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, November 4, 2014
“Show Us Your Spines” Indie Writers Reading | SF Main Library

November 4, 2014 | Host Virgie Tovar

Jandy Nelson’s debut YA novel, The Sky Is Everywhere (Penguin, 2010) was on multiple Best Books of the Year lists, was a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults pick, and has been translated in over 20 languages. Entertainment Weekly calls her just released second YA novel, I’ll Give You the Sun (Penguin, 2014): “A blazing prismatic explosion of color . . . To read it is a coming-of-age experience in itself.” It has been optioned by Warner Brothers with Denise DeNovi producing and has already been licensed in seventeen countries. Jandy has an MFA in poetry from Brown University and one in writing for children and young adults from VCFA. She lives and writes in San Francisco—not far from the Northern California settings of The Sky Is Everywhere and I’ll Give You the Sun.

Ebin Lee is from Chicago, but is currently living in Portland, Or. This year, they graduated from Pacific Northwest College of Art with a degree in illustration,where they started their ongoing project “A Wretch Like Me,” a series of illustrations and writing that takes a closer look at depression, anxiety, fear, racism and class through the eyes of someone who is Black, Queer and assigned female at birth. They started illustrating when they discovered comics, zines and poster art, realizing that pictures can communicate just as much as words. They have given talks at the Multnomah County Library Zinesters Talk series, as well as yearly at the Portland based group, The Women of Color Zine Workshop.

Mimi Thi Nguyen is an associate professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of the award-winning The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages (Duke, 2012) and co-editor of Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America (Duke, 2007). In her real life, she is a former Punk Planet columnist and Maximumrocknroll contributor who also published zines for over 20 years, including Slander and the compilation zine Race Riot. In 2012 and 2013, she participated in the POC Zine Project/Race Riot! Tour to discuss and read from zines by people of color, and continues to organize readings and events around punk and politics.

James Tracy grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and is the co-founder of the San Francisco Community Land Trust. His current book is Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes From San Francisco’s Housing Wars. With Amy Sonnie, authored Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times. He is part of the organizing committee of the upcoming Howard Zinn Book Fair.

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