Radar Reading Series: Indie Writers & Free Cookies | SF Main Library

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“Show Us Your Spines” Indie Writers Reading | SF Main Library

The Radar Reading Series has been going on for over 14 years now and starting 2018 they will be changing the format from a one-time reading 12 times a year to six month-long residencies that result in a bi-monthly presentation of work.

Show Us Your Spines is a month-long writer residency + reading in collaboration with the SF Public Library’s Hormel Center. For a month QTPOC writers will work with Hormel Center LGBT archives around a specific queer theme, writing/producing a piece that will then be read/presented the following month at the Hormel Center.

Each residency cohort will be comprised of four writers/artists, who will spend one month with a section/theme of the archives chosen by both RADAR and the library. During that month they will write/create a piece inspired by the chosen ephemera.

Tuesday, August 4, 2015
“Show Us Your Spines” Indie Writers Reading | SF Main Library

August 4, 2015

Maisha Z Johnson
Maisha Z. Johnson is a writer and activist of Trinidadian descent. As a full-time angry feminist, Maisha writes for publications including Black Girl Dangerous and Everyday Feminism. She has an MFA in Poetry from Pacific University and her first poetry collection, No Parachutes to Carry Me Home, was just released by Punk Hostage Press. She’s also the author of Through Your Own Words: 51 Writing Prompts for Healing and Self-Care and three poetry chapbooks. Her work has been published in numerous journals, nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, and won competitions including Literary Death Match, The Lit Slam, and Portuguese Artists Colony.

Jane McDermott
Oakland resident Jane McDermott’s collection of microfiction Look Busy was published by 14 Hills in November 2014. Her nonfiction has appeared in anthologies and her fiction can be found in Reunion: The Dallas Review; Red Light Lit; Writing Without Walls, and others. She is currently at work on a novel.

Yosimar Reyes
Yosimar Reyes first felt the indelible power of words when people used them against him. Reflecting on their force as an expression of spirit, he realized that he could use words instead as agents of healing. The 26-year-old Guerrero, Mexico-born, East Side San Jose-raised queer poet-activist has since built a life around language, both spoken and penned. In 2009, his first self-published chapbook For Colored Boys Who Speak Softly gained a national audience. Reyes’ spoken word calls attention the plight of queer immigrant youth and has been featured in documentaries, including 2nd Verse: The Rebirth of Poetry and The Legalities of Being. His written work has been anthologized, while he lends his spoken word to galvanize conversations about politics, culture and the struggles of gay, working class and immigrant people.

Hawa Jaan
Hawa is the co-founder of Browntourage. Browntourage is a media agency that works globally with creatives, professionals and collaborators to promote our vision for diversity in aesthetics and lifestyle dedicated to balancing entertainment, media, and activism. From consulting brands on youth and diversity engagement, to multi-media installation projects, we produce and create media that is forward thinking, socially conscious, and devoted to highlighting the work of diverse culture makers, alternative role models and up-and-coming talent.

 

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