#radarlit

[marinaomi]

@Regrann from @radarproductions - t o m o r r o w ✨✨ we're kicking off pride month with poetry, experimental film, opera, puppets, queer comics and so much more. COME HANG WITH US! ✨✨Featuring @clement_hil @marinaomiart, Ana María Montenegro, Vanessa Lewis, Lydia Greer + Shauna Fallihee ✨6pm // Koret Auditorium-- SF Public lib #radarlit #queerlit #radarsuperstar - #regrann

[mayachapina]

#Repost @radarproductions with @repostapp. ・・・ Last night we took over the Elbo Room. So much queer magic ⚡️⚡️⚡️ @michelleteaz @chachachapina @virgietovar @leidileidi #radarlit #queerlit #litquake #sanfrancisco #litcrawl

[julianadlopera]

Today: come be cute with us at the library. Maisha Z Johnson, Jane McDermott, Hawa Jaan and Yosimar Reyes will blow your mind. Seriously. I'll be your host and there will be cookies.

[radarproductions-blog]

Today: come be cute with us at the library. Maisha Z Johnson, Jane McDermott, Hawa Jaan and Yosimar Reyes will blow your mind. Seriously. I'll be your host and there will be cookies.

[orangehunchback-blog]

Barrett Hathcock Pt 1.

What is the difference between Memphis hot and Jackson hot? Is there a difference? Is D.C. hotter than both?

This is a good question. Memphis is the hottest place I've ever lived. It seems at times during the summer almost Biblically hot, like we’re undergoing a plague. It also gets quite cold in the winter, and I speculate that it has something to do with the city being on the river on top of a big hill but still being itself entirely flat. Also, I don't think there's anything higher than a knee-cap between Little Rock and Memphis so when the wind starts blowing it feels prairie-level intense. 

Jackson gets hot for sure, that kind of stuck-in-world's-largest-jock-strap heat, but Jackson just seems more verdant and prettier than Memphis. The heat seems to work in its favor somehow. Perhaps I'm just idealizing where I grew up. 

However, the hottest place I've ever visited was Charleston, S.C., where I attended a summer wedding. That place was dank, amphibious. It was lovely but you could feel all the buildings and streets rotting from that intense moisture. 

Left to my own devices I will of course talk non-stop about the weather. It's both banal and constantly occupying. Don't get me started on cold though. I complain about the heat but I'm actually afraid of cold the way some people are afraid of heights or snakes.

How did Portable Son get started? There's a strong thread between the stories, was it always a story collection?

The impulse behind the collection—writing individual stories but repeating characters—began in college. I’ve always loved books that do this, how you see characters in waves over time. I sometimes feel like stories that are linked like this are actually truer to how we experience life than more linear or chronologically tidy novels. (I realize I’m generalizing recklessly here.) It seems that we understand our lives through discrete stories, little formed moments of meaning, but that these stories accumulate and contradict and modulate one other as life progresses—life as a roving tumbleweed of constantly revised stories. 

Anyway, at some point in my 20s I started envisioning these stories as a book. But, to be honest, it wasn’t always a story collection. For a long time, the stories were part of something much longer, much more panoramic—a gigantic mess of a novel. But I couldn’t quite figure out how to organize it, and so at some point I decided to split the stories off from the larger novel-like story, and that’s how the story collection came to be.

[mayachapina]

TODAY! Your favorite queer writers take over the Elbo Room during #litcrawl. Featuring @chachachapina @michelleteaz @omgkatmarie and Baruch Porras-Hernandez #radarlit #queerlit #queer #sanfrancisco #litquake #Repost @radarproductions

[radarproductions-blog]

▽▽ August Queer Reading Series at the Library ▽▽

Tuesday, August 11, 2015 San Francisco Public Library   100 Larkin Street Latino/Hispanic Room (basement level) 6PM ==FREE== Hosted by Juliana Delgado Lopera

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. Visit her at www.inkblotarts.org. 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.

[radarproductions-blog]

LAST NIGHT at the RADAR Productions Queering Reading Series!

Thank you everyone who came out. Y’all look cuteeeeeee.