Reminder: Radar Reading at the Main Library @ Tue Feb 7 6pm - 7pm (Queer Things)

more details » Radar Reading at the Main Library Supported by James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center, Friends of the Public Library, California Arts Council, Walter & Elise Haas Fund, San Francisco Arts Commission, Rainbow Grocery Cooperative, San Francisco Grants for the Arts, Horizons Foundation, Zellerbach Family Foundation and the San Francisco Foundation The RADAR Reading Series Underground + Emerging Writers + Artists at The San Francisco Public Library Tuesday, February 7th 2012 Main Library at the Grove Street Entrance 30 Grove Street San Francisco, CA, 94102 MORGAN BASSICHIS is based in San Francisco, CA and works with Community United Against Violence (CUAV) and the Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP). Morgan's writings on queer politics, transformative justice, and prison abolition have appeared in the Radical History Review and the recent anthologies, Captive Genders and The Revolution Starts at Home, among other publications. Morgan is currently completing a play entitled The Witch House. From Los Angeles, transgender performer and new media artist MICHA CARDENAS. Micha's work deals with the interplay of technology, gender, sex, immigration and biopolitics, and has been presented at such venues as the 2010 California Biennial, the 2009 Merida Biennial, and the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics 7th Encuentro in Bogota, Columbia. Her 365-hour performance, "Becoming Dragon," was staged in Second Life. With Barbara Fornssler she co-authored the book Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs. As a member of the Electronic Disturbance Theater / b.a.n.g lab she helped design the Transborder Immigrant Tool, a GPS device that is designed to help illegal immigrants crossing the US-Mexico border find water stations during their journey. NICK KRIEGER is the author of the memoir Nina Here Nor There, a gender-bending exploration of the land between man and woman. His writing has earned several travel-writing awards, has been published in multiple travel guides, and has appeared in numerous outlets including The Rumpus, The Advocate, 365Gay, and Original Plumbing. A native of New York, Krieger realized at the age of twenty-one that he'd been born on the wrong coast, a malady he corrected by transitioning to San Francisco. He spends his time practicing yoga, eating cereal, and speaking at colleges and conferences about writing and transgender issues. ELLYN MAYBE has performed her poetry all over the country, including Bumbershoot,the Poetry Project, the New School, Taos Poetry Circus, South by Southwest, Lollapalooza, Albuquerque Poetry Festival and Seattle Poetry Festival. She has also read in Europe at the Bristol Poetry Festival, on the BBC, and in poetry slams and readings in Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Stuttgart. She opened the MTV Spoken Wurd Tour in Los Angeles. In addition, she has also read at USC, UCLA, CSUN and Cal State Fullerton, among other colleges. Writer's Digest named her one of ten poets to watch in the new millennium. Her work has been included in many anthologies, including Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution, Poetry Slam, Another City: Writing From Los Angeles, Poetry Nation, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and American Poetry: The Next Generation. She was on the 1998 and 1999 Venice Beach Slam teams. She was seen reading her work in Michael Radford's (Il Postino) film Dancing at the Blue Iguana. Ellyn will be performing with Robbie Fitzsimmons, the keyboard/vocalist from her band, The Ellyn Maybe Band. Robbie is an awesome singer/songwriter who is also the lead vocalist/composer for the international rock-dance duo Rabbits Running. http://www.rabbitsrunning.com/Music.html Hosted with Q+A by Michelle Tea, who will give you a cookie she made with her own two hands. Tuesday, February 7th 2012 San Francisco Public Library Main Branch / 1000 Larkin Street Latino Reading Room / Basement Level 6pm sharp / FREE When Tue Feb 7 6pm – 7pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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