El SUPERRITMO! ~
DJ El Kool Kyle y DJ Roger Más ~
Cumbia, Dancehall, Hip-Hop,
Reggaeton, Salsa Buena y mas! ~
$10 ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am
DJ El Kool Kyle y DJ Roger Más ~
Cumbia, Dancehall, Hip-Hop,
Reggaeton, Salsa Buena y mas! ~
$10 ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am
 | WRITERS WITH DRINKS w/ host Charlie Jane Anders ~ $5-20 sliding (all proceeds benefit a local non-profit TBA) ~ Doors at 6:30pm ~ 6:30pm - 9:45pm * When: Saturday, June 11, 2022 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 7 PM * Who: Kirstin Chen, Julia Serano, Shelly Oria, Maurisa Thompson, Jon Papernick, more TBA * How much: $5 to $20 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the TGI Justice Project * Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, CA |
June's Writers With Drinks features brilliant writers tackling reproductive rights, consent, polyamory and more. It's the perfect time for a feminist word party!
Note: We are strictly requiring proof of vaccination, and audience members must remain masked when they are not actively drinking.
About the readers/performers:
Kirstin Chen is the award-winning, best-selling author of three novels. Her latest, Counterfeit, has been recommended by Entertainment Weekly, Oprah Daily, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Good Housekeeping, Parade, The Millions, Electric Lit, and more. She is also the author of Bury What We Cannot Take and Soy Sauce for Beginners. Born and raised in Singapore, she lives in San Francisco.
Julia Serano's latest book is Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back. She is best known for her book Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, which Ms. Magazine ranked #16 on their list of the 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of All Time. Her other notable books include Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive, which was a finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction. Her first full-length foray into fiction, 99 Erics: a Kat Cataclysm faux novel was the winner of the Publishing Triangle’s 2021 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. As a musician, Julia was the lyricist-guitarist-vocalist for the indie-rock trio Bitesize. Julia’s current lo-fi noise-pop solo music project is called *soft vowel sounds*.
Jonathan Papernick was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of the acclaimed short story collection The Ascent of Eli Israel, another collection, There is no Other, and the novels The Book of Stone and I Am My Beloveds. His work has received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal and has been translated into Spanish and Italian. Papernick has taught fiction writing at Emerson College since 2007 and serves as Senior Writer-in-Residence in the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing. He has two sons and will be moving to Providence, Rhode Island with his wife in two weeks…
Maurisa Thompson was born and raised in San Francisco, and is a proud alum of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People. A poet and educator, she is a graduate of UC Riverside’s MFA program and is currently a high school teacher in San Francisco. Her poetry has appeared in The Pedestal Magazine, The Black Scholar, La Bloga, Cosmonauts Avenue, The City is Already Speaking, the anthologies A Feather Floating on the Water: Poems for Our Children and Poesia En Vuelo, and The Haight-Ashbury Journal, which nominated her for a Pushcart Prize. She has collaborated with arts organizations including Richmond's RAW Talent and the Gluck Fellowship program at UC Riverside, and is an alum of VONA, Tin House, CSU Summer Arts, and Napa Valley Writers workshops. Works in progress include her first poetry manuscript that combines history and folklore with her grandparents’ stories from Louisiana and San Francisco, and a middle-grade novel exploring police brutality, which won the support of a Walter Grant from We Need Diverse Books.
Shelly Oria is the editor of the new anthology I Know What’s Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom. She's also the author of New York 1, Tel Aviv 0, which earned nominations for a Lambda Literary Award and the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, among other honors. In 2016, she coauthored a digital novella, CLEAN. She's also the editor of Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings From the Me Too Movement.
Note: We are strictly requiring proof of vaccination, and audience members must remain masked when they are not actively drinking.
About the readers/performers:
Kirstin Chen is the award-winning, best-selling author of three novels. Her latest, Counterfeit, has been recommended by Entertainment Weekly, Oprah Daily, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Good Housekeeping, Parade, The Millions, Electric Lit, and more. She is also the author of Bury What We Cannot Take and Soy Sauce for Beginners. Born and raised in Singapore, she lives in San Francisco.
Julia Serano's latest book is Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back. She is best known for her book Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, which Ms. Magazine ranked #16 on their list of the 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of All Time. Her other notable books include Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive, which was a finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction. Her first full-length foray into fiction, 99 Erics: a Kat Cataclysm faux novel was the winner of the Publishing Triangle’s 2021 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. As a musician, Julia was the lyricist-guitarist-vocalist for the indie-rock trio Bitesize. Julia’s current lo-fi noise-pop solo music project is called *soft vowel sounds*.
Jonathan Papernick was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of the acclaimed short story collection The Ascent of Eli Israel, another collection, There is no Other, and the novels The Book of Stone and I Am My Beloveds. His work has received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal and has been translated into Spanish and Italian. Papernick has taught fiction writing at Emerson College since 2007 and serves as Senior Writer-in-Residence in the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing. He has two sons and will be moving to Providence, Rhode Island with his wife in two weeks…
Maurisa Thompson was born and raised in San Francisco, and is a proud alum of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People. A poet and educator, she is a graduate of UC Riverside’s MFA program and is currently a high school teacher in San Francisco. Her poetry has appeared in The Pedestal Magazine, The Black Scholar, La Bloga, Cosmonauts Avenue, The City is Already Speaking, the anthologies A Feather Floating on the Water: Poems for Our Children and Poesia En Vuelo, and The Haight-Ashbury Journal, which nominated her for a Pushcart Prize. She has collaborated with arts organizations including Richmond's RAW Talent and the Gluck Fellowship program at UC Riverside, and is an alum of VONA, Tin House, CSU Summer Arts, and Napa Valley Writers workshops. Works in progress include her first poetry manuscript that combines history and folklore with her grandparents’ stories from Louisiana and San Francisco, and a middle-grade novel exploring police brutality, which won the support of a Walter Grant from We Need Diverse Books.
Shelly Oria is the editor of the new anthology I Know What’s Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom. She's also the author of New York 1, Tel Aviv 0, which earned nominations for a Lambda Literary Award and the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, among other honors. In 2016, she coauthored a digital novella, CLEAN. She's also the editor of Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings From the Me Too Movement.
