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Sharing this out on behalf of the API Transmasculine Writing Workshop. They are holding a free writing workshop on Feb. 1 at the LGBTQ Center in Oakland. Pre-registration required.

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FREE New LGBTQIA archives-inspired writing by: al aguas Kiyaan Abadani madhvi trivedi-pathak Please note that Maneo Refiloe Mohale cannot be with us on Feb. 20. Watch for Maneo in a future Show Us Your Spines reading. ▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼ al aguas is an artist living and working in Oakland, CA. They earned a BA in Art History and Studio Art (2017) from San Francisco State University and a certificate in Latin American Decolonial Feminisms and Theory (2019) from Escuela de Dialogos Globales CDMX.In short, their visual and written work may include their experience(s) each day embodying self in relation to their indigeneity, gender queerness, financial insecurity, and proximity to other resources like education. They envision a space where these are simulated and calibrated at the artists' discretion. Kiyaan Abadani is a diasporic Iranian artist, writer, and community builder living in the Bay Area.  They’re a disabled & neurodivergent QTPOC cultural worker who loves science fiction, Sufi poetry, creating memes, decolonial thought & practices, and resting on their heatpad. Community organizer and educator, madhvi trivedi-pathak's poetry wards off the evil-eye of state-sanctioned-cis-straight-assimilation and honors the decolonial tongue. They are a queer, non-binary South Asian artist whose work reveals a portal to the poetic praxis of disability justice, azaadi (liberation) and the intergenerational tremors of trauma yet to be resolved.

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Sharing this out on behalf of the API Transmasculine Writing Workshop. They are holding a free writing workshop on Feb. 1 at the LGBTQ Center in Oakland. Pre-registration required.

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"Go West, Young Man." Isn't that the advice every East Coast boy has considered at least once in his life? At nineteen, almost twenty, Ron Bancroft thinks those words sound pretty good. Newly out as transgender, Ron finds himself adrift: kicked out by his family, jilted by his girlfriend, unable to afford to return to college in the fall. So he heads out to Wyoming for a new start, a chance to prove that--even though he was raised as a girl, even though everyone in Boston thinks of him as transgender--he can live as a man.

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Eureka Valley Branch Library launching monthly "Queer & Present" program series, marking the 50th anniversary of San Francisco Pride march. Starting Jan. 15 at 7:30 p.m. with musical legend Blackberri. https://bit.ly/36lzdVM

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Exhibition extended through Feb. 20! In the LGBTQIA Center, Main Library, 3rd floor.

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@abby-stein with book display at Jewish Community Library. Her talk Dec. 3 was a gift to all who were there. Hormel Center copy of her book is on our shelves to read here, while you wait for that borrowing copy you have on hold!

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This weeks’ #fictionfriday is a YA coming of age story set against Pride Week in San Francisco. Kate has run away from a chance to meet Violet, with whom she has been in love with from afar. Mark is an all American boy in love with his best friend, who may or may not feel the same way. They meet at Pride and instantly become best friends. This touching depiction of a friendship between gay and lesbian teens is not often found in literature, and the authors have created authentic characters that we can all relate to. It is a story about queer romance as much as it is one about friendship and solidarity between queer people, and of how it's normal to outgrow your friends and crushes and overcome your fears.

"The pacing and voices of LaCour's and Levithan's alternating points of view are on point, keeping this sweet...tale moving gladly forward." -Kirkus Review

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RADAR Productions & San Francisco Public Library bring you our next round of writing residents, inspired by books, papers, ephemera, videos, and other materials they found in the LGBTQIA archives. Thank you, Alley Cat Books, for hosting us! FEATURING… Alexander Torres Clem Breslin Jianda Monique Muriel Leung

See you there! It’s free.

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Remember when Ivy Alvarez came all the way from New Zealand last October as our special guest for the Filipino American International Book Festival? Well, her book has arrived on our shelves!

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This #fictionfriday recommendation is Rita Indiana's Tentacle, https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/3682436093 or La Mucama de Omicunlé in Spanish. https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/3241200093 Thank you Achy Obejas for this English translation of a breath-stopping book.

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December issue of the London-based Gay Times has arrived in the 3rd floor Hormel Center reading room. DJ Honey Dijon on the cover. Yes, deliciously tactile paper issue! Touch the pages. https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1840156093

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This is a plug for the African American Center across the way from the LGBTQIA Center here on the 3rd floor of the Main Library. Their new exhibit “Same Game Different Smokers” shows how the tobacco industry has exploited Black  and Brown people in the U.S. and around the world for over 400 years. You can see from this example that the advertising imagery is no accident. Come see it. And if you want to dig around in corporate documents for more details, go to www.idl.ucsf.edu. 

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Today's Staff Pick is Pamela Sneed's Kong and Other Works, published in 2009. Poetry has a long shelf-life, stays fresh without preservatives. Check it out, or read the Hormel Center's copy in its forever-home aka the reading room on the 3rd floor of the Main Library. https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/2984952093

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RADAR Productions & San Francisco Public Library bring you our next round of writing residents, inspired by books, papers, ephemera, videos, and other materials they found in the LGBTQIA archives. Thank you, Alley Cat Books, for hosting us! FEATURING... Alexander Torres Clem Breslin Jianda Monique Muriel Leung

See you there! It’s free.

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Hormel Center is super-excited to co-sponsor this reading tonight. If you are in San Francisco tonight at 7, we hope you can make it!