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SUMMARY:It Was Her New York: True Stories and Snapshots (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:CELEBRATING THE RELEASE OF IT WAS HER NEW YORK (ROOTSTOCK PUBLISHING): true stories and accidental snapshots about undying love\, old lesbians\, all our fellow New Yorkers\, and home. \n3PM – Reading\, Presentation and Conversation \nCOPIES OF IT WAS HER NEW YORK AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE & SIGNING AFTER ARTIST TALK \nA reading and presentation of excerpts from IT WAS HER NEW YORK\, followed by a conversation with author C.O. Moed and Lesbian Herstory Archivette Paula Grant.  \nThrough a mosaic of intimate photo-illustrated vignettes\, IT WAS HER NEW YORK (Rootstock Publishing) celebrates the fierce moxie of New Yorkers\, immigrants seeking the American Dream\, a sixty-year-old hidden love story of two women\, defiance against infuriating aging\, the definition of home as it slowly disappears into gentrification and what it means to be family.  This rare fusion brings visibility not only to underrepresented communities\, but also highlight the men and women who keep America’s cities running. \nCopies of IT WAS HER NEW YORK (2024\, paperback\, $36) will be available for purchase and signing. To reserve a copy\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve a copy of It Was Her New York” in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd \n  \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \n  \n  \nC.O. Moed grew up on New York’s Lower East Side when it was still a tough neighborhood. A recipient of the Elizabeth George Grant for Fiction and an alum of the infamous and groundbreaking WOW Cafe\, her work has appeared in various presses and anthologies.  Her 10-year blog (2006-2016) My Private Coney\, about New York City\, love\, death and the meaning of home has been featured in Jeremiah Moss’s Vanishing New York and excerpted in various online magazines and websites. She lives with fellow writer and fellow Mets fan\, Ted Krever. \n  \nPaula Grant is a Lesbian Herstory Archivette and Elder. A social worker\, activist and a great dancer\, as well as a contributor to C.O. Moed’s blog My Private Coney\, she is one of the coordinators at LHA and has been a volunteer since 1979. She was born in 1945 in Manhattan\, grew up in the Bronx and is a longtime activist for human and civil rights. She trained as a social worker and in 2010 retired from a public agency in suburban New York State after forty years. She was a Dodger’s fan until they deserted New York.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/it-was-her-new-york/
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SUMMARY:Male Bodies Unmade: Author Jongwoo Jeremy Kim in conversation with Sharmistha Ray (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join Male Bodies Unmade author Jongwoo Jeremy Kim and his colleague Sharmistha Ray for a conversation about representations of GWM (gay white male) beefcakes in art—and their significance for polyglot\, POC queers. Critics are calling Male Bodies Unmade “witty and wise\,” celebrating the book as “a gleaming example of queer critique.” Horny self-extinction and decolonial disidentification will be explored in relation to artists such as David Hockney and Robert Gober. \nTo reserve a copy of Male Bodies Unmade: Picturing Queer Selfhood (University of California Press\, 2023\, hardcover\, $50)\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve Male Bodies Unmade for March 9th” in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \n  \n\nJongwoo Jeremy Kim\, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Critical Studies in Art History and Theory at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of Painted Men in Britain\, 1868-1918: Royal Academicians and Masculinities\, as well as Male Bodies Unmade: Picturing Queer Selfhood. Kim’s approach is informed by his own status as an immigrant—a polyglot queen drawn to extravagant fantasies of misbehaving bodies that are in truth foreign territories\, colonies of misbeliefs. \n  \nSharmistha Ray (they/them) is a visual artist\, art critic\, curator\, and professor at Carnegie Mellon School of Art. Their artistic practice delves into the complex inheritance of multiple cultures through their queer identity and modes of abstraction. Reviews of their work have appeared in The New York Times\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Artnet\, Hyperallergic\, and many others. \n 
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SUMMARY:Book launch: WATCHNIGHT by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading/conversation with Cyrée Jarelle Johnson\, Joselia Hughes\, Zefyr Lisowski\, and Danilo Machado to celebrate the release of WATCHNIGHT (Nightboat Books).  \nIn exhilarating lyric poems and chiseled prose blocks\, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson charts the history of his family alongside the history of Watchnight—a churchy holiday of messianic tarrying—and steps through portals to render the human faces of American internal migration and mass displacement—from countryside to city and back again. Spanning from 1803 to a near-future rife with class tension and racial anxiety\, WATCHNIGHT is a study of Black bonds\, Black grief\, and Black flight. \n\n\nCopies of WATCHNIGHT  (Nightboat Books\, 2024\, paperback\, $17.95) will be available for purchase and signing. To reserve a copy\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve a copy of Watchnight” in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd \n  \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/book-launch-watchnight/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday: Mark S. King\, My Fabulous Disease: Chronicles of a Gay Survivor
DESCRIPTION:The Center is proud to present a special reading of a selection of essays from activist and writer Mark S. King\, author of My Fabulous Disease: Chronicles of a Gay Survivor. \nRoom 101 of The LGBT Community Center \nDoor at 6:30 PM \nEvent at 7 PM \nThe Bureau will be on hand to sell copies of My Fabulous Disease: Chronicles of a Gay Survivor (2023\, paperback\, $19.99). To reserve a copy\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve a copy of My Fabulous Disease” in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nABOUT MY FABULOUS DISEASE \n​​My Fabulous Disease: Chronicles of a Gay Survivor is an anthology spanning four decades – in turns emotional\, biting and hilarious – from activist and writer Mark S. King. \nThe sum of these chronicles is a manifesto of survival. But they also are a portrait of a man giggling through a graveyard. There is a sense of joyful gratitude that permeates even the darkest chapters\, a throughline of cheeky optimism that makes the tragedy bearable and the humor uproarious. \nMy Fabulous Disease divulges King’s intimate triumphs and misfires along with glimpses of his Southern family coming to terms with a gay son\, his harrowing drug addiction and eventual recovery\, and a lifetime spent skating on the cracked ice of HIV. \n  \nABOUT MARK S. KING \nMARK S. KING is an award-winning blogger\, author\, speaker\, and HIV/AIDS activist who has been involved in HIV causes since testing positive in 1985. King was named the 2020 LGBTQ Journalist of the Year by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalist Association (NLGJA)\, which also awarded King their “Excellence in Blogging” honor in 2014\, 2016 and 2020. My Fabulous Disease won the 2020 GLAAD Award for Outstanding Blog after five consecutive nominations\, and was named one of 2020’s “OUT100” by OUT Magazine. King’s new collection of essays\, My Fabulous Disease: Chronicles of a Gay Survivor is available now to pre-order from online sites or your favorite bookstore. For full bio please visit marksking.com.
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LOCATION:The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 101\, New York\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:OUTspoken: The Publishing Triangle’s Reading Series\, March Edition (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:The Publishing Triangle presents its monthly OUTspoken Reading Series as host Rob Byrnes welcomes Mary Burns\, Wo Chan\, Stephen Greco\, Cheryl Head\, Bill Konigsberg\, Tim Stobierski\, Kathleen Warnock\, and Jerry L. Wheeler.  \nJoin us as in-person or watch the live-stream (see below) to hear from some of queer literature’s most dynamic established and up-and-coming voices. \n\n\n\nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n\nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \n  \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a donation. \n\nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/outspoken-the-publishing-triangles-reading-series-march-edition/
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SUMMARY:Book launch: Funny Boy: The Richard Hunt Biography\, Jessica Max Stein talking with Theodore Kerr (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join Funny Boy author Jessica Max Stein and writer/organizer Ted Kerr for a conversation about the life of Muppet performer Richard Hunt\, who brought to life beloved characters on Sesame Street\, The Muppet Show and Fraggle Rock before dying at 40 of HIV-related causes. Stein and Kerr will discuss the hidden queer history behind this iconic pop culture and the often surprising experience of writing LGBTQ biography. Publishers Weekly described Funny Boy as “nuanced and perceptive”. \n  \nTo reserve a copy of Funny Boy: The Richard Hunt Biography (Rutgers University Press\, 2024\, hardcover\, $34.95)\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve Funny Boy” in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \n  \nJessica Max Stein has been a New York-based queer writer since the early 90s. Her writing has received awards from Poets and Writers Magazine\, the Independent Press Association\, and the Biographers International Organization\, as well as being published widely. She teaches writing and literature at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY). \n  \nTheodore (ted) Kerr is a Brooklyn based writer and organizer. He co wrote We Are Having This Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production\, with Alexandra Juhasz (Duke University Press\, 2022). He is a founding member of What Would an HIV Doula Do? \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/book-launch-funny-boy/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240316T130000
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SUMMARY:A Thousand Paper Cranes for Palestine-An Open Mic For Disabled Palestinian and Yemeni Community (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Connecting Gaza: An afternoon of art\, community\, and accessibility supporting Palestinians with disabilities. \nSaturday\, March 16\, 1 to 3 PM \nJoin us for an art event fundraising for e-sims for Palestinians\, as well as several other orgs providing aid to Palestinian and Yemeni civilians. Disability is intersectional. This event aims to reflect that by facilitating connection on a literal and interpersonal level. The event will feature various performance art from Palestinian and SWANA artists including; monologues\, poems\, and more\, as well as a communal origami crane-making station. Here is our working list of mutual aid/orgs we’ll have posters and qr codes for to amplify and support: \nhttps://gazaesims.com/ \n\n\n\n\nhttps://lauricekhouryfoundation.org/ \nAtfaluna Society for Deaf Children: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/gaza-emergency-aid/\n \nhttps://www.gazasunbirds.org/ \nhttps://disabilityundersiege.org/ \nhttps://www.pcrf.net/ \nhttps://www.islamicreliefcanada.org/emergencies/yemen-appeal \n https://palestinementalhealth.org/ \nhttps://donate.unrwa.org/-landing-page/en_EN \n\nPlease wear a mask! \nWe will have plenty of masks on hand for everyone.\n\nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \n\nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nBuilding accessibility: \nTake the street entrance ramp (to the right of The Center’s main entrance) and you will find an elevator behind the Information and Referral desk (to the left of the staircase). Take the elevator to the second floor and make a left when you exit\, The Bureau is the last door on your left. A ramp leads into room 210\, where the Bureau resides. Bureau volunteers are happy to assist visitors who need help reaching books and other merchandise. ADA accessible all-gender bathrooms are down the hall from the Bureau. \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nSign up for the open mic: \nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/1q3Edu8HgOvejRmkV6wnRKj6LjYIQjSPl7djCY0BoTUE/viewform\n 
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH Love the World or Get Killed Trying by Alvina Chamberland\, with Penny Arcade (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Having been included in THEM’s\, Ms. Magazine’s\, Nylon’s\, and SF Chronicle’s Most Anticipated books-lists for 2024 and receiving advanced praise from Torrey Peters\, Kathleen Hanna\, Jarett Kobek\, Lydia Lunch\, Susan Stryker\, Rob Doyle\, Eliot Duncan\, and Publishers Weekly – it is time for the lyrical\, literary\, trans feminine LOVE THE WORLD OR GET KILLED TRYING by Alvina Chamberland to finally be released into the world and the wild. \nJoin us on Wednesday\, March 20th\, at 7 PM\, for a special evening with Alvina Chamberland reading from the novel\, and the performance icon Penny Arcade reading from her forthcoming memoir\, followed by a discussion on art\, literature\, literary favorites\, and creating political content that is also artistically deep and complex. LOVE THE WORLD OR GET KILLED TRYING will be for sale at the store\, and the author will be available to sign your copy. \nMORE ON LOVE THE WORLD OR GET KILLED TRYING: \nWINNER OF THE 2022 NOEMI PRESS BOOK AWARD IN PROSE \n“Perhaps some hearts are so big they must constantly burst and break.” \nThrough playful poetic prose\, sharp social commentary and self-deprecating gallows humor Love the World or Get Killed Trying dives into the mind of Alvina\, a trans woman on the eve of turning 30. The reader is invited to follow her journey through the breathtaking wilderness of Iceland and busy city boulevards of Berlin and Paris as she probes questions of eternity\, sexuality\, longing\, death\, love\, and how hard it is to remain soft when you’re a ceaseless target of straight men’s secret lust and open disgust. This novel tackles universal issues through a trans woman’s specific lens – insisting on these experiences speaking to far more than just issues of sexuality and gender. \nReaching its climax through an urgent wildfire scream-of-consciousness\, cry-of-love-manifesto\, Love the World or Get Killed Trying is a raw and vulnerable work of magical brutalist autofiction; abstract in the sense of poetically digging beneath the surface\, and experimental in the sense of trying to find out new things and express them in new ways\, while concretely asserting that if trans women one day collectively outed every man who seeks them out\, a full-blown revolution would ensue by nightfall. \n  \nTo reserve a copy of Love the World or Get Killed Trying (Noemi Press\, March 15\, 2024\, paperback\, $18)\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve copy of Love the World” in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n\nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \n  \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a donation. \n\nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd \n\n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/love-the-world-or-get-killed-trying/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Girl Work: Book Launch and Celebration (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for celebrating Zefyr Lisowski’s debut poetry collection\, GIRL WORK\, out from Noemi Books\, with a short reading and conversation with poet and novelist John Manuel Arias. \nGIRL WORK\, a book-length meditation on sexual violence and feminized labor\, centers hybrid-form and prose poems exploring haunting\, labor\, sexual trauma\, and the assertion of a gender- nonconforming self in our current political moment. Written in injunctions to the self\, to past assailants\, and to friends\, GIRL WORK challenges canonical representations of pain as punitive\, redemptive\, or separable from the environmental conditions it springs from. Throughout GIRL WORK\, a self is restored from the detritus of memory—flashes of sexual violence\, pop cultural touchstones like the movie The Ring\, the music of Ke$ha\, the sudden death of a father\, the paintings of Henry Darger\, and more. Winner of the 2022 Book Award from Noemi Press. \n  \nTo reserve a copy of Girl Work (Noemi Press\, March 15\, 2024\, paperback\, $18)\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve Girl Work for March 23rd” in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \n  \nJohn Manuel Arias is a queer\, Costa Rican-American poet and writer. He is the author of the debut novel\, Where There Was Fire (Flatiron\, 2023). He is a Canto Mundo fellow and alumnus of the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop. His prose and poetry have been published in PANK\, The Rumpus\, F(r)iction\, Joyland Magazine\, and Akashic Books. He has lived in Washington D.C.\, Brooklyn New York\, and in San José\, Costa Rica with his grandmother and four ghosts. \n  \nZefyr Lisowski is a poet and essayist from the Great Dismal Swamp\, North Carolina. A poetry co-editor of the Whiting Award winning Apogee Journal\, she’s the author of two poetry collections\, Blood Box (Black Lawrence Press\, 2019) and Girl Work\, winner of the 2022 Noemi Book Prize. A 2023 NYFA/NYSCA Fellow in Nonfiction and 2023 Queer|Art Fellow\, Zefyr has received further support from Tin House Summer Writers Workshop\, Blue Mountain Center\, the Center for the Humanities\, and Sundress Academy for the Arts. She’s seen grave robbers twice. Her essay collection about horror movies\, exes\, and love is forthcoming from Harper Perennial in Fall 2025.
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SUMMARY:Origami Vending Machine (in person only)
DESCRIPTION:Origami artist and teacher Sok Song introduces an innovative Origami Vending Machine\, appearing at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division (the Bureau)\, Sunday\, March 24th\, from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM. This interactive\, site-specific sculpture/installation offers a unique time and performance-based experience\, allowing participants to select their preferred paper and choose from various traditional origami models to receive a free folded object from the ingenious Origami Vending Machine. \n\n\n\n\n\n● Website: http://origamivendingmachine.com or http://ovmnyc.com  \nAbout the Origami Vending Machine: The Origami Vending Machine (OVM) is a site-specific\, interactive sculpture measuring 3 feet deep by 3 feet wide by 4 feet tall. Participants choose a sheet of patterned paper and feed it into the machine. Then they select the origami model they would like by pressing a button. Afterwards\, an animation of the model being folded is displayed on a digital screen. In less than a minute\, the finished origami creation is dispensed!  \nCurrent Locations:  \n\n  Kinokuniya (Sun.\, Feb. 18\, noon-4pm) \n  Manhattan Graphics Center (Sat.\, Mar. 2\, noon-4pm) \n  92nd Street Y (Sat.\, Mar. 16\, noon-4pm) \n  BGSQD (Sat.\, Mar. 24\, 1-3pm)\n  CUNY Hunter College (TBA)\n  NYC Subway (TBA)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSuggestions for future locations can be sent to these OVM websites: http://origamivendingmachine.com and http://ovmnyc.com  \n\n\n\n\n  \nAbout Sok Song:  \nSok Song is a versatile interdisciplinary artist who incorporates traditional paper-folding along with his Korean heritage into various fine art forms such as sculpture\, ceramics\, printmaking\, and painting. An award-winning multimedia creator\, he’s the founder of Creased\, Inc.\, and the Origami Meetup Group (OMGNYC)\, and the author of multiple publications\, including Origami Chic and Crease + Fold. Sok currently teaches origami and printmaking at the 92nd Street Y and has taught at other esteemed institutions like the American Museum of Natural History\, MoMA\, CUNY Hunter\, and the Manhattan Graphics Center\, as well as at international conferences and various public and private schools. His inventive design work has been featured in Vogue\, Vanity Fair\, L’Uomo\, Marie Claire\, Pop\, Icon\, Self\, and GQ. Sok has become the first individual ever to receive a degree in Origami\, thanks to the CUNY Baccalaureate program. Sok’s artistic journey also encompasses many honors such as a residency at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking\, an Awesome Foundation Award for his Origami Vending Machine\, and an NEA grant via the Vermont Studio Center. Sok is a 2024 artist-in-residence at Makerspace NYC\, where he’s employing origami to address immigration\, border conflicts\, and militarized zones\, for a public sculpture in MakerPark.  \nThe Origami Vending Machine is made possible in part by the NYC chapter of the Awesome Foundation a.k.a. AwesomeNYC: https://www.awesomefoundation.org/en/chapters/nyc  \nFor media inquiries\, please contact Sok Song at soksong@gmail.com. \n For more information\, visit http://origamivendingmachine.com. \n 
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LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: UNTENABLE MYSTIC CHARM by travis l. tate (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join UNTENABLE MYSTIC CHARM author travis l. tate and friends— Dom Martello\, Jack Sullivan\, Kyle Turner\, & Omari K. Chancellor— for a night of readings from UNTENABLE MYSTIC CHARM\, followed by a short Q&A. \nUNTENABLE MYSTIC CHARM is a collection of eight short stories by travis I. tate ranging from the sensual to the humorous\, and the vaguely historical to undeniably erotic told with poetic tenderness\, a flair for the dramatic\, and a love of the absurd. \nTo reserve a copy of Untenable Mystic Charm (Stanchion\, February 27\, 2024\, paperback\, $13)\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve Untenable Mystic Charm for March 27th” in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \n  \nDom Martello is a writer\, performer\, and visual artist based in NYC. Their work is rooted in queer magical realism and has been developed by The Elif Collective\, Syracuse University\, The Strides Collective\, and The Workshop Theater. \n  \nJack Sullivan is a queer writer and visual artist living in Brooklyn\, NY. His plays\, performance texts\, and video design have premiered at Dixon Place (NYC)\, The Tank (NYC)\, Belconnen Arts Centre (Canberra\, Australia)\, and New Zealand Fringe Festival. His prose and poetry can be found / are forthcoming in BODEGA\, JAKE\, WHISKEY TIT\, and GHOST CITY REVIEW. He is very in love with Travis. \n  \nKyle Turner is a queer writer based in Brooklyn\, NY. His writing on film\, queerness\, and culture has been featured in W Magazine\, The Village Voice\, Slate\, GQ and the New York Times\, and he is the author of The Queer Film Guide: 100 Films That Tell LGBTQIA+ Stories  from Smith Street Books and Rizzoli. He is relieved to know that he is not a golem. \n  \nOmari K. Chancellor is a Brooklyn based actor and writer. They can be seen in Peter Farrelly’s film\, The Greatest Beer Run Ever on Apple+ after a world premiere at TIFF. Omari was seen in the world premieres of Soft by Donja R. Love and I Am a Walrus by MJ Kaufman at the Williamstown Theatre Festival as well as appearing in amani at Rattlestick. Omari’s writing can be found in American Chordata\, SoftPunk magazine\, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn among others. \n  \ntravis l. tate is a poet\, playwright and performer living in Brooklyn\, NY. Their plays have been seen at Breaking The Binary Theatre Festival\, Theatre East\, Victory Gardens\, Dorset Theatre Festival and Luna Stage. Their poetry collection MAIDEN is out on V.A. Press. Their writing has appeared in Vassar Review\, Joyland\, 3views among others. Find more information at travisltate.com
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SUMMARY:Game Over Books Queer Poetry Showcase ft. Myles Taylor\, Dena Igusti\, Liv Mammone\, Mya Matteo Alexice (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join us on March 28th at the Bureau for a reading from four emerging authors in partnership with Game Over Books. Myles Taylor\, Dena Igusti\, Mya Matteo Alexice\, and Liv Mammone will be reading from their forthcoming or currently available titles. There will be time allotted to purchase and sign books after the reading. \n\nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd \n  \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nParticipants’ biographies: \nMya Matteo Alexice is a non-binary\, Black and white graduate of the Rutgers-Newark MFA. Their poems can be found in or are forthcoming in publications such as Pleiades\, Black Warrior Review\, Copper Nickel\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, The Bennington Review\, Barrelhouse\, The Pinch\, Cherry Tree\, underblong\, and elsewhere. They were the runner-up in the 2023 Black Warrior Review Poetry Contest judged by Gary Soto. Their debut poetry collection\, A Shape We’ve Yet to Name (March ’24)\, is forthcoming from Game Over Books. They enjoy video games where you can make the characters kiss. \n  \nLiv Mammone (she/her) is an editor and poet from Long Island. Her poetry has appeared with Button Poetry\, The Poetry Foundation\, The Medical Journal of Australia\, and in many other places. In 2017\, she competed for Union Square Slam as the first disabled woman to be on a New York national poetry slam team. She was also a finalist in the Capturing Fire National Poetry Slam in 2017. She has edited multiple books across genres\, including the poetry collection They Called Her Goddess We Named her Girl by Uma Dwivedi\, which was nominated for a Write Bloody Book Award. A Brooklyn Poets Fellow and Zoeglossia fellow\, she is currently an editor at Game Over Books. In 2022\, hers was one of the top ten most read poems at Split This Rock’s poetry database\, The Quarry. Her first collection is forthcoming in 2025. Follow her on Instagram @mammoneliv.  \n  \nDena Igusti is an Indonesian Muslim writer born and raised in Queens\, New York. They are the author of CUT WOMAN (Game Over Books\, 2020)\, which has been listed as a 2022 Perennial Award Winner\, 2020 Harvard Bookstore Staff Pick\, and Entropy Mag’s Best Of 2020-2021\, and I NEED THIS TO NOT SWALLOW ME ALIVE (Gingerbug Press\, 2021). They are the co-playwright of the wish: a manual for a last-ditch effort to save abortion in the united states through theater (2023 A is For… Winner). They are the Inaugural 2023 NYFA Ryan Hudak Playwright Award Winner. Their work has been featured in BOAAT Press\, Peregrine Journal\, Colorbloq\, and several other publications. Their work has been produced and performed at LA Times\, The Brooklyn Museum\, The Apollo Theater\, Women Deliver\, the 2018 Teen Vogue Summit\, Players Theatre (SHARUM\, 2019)\, Prelude Festival (Cut Woman\, 2020)\, Center At West Park (CON DOUGH\, 2021)\, The Tank (First Sight 2021 at LimeFest)\, The Public (BLISS at Breaking The Binary Theatre Festival\, 2023) and several other venues internationally. \n  \nMyles Taylor (they/he) is a transmasculine writer\, organizer\, educator\, food service worker\, Capricorn-Aquarius cusp\, and glitter enthusiast. They are the current Producer of the historic Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab Lounge and former President and alum of the Emerson Poetry Project. They have represented Boston and Emerson College at the National Poetry Slam\, FEMS Tournament\, CUPSI\, and others\, and have been performing internationally for over 8 years. Their various publications and performance videos can be found at myles-taylor.com\, and their neuroses can be found on social media @mylesdoespoems. They live amongst the rats of Allston\, MA. Masculinity Parable (Game Over Books\, 2023) is their first full-length collection. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:RADIANT: The Life and Line of Keith Haring (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Perhaps more than any other\, the singular street art of Keith Haring became emblematic of a particular cultural time and place: an at-once vibrant and decaying downtown New York of the 1980s\, marked by both rebellion and excess\, and soon to be ravaged by AIDS. Today\, Haring’s instantly recognizable images grace everything from kid’s sneakers to Coach backpacks. The short\, meteoric career and stunning achievements of this iconic American artist are richly documented in RADIANT: The Life and Line of Keith Haring (Harper\, March 5\, 2024) by National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and New York Times bestselling biographer Brad Gooch. Granted access to Haring’s extensive archive\, Gooch interviewed or was helped by more than two hundred people in assembling this definitive account of the magic and mystery of a barrier-breaking visionary. \nBrad Gooch will be joined in conversation by Ricardo Montez\, author of Keith Haring’s Line: Race and the Performance of Desire (Duke University Press\, 2020). \nCopies of Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring (Harper\, 2024\, hardcover\, $40) will be available for purchase and signing\, as will copies of Keith Haring’s Line: Race and the Performance of Desire (Duke University Press\, 2020\, paperback\, $24.95). To reserve copies of either/both books\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “reserve book(s) for March 30th” in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nAbout Radiant: \nKeith Haring arrived in downtown Manhattan from Kutztown\, Pennsylvania in 1978\, age 20. He discovered a city filled with urgent messages\, taped to blank walls or spraypainted on the sides of buses. He was soon leaving his distinctive\, unsigned chalk drawings on the black matte sheets pasted over outdated ads in the subway\, drawings that featured images that would become his basic alphabet: flying saucers\, pyramids\, ziggurat stairways\, barking dogs\, crawling babies suffused in rays. Before long\, Haring was a global artist\, part of an influential cultural crowd that included Andy Warhol\, Madonna\, and Basquiat. He played a significant role in breaking down the wall erected between high art and popular culture\, creating accessible work for all that provoked and inspired radical social change. Haring died of AIDS in 1990; his work\, once radical\, is now timeless. \n“I saw my first Keith Haring circa 1980\, though I can’t say exactly when\, only that from the first crawling babies spotted in SoHo\, his artworks were a marker\, a sort of placeholder in my memories of the decade\,” writes Gooch\, whose memoir Smash Cut chronicled his own exuberant youth in the New York arts scene in the 70s and 80s. “With his early belief that art could change the world for the better\, and wishing to make accessible and affordable for everyone\, Haring\, against all odds\, succeeded at his democratizing mission. In our own era of engagement by so many artists with any available surface; with personal icons and licensing; with activism\, collaborating\, communication; and with the fostering of community\, Keith Haring seems more than ever one of us.” \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd \n  \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \n  \nBrad Gooch is a poet\, novelist\, and biographer whose previous ten books include Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor\, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist\, New York Times Notable Book of the Year\, and New York Times bestseller; City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara; Godtalk: Travels in Spiritual America; and the memoir Smash Cut. He is the recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities and Guggenheim fellowships and lives in New York City. \n  \nRicardo Montez is Associate Professor of Performance Studies in English and Art History at Rutgers University. He is the author of Keith Haring’s Line: Race and the Performance of Desire (Duke University Press\, 2020).
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