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SUMMARY:Revisioning Democracy podcast - Lessons in fighting right-wing criminalization and Project 2025 (hybrid in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN THE CONVERSATION!  \nWHAT DO WE WANT IN AMERICA NOW?  \nHOW DO WE FIGHT RIGHT-WING ASSAULTS & CRIMINALIZATION OF GENDER? \nWhat: Revisioning Democracy video podcast launch with guest Allan Maleche\, Executive Director of KELIN in Kenya\, and other guests\n \nWho: Co-hosts Anne-christine d’Adesky and Jay W. Walker of Stop The Coup 2025 campaign \nWhen: Thursday August 8\, 2024\, 5-7 PM EDT\n \nWhere: The Bureau\, room 210 of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC (and live-streaming at youtube.com/@bgsqd)\n \nWhy? Because we are facing unrelenting attacks and must fight back. We must vision ourselves into a better future – for America & the world.  \nStrap yourselves Down! Tighten your seat belts! You’re invited to join the launch of Revisioning Democracy – a new video podcast Public Conversation about the times and challenges we face right now in America – and globally — to defend our democracy and rights – and revision the world we want. This Public Conversation will examine the escalating attacks on our civil rights\, authoritarianism\, and our lessons\, resistance\, and commitment to the unfinished project of our democracy and our visions for a better future. That includes dissecting Project 2025\, the conservative blueprint to destroy our democracy and impose a Christian theocracy on America – and how we fight back. Join us to be inspired by leading activists and voices from the trenches.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nstopthecoup2025.org  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe will not live in a Christian fundamentalist Handmaid’s Tale! We have a greater vision!  \nRevisioning Democracy will examine the challenges we face in America from a queer and feminist lens\, and engage activists\, change-makers\, and thought leaders on the frontlines of the political and cultural wars.  \nOur second guest is African human rights activist Allan Maleche\, Executive Director of The Kenya Legal & Ethical Issues Network on HIV and AIDS (KELIN)\, in conversation with cohosts Anne-christine d’Adesky and Jay W. Walker of the Stop the Coup 2025 campaign to fight Project 2025. Other guests may be added.\n \nInfo: stopthecoup2025@gmail.com
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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:lesbian book club (in person only)
DESCRIPTION:We’ll be reading fiction and non-fiction — classic\, contemporary\, revealing and visionary. As a group we will decide what to read each month\, focusing on lesbian authors and/or related topics. Co-founded by lesbian book lovers Judi Komaki and Piper Olsen.  \n\nFor August 10th\, we’ll be reading Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Mariner Books Classics\, 2007\, paperback\, $18.99). \n\nPurchase Fun Home from the Bureau before August 10th and receive a 15% discount ($16.14 instead of $18.99)! Just mention the lesbian book club when you purchase the book. Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \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. \nRegistration is not required. 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/lesbian-book-club-fun-home/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gay Novels of James Baldwin (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join us on the occasion of James Baldwin’s 100th birthday for an exploration of Baldwin’s gay novels: Giovanni’s Room (1956)\, Another Country (1962)\, and Just Above My Head (1979). Hosted by Afro-American scholar James Wright with guests Dominic Ambrose and Donnie Jochum. \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. \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a 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
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/gay-novels-of-james-baldwin/
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SUMMARY:Lost & Found (in person literary workshop)
DESCRIPTION:Lost & Found is a literary workshop designed to provide an opportunity for writers to read\, review\, and receive constructive criticism of their work\, especially projects or pieces that are still works-in-progress or have hit a roadblock. Participants are required to bring one page (up to both sides) of material of any genre they’re working on to read aloud. Then\, as a group\, we workshop the piece—asking questions\, providing feedback\, offering solutions\, and so on. The goal is to provide writers with a framework for creative development and a consistent network of feedback. \n(Originally scheduled for August 11th\, please note that this workshop will now take place on Sunday\, August 18th.) \nThis will be the sixth of six sessions scheduled on alternating Sundays. \nRSVP here for the sixth session!\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\nQuestions? Contact moderator Mark Alan Burger here:\nmarkalanburger@gmail.com\n\n  \nModerator bios: \n\nMark Alan Burger is a writer\, poet\, publisher\, and the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Fallible House. His work has appeared in Hello Mr.\, Interview Magazine\, and Vanity Fair\, and has received support from FAWC. He lives in Brooklyn.\n\n  \n\nCortez is a poet and short fiction writer living in Brooklyn\, New York. She is a current MFA candidate at Stony Brook University where she also teaches an undergraduate section of Intro to Creative Writing. She was named a finalist in the 2023 Honeybee Literature Prize in Fiction\, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Brooklyn Rail and The Good Life Review.
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