, please join the Bureau for an online reading and conversation with Randi Triant (A New Life) and Sarah Anne Johnson (The Last Sailor) on writing fiction that’s centered around family grief. While these novels are different genres (psychological suspense vs general/historical fiction) they both deal with the themes of grief and loss after a sibling’s drowning. \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 Randi Triant’s A New Life and/or Sarah Anne Johnson’s The Last Sailor on or before Friday\, June 25th\, 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\nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nRandi Triant will read from her new psychological suspense novel\, A New Life. Her debut novel\, The Treehouse\, was selected by the lesbian and bisexual culture site\, AfterEllen.com as an “ultimate summer read. The Treehouse reads like a fabulous lesbian soap opera\, chock-full of wit and overflowing with heart.” \nIn addition to The Treehouse\, Randi Triant’s short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in literary journals and magazines\, including two anthologies of writing about HIV/AIDS\, Art & Understanding: Literature from the First Twenty Years of A & U and Fingernails Across the Blackboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora. She has taught writing at Boston College and Emerson College. randitriant.com \n  \nSarah Anne Johnson will read from her latest novel\, The Last Sailor. Jon Clinch\, author of Marley and Finn\, says of The Last Sailor\, “There is real life in Sarah Anne Johnson’s new book\, and genuine family drama too\, all grounded in an authoritative evocation of old Cape Cod’s waterways\, marshes\, and waterfront towns. The Last Sailor is memorable\, clearly seen\, and deeply felt.” \nSarah Anne Johnson’s previous books are The Lightkeeper’s Wife\, The Very Telling\, The Art of the Author Interview\, and Conversations with American Women Writers. Her interviews appear in The Writer’s Chronicle\, Glimmertrain Stories\, Provincetown Arts\, and The Writer. She has taught writing at Lesley College and Bennington College. sarahannejohnson.com
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/drownings-accidents-murder-writing-fiction-about-loss/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:PRIDE WAS A PROTEST! The Impossible but True Story of Gay Pride
DESCRIPTION:PRIDE WAS A PROTEST! \nThe Impossible but True Story of Gay Pride … LA\, NYC and Beyond \nFacilitated by August Bernadicou \nFeaturing: \nEllen Broidy: Proposed the idea of the first NYC Pride march; participated in the Lavender Menace Zap \nReverend Troy Perry: Founded the Metropolitan Community Church\, the largest LGBTQ Church with over 400\,000 members around the world \nMartha Shelley: Co-founded the pioneering\, gay activist group\, the Gay Liberation Front (NYC); participated in the Lavender Menace Zap \nPerry Brass: The Gay Liberation Front (NYC); co-founded Callen Lorde\, a health network dedicated to providing care to New York’s LGBTQ population; author \nDr. Don Kilhefner: The Gay Liberation Front (LA); co-founded the LA LGBT Center\, the largest LGBTQ Center in the world; co-founded the Radical Faeries\, an international network dedicated to exploring gay consciousness; Jungian-depth psychologist \nLearn history from the original outlaws as they tell their story of fear and running during the first march that became Gay Pride. \nSuggested donation to benefit The LGBTQ History Project and the Bureau: $5. \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom link on the morning of the day of the event. \n\nClick here to register\n\n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/pride-was-a-protest-the-impossible-but-true-story-of-gay-pride/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:QUEER LIBERATION MARCH 2021
DESCRIPTION:From Reclaim Pride Coalition website (posted March 1\, 2021) \n“The Reclaim Pride Coalition (RPC) will take to the streets on Sunday\, June 27th\, 2021 to stage the third annual Queer Liberation March. As in 2019 and 2020\, this is a People’s March with no regimented contingents\, no corporate sponsors\, and no NYPD control over decision making or uniformed police marching. The Queer Liberation March revives the goals and spirit of the original Christopher Street Liberation Day March in 1970\, born out of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising: social justice\, freedom\, and access for all! \n“Over the last year\, the larger Queer and Trans communities have endured extraordinary challenges and difficulties brought on by the pandemic and its economic fallout\, continued violent attacks committed by the NYPD on peaceful protesters\, murders of Black Trans Women\, and the public expressions of anti-Trans bigotry and racism by alleged members of our communities\, among many other issues of importance to our intersectional coalition. \n“‘We must march and have our voices heard\,’ said James Papadopoulos\, a march organizer\, ‘The struggle for Queer Liberation cannot wait for the passing of the pandemic\, as COVID-19 has made surviving even more difficult for far too many of our most marginalized community members.’ As with the 2020 Queer Liberation March For Black Lives and Against Police Brutality\, organizers will encourage marchers to wear masks and employ risk reduction strategies. Masks and sanitizer will also be provided at the gathering site and along the March route to keep this a safe event. Spare wheelchairs will also be carried along the March route to be utilized as needed. As with both prior marches\, organizers pledge to make the March as accessible as possible: including ASL interpretation for all aspects\, attention being paid to accessible subway stations near the gathering spot and end points\, and street medics and marshals being positioned throughout the March. \n“In recognition of the extraordinary diversity of lived experience among our many Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual\, Transgender\, Queer\, Intersex\, Asexual\, Two-Spirit\, Non-Binary\, Gender Non-conforming (LGBTQIA2SNBGNC+) and other communities\, RPC organizers have created an online form for folks around the city\, the country\, and the world to share their struggles\, challenges\, and needs to inform the planning and messaging for the March. \n“‘This is the People’s March\,’ said organizer Francesca R. Barjon. ‘We want any and every member of our Queer and Trans family to guide the direction of this March\, thereby creating an event that can make a true impact on our lives and our capacity to thrive!'” \n  \nThe Bureau is partnering with Reclaim Pride Coalition on a series of five online panels addressing houselessness; transgenerational activism; radical Black love/confronting anti-Blackness; prison/police abolition; and sex work/sex workers’ rights. \nThe first of these panels\, No Place to Call Home: Queer & Trans Houselessness\, 2021\, will take place on Thursday\, April 15\, 6 to 7:30 PM EDT online. To register for this FREE event please visit the Eventbrite page. \nThe Bureau’s online store now features a section devoted to books recommended by Reclaim Pride Coalition! \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nReclaim Pride Coalition (RPC) is a New York City-based group of LGBTQIA2S+ activists in alliance with dozens of grassroots community groups\, nationally and internationally. RPC’s primary work is organizing the Queer Liberation March. In June 2019\, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising\, RPC mobilized more than 45\,000 people to recreate the original 1970 Christopher Street Liberation Day March route uptown from Stonewall to Central Park. In 2020\, under the darkness of the global pandemic\, RPC held the Queer Liberation March for Black Lives and Against Police Brutality. The QLM is the annual people’s protest march without corporate funding; corporate floats; politicians’ grandstanding; or police control or involvement. \nFor Reclaim Pride Coalition’s complete statements of purpose: \nRPC March – Why We March  \nRPC 2020 March – Demands & Safety Info \nWebsite: www.reclaimpridenyc.org\nFacebook: @QueerMarch\nTwitter: @QueerMarch\nInstagram: @QueerMarch \n\n\n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-liberation-march-2021/
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