“Civil Liberties on Fire” Inspiring Readings by Activists (SF Main Library)

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Do you fell democracy is eroding. Come be inspired by creators and activists who haven’t given up! Write Now! SF Bay presents “Civil Liberties on Fire” a reading with diverse writers of conscience from Lake, Sonoma and Santa Cruz Counties and the Bay Area. Finding common cause in challenging times. Author and editor Shizue Seigel hosts.

Betty Shamieh, American playwright, author, screenwriter, and actor of Palestinian descent.

Beulah Vega, Mixt-Latine horror writer, political poet, and theatrical artist living and working in the North Bay.

Brenda Marie Yeager, European American Poet Laureate of Lake County, co-hosts the New Darlings online poetry discussion monthly.

Chloe Gentile-Montgomery is a mixed heritage African and European American educator, poet, and social justice advocate based in Santa Clara and Santa Cruz Counties.

James Cagney, Cave Canem fellow and award-winning author of Ghetto Koans: A Personal Archive, Martian: The Saint Of Loneliness, and Black Steel Magnolias In The Hour of Chaos Theory,

Joseph Jason Santiago LaCour, mestizo Spoken Word Poet and Hip-Hop Artist based in Santa Cruz

Kelechi Ubozoh, Nigerian-American writer and mental health advocate draws from the realities of  trauma, race, and mental health. Co-authored the anthology We’ve Been Too Patient

Kimi Sugioka, Poet Laureate of Alameda, author of Wile & Wing, curator for the San Francisco international Arts Festival and Alameda Island Poets,

Shizue Seigel, author, Courting a Man who Doesn’t Talk, and editor of Uncommon Ground, Essential Truths, and Civil Liberties United anthologies.

Susan Ito, memoirist and educator, drew her heritage as Japanese/European American adoptee for her book, I Would Meet You Anywhere

Tehmina Khan, daughter of Indian immigrant scientists, teaches College Writing at UC Berkeley and Poetry for the People at City College of San Francisco. Her work appears in several anthologies including Muslim American Writers at Home,

Tureeda Mikell, African American Story Medicine Woman, author of The Body: Oracle of Memory and Synchronicity: Oracle of Sun Medicine 

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