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Cave Canem » Workshops

Since 1999, nearly 1000 emerging poets have participated in Cave Canem’s community-based workshops, rare opportunities to work with accomplished poets for free or low-cost fees. Limited to an enrollment of 12-15, eight and ten-session workshops offer rigorous instruction, careful critique and an introduction to the work of established poets—all within the welcoming environment of our Brooklyn, NY loft. “Time Keeping and Time Travel” with Anastacia-Reneé In this workshop, participants will be in conversation with the work of Audre Lorde and Octavia Butler. Participants will examine multi-genre writing and poetic craft elements to build poems that bend, restructure and reimagine “form.” Participants will be creatively inspired by the notion that the “paranormal” is normal and traditional fiction can inhabit a poem. The goal for all workshop participants is to complete the course with two drafts and confidently share them. Dates: Wednesdays, 6-9 pm. September 5, 12, 19, 26; October 3, 10, 17, 24, 31; culminating reading: November 7. Where: Cave Canem, 20 Jay Street, Suite 310-A, Brooklyn, NY. Who’s eligible: Black poets of African descent living in New York City’s five boroughs. Individuals who are not enrolled full-time in a degree-granting program. Individuals who can commit to attending all ten sessions. Individuals who are not Cave Canem fellows. Writers who have not published more than one collection of poetry with a commercial press. This is a tuition-free workshop, funded by The Jerome Foundation. The instructor will review applications and select up to 15 participants, with preference given to individuals who have attended fewer than three Cave Canem workshops. The deadline to apply is August 12, 2018 at 11:59 pm EST. Applicants will be notified by August 20, 2018. Applications will be accepted via Submittable only. Click here to apply. Anastacia-Renee is the current Seattle Civic Poet, recipient of the 2017 Artist of the Year Award, and former 2015-2017 Poet-in-Residence at Hugo House. She is the author of five books: Forget It (Black Radish Books), (v.), (Gramma Press) 26, (Dancing Girl Press), Kiss Me Doll Face (Gramma Press) and Answer(Me) (Winged City Chapbooks, Argus Press) and has received writing fellowships from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, VONA, Artist Trust and Jack Straw, as well as a writing residency from Ragdale. Her theatrical mixed-media project, 9 Ounces: A One Woman Show, is a multivalent play unapologetically downward dogging its way through class, race, culture, oppression, depression, survival and epiphany. Her cross-genre writing has appeared in the anthologies: Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism, Sinister Wisdom: Black Lesbians—We Are the Revolution, Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks and: Split this Rock, Painted Bride Quarterly, Crab Creek Review, Seattle Review, Bone Bouquet, Duende, Poetry Northwest, Synaethesia, Banqueted, Torch and many more. She teaches poetry and creative writing at Hugo House and Seattle University and lives as a superhero in Seattle with her wife and dog. “Procedures, Discomforts and Retellings” with LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs Participants will discuss what provokes/inspires them to write. Is it identity? Mothers? Politics? Language? Bullshit? Culturally one might write as one’s ancestors might have spoken. Perhaps some are not meant to write in a linear fashion. To be “roundabout” or circular may be closer to how one’s ear is innately tuned. During this workshop, participants will examine/dismantle, misread/fail for the sake of finding out what to write about and what momentarily terrifies to the point of stopping altogether. Through a number of restraints and recipes, participants will modify their “engines.” Expect no finished work. as the procedures explored will be durational and dependent upon individual comfort levels. Participants will read new and not so new works by Celina Su, Tusiata Avia, Clarence Major, Harryette Mullen and dg nanouk okpik, among others. Additionally, participants will listen to and view a number of recordings by performance based artists and musicians who utilize spoken word. Dates: Tuesdays, 6-8:30 pm. October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; November 6, 13; culminating reading: November 27. Where: Cave Canem Foundation, 20 Jay Street, Suite 310-A, Brooklyn, NY Who’s eligible: Adult poets of color living in New York City’s five boroughs. Poets at the early-to-intermediate stage of their writing endeavors. Individuals who can commit to attending all eight sessions. Individuals who are not enrolled full-time in a degree-granting program. Individuals who are not Cave Canem fellows. Writers who have not published more than one collection of poetry with a commercial press. Suggested Donation: $30 – $240 Up to 15 participants will be selected by lottery, with preference given to applicants who have attended fewer than three workshops. Applications will be accepted via Submittable only. The deadline to apply is August 26, 2018 at 11:59 pm EST. Applicants will be notified by August 28, 2018. Applications will be accepted via Submittable only. Click here to apply. A writer, vocalist and sound artist, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs is the author of TwERK (Belladonna, 2013). Her interdisciplinary work has been featured at the Brooklyn Museum, the Poesiefestival in Berlin, Museum of Modern Art, the QOW conference in Slovakia, the International Poetry Festival in Bucharest, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, the 56th Venice Biennale and in Beijing as a Red Gate Artist in Residence. As a curator and director, she has staged events at BAM Café, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, The David Rubenstein Atrium, The Highline, Poets House and El Museo del Barrio. LaTasha is the recipient of numerous awards; of them include New York Foundation for the Arts, Barbara Deming Memorial Grant, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, the Japan-US Friendship Commission, Creative Capital and the Whiting Foundation Literary Award. She lives in Harlem. Payment via PayPal Poetry Conversations Amount: Total $0.00 Funder, New York City Fall and Spring Workshops: Jerome Foundation Funders, Poetry Conversations Workshops: This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; Amazon Literary Partnership; conEdison Consolidated Edison Company of New York; National Endowment for the Arts; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the Whiting Foundation.

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[Qsc_asuw] SPRING! Newsletter Week 6

Welcome to Week 6! <3

QTBIPOC Artist Spotlight of the Week:

YallaRoza

YallaRoza is a queer, Muslim artist of colour who is currently based in Tkaronto/Toronto (Dish with One Spoon Territory). Her art centres qtpoc and explores themes of radical self-love, collective care and healing.

The Queer & Trans People of Color Alliance (QTPOCA) will be meeting this Friday, location TBD!

LAVISH QTPOC Art Showcase (Tuesday, May 21, 2019) 6:30 PM - 9 PM @ Ethnic Cultural Theater 3931 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle, Washington 98105

Lavish is a multi-arts showcase opportunity centering Queer and Trans People of Color (QTPoC). We will provide a platform for UW students to receive mentorship (by way of building a sustained relationship with a teaching artist) and community building among QTPoCs and artists on campus and in the greater Seattle community.

There are many ways to participate in the showcase. Opportunities include (but are not limited to): emcees/MC, deejays/DJ, performance artists, fine artists, spoken word, poetry, musicians, dramaturge, stage managers, community organizers, and more.

The showcase is student-driven and its final form will be created organically among the participating artists. Lavish centers artists who identify as QTPoC. White allies/accomplices are also welcome to participate. Artists of any experience level are enthusiastically invited to participate in this low stakes/high support experience.

Please consider filling out the following form if you are interested in participating at Lavish: https://forms.gle/dq7TMqV8YQAfvtu2A We will host an Informational Session on May 3, 2019, 3:00PM at the Q Center (HUB 315). Note: Prospective performers may submit their application using this form or in person at the informational session. Questions? Please contact Juan Franco or Jaimée Marsh @ the Q Center: [email protected] or 206-897-1430. Accessibility Information:

The Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Theatre is near landmarks such as Alder Hall and Lander Hall

For a map, search HUB on the campus maps: www.washington.edu/map

The ECC’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible. There is an elevator in the building

There are universal, all-gender bathrooms in the building, as well as gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls.

The ECT is not kept scent-free, but we ask that you do not wear scented/fragranced products (e.g. perfume, hair products) or essential oils to/in the event in order to make the space accessible to those with chemical injury or multiple chemical sensitivity.

University District Metro Bus Routes can be found here: metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/bus/neighborhoods/university_district.html

Legendary Children

(Friday, May 10, 2019) 8 - 11 PM @ Seattle Art Museum 1300 1st Ave, Seattle, Washington 98101

Legendary Children is an all-ages celebration of house and ball culture and queer and transgender Black, Indigenous, and people of color (QTBIPOC) communities. Optional RSVP is encouraged.

Celebrate Legendary Children on May 10! Our May edition celebrates Indigenous Sovereignty and house-and-ball culture, along with our broader QTPOC (Queer and Trans) communities. Legendary Children is where arts and social justice get real, with QTPOC voices ringing loud and clear.

Enjoy fab in-gallery performances, hot DJs, and the sublime artistry of the Pacific Northwest's house-and-ball performers and premier drag royalty (kings, queens, and the crowns in between). Come for the art, stay for the public runway. Plus, don’t miss the SAM special exhibition "Like a Hammer" by Jeffrey Gibson and a deluxe Seattle Public Library reading station focused on trans and queer BIPOC authors.

This event is all ages, but must be 21+ and have ID to drink. Legendary Children is made possible with generous support from The Seattle Public Library Foundation and the Seattle Art Museum. Co-presented with: Indigenize Productions Somos Seattle Official Pride ASIA Q Center at the University of Washington festival:festival 2019 Hyena Culture Photo credit Meagan Mishra (photographer) Erik Warren (HMUA)

The Luxurious "No" (Friday, May 10, 2019) 1- 3 PM @ Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center 3931 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle, Washington 98105

In the Chicano Room!

Join us for an afternoon of saying "no" with Seattle civic Poet Anastacia- Reneé Tolbert!

Here's her website: https://www.anastacia-renee.com/ Please RSVP At this link! https://tinyurl.com/ARTPoetWS Our planning committee is composed of Indigenous women who represent interdisciplinary academic fields of study and philanthropy in the Northwest Coast; women who are committed to Indigenous food sovereignty and environmental justice, and whose lived and scholarly experiences, personal passions, and academic research are firmly grounded in their homelands and communities. We volunteer our time to host this annual community-driven event as we recognize the need to come together in dialogue and action as we build collaborative networks to sustain our Indigenous food practices and preserve our healthy relationships to the land, water, and all living things. ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION: The Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Theatre is near landmarks such as Alder Hall and Lander Hall. For a map, search HUB on the campus maps: www.washington.edu/maps The ECC’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible. There is an elevator in the building. There are universal, all-gender bathrooms in the building, as well as gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls. The ECT is not kept scent-free, but we ask that you do not wear scented/fragranced products (e.g. perfume, hair products) or essential oils to/in the event in order to make the space accessible to those with chemical injury or multiple chemical sensitivity. University District Metro Bus Routes can be found here: metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/bus/neighborhoods/university_district.html

Black Radical Imagination: Fugitive Trajectories (Saturday, May 11, 2019) 1-3 PM @ Frye Art Museum Auditorium 704 Terry Ave, Seattle, Washington 98104

Black Radical Imagination: Fugitive Trajectories is a film showcase programmed by Jheanelle Brown and Darol Olu Kae, originally co-founded by Erin Christovale and Amir George.

Black Radical Imagination is an international touring program of experimental short films emphasizing new stories from within the African diaspora. The series builds on afro futurist, afro surrealist, and magical realist aesthetics to interrogate identity in the context of cinema. Black Radical Imagination has screened in museums, art spaces, and film festivals, most notably MCA Chicago, MoMA PS1, Black Star Film Festival, and articule in Montréal.

This year’s showcase, FUGITIVE TRAJECTORIES meditates on the ways black people tend to the complexities of our lives while forced to move within, through, and around structuring narratives of power, violence, confinement, and trauma—thereby negotiating how the multi-dimensionality of diasporic blackness is understood in relationship to prevailing notions of death, resistance, and freedom. The films featured in this program explore concepts of grief, kinship, an idealized homeland, and the dynamism of blackness and black culture.

FILMS Garden by Alima Lee 2017, 5 minutes Garden focuses on black women's healing and daily rituals in order to overcome anxiety & depression on a daily basis. Our protagonist struggles, yet persists to honor herself by accomplishing tasks that seem mundane but are essential for her survival. Clean Water by Kamau Wainaina 2017, 7 minutes In a three-part visual soliloquy, Wainaina outlines his ideological journey: immigrating from Kenya to England, and finally New York. Beginning from his parent’s earliest fears and hopes of what life in "the West" would bring to where he is now, Wainaina explores how he sees the world, how others see him, and the ways in which the two perspectives interact with each other in contemporary global society, portraying a cognitive journey that he believes many African immigrants experience in their own ways. Fluid Frontiers by Ephraim Asili 2017, 23 minutes The fifth and final film in an ongoing series of films exploring Asili’s personal relationship to the African Diaspora. Shot along the Detroit River, Fluid Frontiers explores the relationship between concepts of resistance and liberation exemplified by the Underground Railroad, Broadside Press, and works by local Detroit artists. All of the poems are read from original copies of Broadside Press publications by natives of the Detroit Windsor region and were shot without rehearsal. Mugabo by Amelia Umuhire 2016, 7 minutes A short experimental film about a young girl's return to the idealized homeland, a place full of borrowed memories. Rebirth is Necessary by Jenn Nkiru 2017, 10 minutes This film explores the magic and dynamism of Blackness in a realm where time and space are altered. The now, the past, and the future are rethought and reordered to create something soulful and mind-bendingly visceral. Unfolding through the gaze of Jenn Nkiru, it is an audio-visual feast, which pulls on broad yet unique sound and visual references to push the story forward. The soundtrack features music and sounds from James Baldwin, Sun Ra, Chance the Rapper, Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment, Rotary Connection, Pharaoh Sanders, and Shafiq Husayn. It also includes quotes and moments from Alice Coltrane, Audre Lorde, Kwame Nkrumah, Sun Ra, and James Baldwin. Under Bone by dana washington 2017, 5 minutes A narrated experimental drama featuring ethereal vignettes linked by a woman’s devotion, grief, and ancestral evocation, as she traverses stories beneath her rib cage. --- REGISTRATION Tickets to this program are free of charge, and our seating capacity is limited. Free tickets, limit 2 per person, may be reserved in advance, up to two days before the program. The reserved tickets may be picked up on the day of the program at the desk in the foyer outside the auditorium. There is no late seating, so please arrive at least 15 minutes early. All unclaimed tickets (regardless of reservations) will be released to standby 10 minutes before the program! TICKETING On the day of the program, pre-registered and standby tickets will be available at the desk in the foyer outside the auditorium. Tickets for Members may be picked up beginning one hour before the program. Pre-registered tickets for nonmembers may be picked up beginning 30 minutes before the program. All unclaimed tickets (regardless of reservations) will be released to standby 10 minutes before the program.

Collective Liberation Workshop (Thursday, May 9) 6:30 - 7:30 PM @ Q Center Broadening Our Vision: Collective Liberation through Black & Arab Solidarity Presented by Anisa Jackson and Alia Taqieddin Poster Design: Eli Kahn Please consider completing the following form as an RSVP: https://forms.gle/KGQyDGDd5Y85agy88 The purpose of this workshop is to explore collective liberation through constructions of the “other”. We will discuss overlapping struggles against white supremacy and western imperialism, while reframing our conceptions of solidarity away from shared lenses informed by oppression and towards shared lenses informed by liberation. What systems and institutions today make it important to use a multi-issue approach to organizing? How can we consider the similarities and unique distinctions between Orientalism & AntiBlackness as tools to bridge gaps between organizers and imagine a shared future? How do we draw on contemporary examples of Black and Arab solidarity to move beyond theorizing into action-based, collective organizing? Alia Taqieddin is a Seattle-based organizer of mixed Arab descent. She graduated in 2018 with her degree in Community Health and an interdisciplinary concentration in Critical Arab Diaspora Studies at WWU. Alia co-founded her campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. She has also worked with SWANA-LA, an anti-imperialist collective that aims to raise political consciousness and advocate for the self-determination of all people from the Southwest Asian and North African regions and their diasporas. Her work can be found in various conferences in Bellingham, Seattle, and Los Angeles, as course syllabi, and in publications including Jaffat El Aqlam and Mondoweiss. Alia currently works at the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project as a legal advocate for immigrants facing detention. She continues to build a critical conciousness around abolition, drawing from Women of Color feminist thought and the stories and imaginations of her cousins, and aunts and grandmother in historical Bilad al Sham. Anisa Jackson is an artist, writer, and organizer of South Asian and Afro-Caribbean descent based in Seattle. With a background in geography, Anisa’s research-based practice draws on care ethics and black feminist thought. Their work has appeared as installation, moving image, and as print and digital text. They are the project manger of #BecauseWeveRead, a radical international book club with over 30 chapters internationally; and facilitator for miXed, a zine collective which centers the experiences of multi-racial, multi-ethnic, trans-racially adopted folx and those who hold a multitude of identities. Anisa graduated from the University of Washington in 2015 where their research explored relational poverty knowledge and geographies of embodiments, and they will be starting a doctoral program in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU in the fall of 2019. ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The Husky Union Building is near landmarks such as Allen Library, Padelford and Sieg.

For a map, search HUB on the campus maps:http://www.washington.edu/maps/

The HUB’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible and the common area is to the right of the main desk.

An all-genders restroom can be found at the 3rd floor, down the hallway from the Q Center. Gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls can be found on each floor of the HUB.

The HUB IS not kept scent-free but we ask that you do not wear scented/fragranced products (e.g. perfume, hair products) or essential oils to/in the Q Center in order to make the space accessible to those with chemical injury or multiple chemical sensitivity.

ASUW QSC 17th Annual DRAG SHOW (Thursday, May 16, 2019) 7:30 PM - 10 PM @ HUB Lyceum The ASUW Queer Student Commission is proud to present this year's ASUW QSC Drag Show! This historic event is a showcase of student and local drag performers from the UW and Seattle community. featuring a queer student art market! if you are interested in vending art, please fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf7opdkIGeiGSOXGTaBeUi1o3M94H6NqYqSG1eIDKWsIp4MkA/viewform?usp=sf_link Directions - The HUB is near landmarks such as Mary Gates Hall and Drumheller Fountain. For a map, search HUB on the campus maps:http://www.washington.edu/maps/ - University District Metro Bus Routes can be found here: http://metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/bus/neighborhoods/university_district.html - Driving directions can be found at: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Husky+Union+Building/@47.655762,-122.3076257,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x5490148d64534c71:0xc91793fd02335246 - The Central Plaza Parking Garage is the largest parking lot to the close to the HUB. Accessible parking is available in the lot located next to the HUB. Additional information can be found at: https://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/park - There is also potential street parking surrounding the campus, on 15th Ave, University Way, and Brooklyn Ave. ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

We are in the process of securing CART captioning for the event.

The HUB front entrance is wheelchair accessible.

The HUB Lyceum is located on the first floor, to the right of the entrance. It is a reception space, with overhead and natural lighting. There are large windows on the right side wall of the Lyceum.

All gender restrooms will be available on the first floor of the HUB on the night of the event. There is also an all gender restroom on the third floor of the HUB.

The HUB is not kept scent-free but we ask that you do not wear scented/fragranced products (e.g. perfume, hair products) or essential oils to/in the HUB in order to make the space accessible to those with chemical injury or multiple chemical sensitivity. We will have baking soda and scent free soap available if folks are asked to wash off scents.

For more information about MCS and being fragrance-free:

http://billierain.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Myths-and-Facts-About-Chemical-Sensitivity.pdf

To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: 206.543.6450/V, 206.543.6452/TTY, 206.685.7264 (FAX), or e-mail [email protected].

If you have questions, concerns or accessibility details that were not addressed here email [email protected]!

All updates concerning the event and its accessibility will be posted here.

Gathering Our Matriarchs - Addressing Our MMIWG (Sunday, May 12, 2019) 12 PM - 8 PM @ Peace Arch Park 19 A St, Blaine, Washington 98230

Come and join us on Mother's Day and help honor our Matriarchs. With our growing awareness of our Missing and Murdered Indigenous People. We want to Decolonize our people and bring them together. We want our Indigenous Women to come together and help resolve some of our issues that are facing our people yesterday, today, and tomorrow. - Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Washington will be walking from Olympia WA beginning May 5, 2019 during the National Day of Awareness for our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. They will arrive to the PeaceArch Mother's Day. We encourage other organizers to Walk, Run, or March and join us! - Potluck Salmon Dinner will be served. Share your favorite food and drink. Bring your Matriarchs, your medicines, songs, your drum, your rattles, and prayers. *Drug and alcohol-free event *We are not responsible for injury, theft, or stolen items.

Transgender & Gender Diverse Support & Social Group (Wednesday, May 8, 2019) 6-8 PM @ U.T.O.P.I.A Seattle 205 E. Meeker St. Kent, Washington 98032

[trans] ACTION is a support/social group for sex workers that is held every first Wednesday of every month. It is an opportunity that provides sex workers a safe space to engage in topical discussions relating to their life and/or work. This gathering is open to transgender and gender diverse sex workers with current or past experience in the sex trade.

Discussions include topics such as:

*Safety and self- care

*Decriminalization and Destigmatization of sex work

*Know your rights training

*Legal assistance

*Employment & housing

[trans] ACTION promotes and values confidentiality regarding interactions within the group.

The undisclosed location has ample parking, all-gender and ADA-accessible restroom. Come and build community with us! For more information please email Ara-lei at [email protected] Upcoming Dates :

Wed May 8 (6-8pm)

Wed June 12 (6-8pm)

DARK AT DUSK - The Final Suicide (Friday, May 10, 2019) 7 PM -10 PM @ Gay City: Seattle's LGBTQ Center 517 E Pike St, Seattle, Washington 98122 Nic Masangkay Presents... DARK AT DUSK - The Final Suicide

After a medication overdose, our protagonist lays unconscious at a Seattle hospital. Piecing together their past via music, film, and spoken word poetry, we retrace what led Them to suicide - perhaps They aren’t the true killer. Find out if They live to tell Their own story: May 2019.

Cast and Team: Brian is Ze Falon Sierra Guayaba Moonyeka Lourdez Velasco Son the Rhemic Queerbigan Vanna Zaragoza Zora Seboulisa

Help compensate this talented team at http://www.patreon.com/nicmasangkay.

More information on the album and show at http://www.nicmasangkay.com/dark-at-dusk.

Project made possible in part by Jack Straw Cultural Center's Artist Support Program.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The Calamus Auditorium at Gay City is ADA accessible & minimally scented.

There are two single-stall all-gender restrooms.

There will be scent free soap in the restrooms. More info: gaycity.org/access

Seattle Launch: Tongue-Breaker (Tuesday, May 14, 2019) 7 PM - 9 PM @ Third Place Books Seward Park 5041 Wilson Ave S, Seattle, Washington 98118 Seattle family, please come celebrate the New York launch of writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's latest book of poetry, Tonguebreaker.

Tonguebreaker is about surviving the unsurvivable: living through hate crimes, the suicides of queer kin, and the rise of fascism while falling in love and walking through your beloved's neighbourhood in Queens. Building on LLPS' groundbreaking work in Bodymap, Tonguebreaker is an unmitigated force of disabled queer-of-colour nature, narrating disabled femme-of-colour moments on the pulloff of the 80 in West Oakland, the street, and the bed. Tonguebreaker dreams unafraid femme futures where we live -- a ritual for our collective continued survival.

about the weirdo who wrote the poems: LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA is a queer disabled femme writer, cultural worker and educator of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ascent. They are the author of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home (short-listed for the Lambda and Publishing Triangle Awards, ALA Above the Rainbow List), Bodymap (short listed for the Publishing Triangle Award) ,Love Cake (Lambda Literary Award winner), and Consensual Genocide, and co-editor of The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities. Their next book, Beyond Survival: Stories and Strategies From the Transformative Justice Movement (co-edited with Ejeris Dixon) is forthcoming in 2020. A lead artist with Sins Invalid, her writing has been widely published, with recent work in PBS Newshour, Poets.org's Poetry and the Body folio, The Deaf Poets Society, Bitch, Self, TruthOut and The Body is Not an Apology. She is a VONA Fellow and holds an MFA from Mills College. She is also a rust belt poet, a Sri Lankan with a white mom, a femme over 40, a grassroots intellectual, a survivor who is hard to kill. ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION: wheelchair accessible including bathrooms, armless chairs available, coffee tea and snacks for sale, please come fragrance-free. Free. Bring your kids.

Let’s Talk is a free program that connects UW students with support from experienced counselors from the Counseling Center and Hall Health Center without an appointment. Counselors hold drop-in hours at four sites on campus:

Mondays, 2-4 PM, Odegaard Library Room 222

Tuesdays, 2-4 PM, Ethnic Cultural Center Room 306

Wednesdays, 2-4 PM, Q Center (HUB 315)

Thursdays, 2-4 PM, Mary Gates Hall Room 134E

Let’s Talk offers informal consultation – it is not a substitute for regular therapy, counseling, or psychiatric care. To learn more, visit letstalk.washington.edu. The HUB’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible and the common area is to the right of the main desk. An all-genders restroom can be found at the 3rd floor, down the hallway from the Q Center. Gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls can be found on each floor of the HUB. The HUB IS not kept scent-free but we ask that you do not wear scented/fragranced products (e.g. perfume, hair products) or essential oils to/in the Q Center in order to make the space accessible to those with chemical injury or multiple chemical sensitivity.

Thank you for being a part of our community <3 We are so glad that you are here, and we are so glad to get to know you! Have questions about the QSC? Just want to get involved? Find our office hours online at hours.asuw.org. To hear more from the QSC be sure to like us on facebook, and follow us on twitter & instagram to stay up to date with all queer and trans related happenings on campus and in Seattle! With love, Mehria, Outreach & Engagement Intern.

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Cephalopod Appreciation Society 2019

(poster design by Ryan Diaz)

2019 CEPHALOPOD APPRECIATION SOCIETY

LOCATION: Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, Seattle, WA

DATE: Wed, May 1st, 2019

TIME: 7:00-9:00 p.m.

COST: Free!

AUDIENCE: All Ages! Open to all!

MORE INFO: https://www.facebook.com/events/1072083722974446/

https://hugohouse.org/events/cephalopod-appreciation-society-2/

DESCRIPTION: The annual community gathering of the original CEPHALOPOD APPRECIATION SOCIETY, founded by poet and science-lover Sierra Nelson in 2000. Get ready to share your love and learn some more about the Octopus, Squid, Chambered Nautilus, and Cuttlefish (special shout out Kraken, R.I.P. ammonites) through poetry, music, dance, film, science, art and more! Whether you are a long-time fan and C.A.S. member, or just curious to discover more about these stunning and intelligent creatures, we hope you will come celebrate them with us!

Sneak peek at this year’s line-up:

* Lori Goldston (music) w/ videos by our local legend Diver Laura

* Sarah Paul Ocampo (dance), w/ dancers Diana Cardiff, Karen de Luna, & Sara Jinks; Ken Jarvey (music)

* Kevin Craft (poetry)

* Shankar Narayan (poetry)

* Elaina Ellis (poetry)

* Seattle Civic Poet Anastacia Reneé (poetry)

* Jen Strongin (science & photography)

* Britta Johnson (art & stickers)

* Susan Robb (art)

* Angelina Villalobos (art)

* Clare E. Johnson (art)

* Jeremy Buben (art local sightings)

* Rachel Kessler (live scroll!)

* The Merfolk (w/ Isaac Vicknair) & the Eclectic Cloggers (music & dance)

* MORE!!

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[Qsc_asuw] SPRING! Newsletter Week 3

Welcome to Week 3! <3

QTBIPOC Artist Spotlight of the Week:

Sonia Lazo

Illustrator and graphic design student Illustrator from small and tropical El Salvador. Sonia Lazo is creating attention-getting art. Her lively, intriguing work addresses not only the world we live in but also unseen worlds—the land of the past and the realms of myth and fantasy.

The QSC Director is moving on to other opportunities. Now, it's your turn to take a swing at change-making and advocacy! Apply today to be the new QSC Director!

Applications close April 21st, 2019 at 11:55 pm. In addition, every position at ASUW is hiring! If you're interested in serving in different capacities, check out all available positions here!

The mission of the Queer Student Commission (QSC) is to first support, educate, and to provide an open-minded environment for queer UW students. In addition, it aims to provide non-heteronormative, anti-racist, non-ableist and non-sexist programming, services, and atmospheres. The commission aims to create an anti-oppressive community by funding, sponsoring and endorsing events, ideas and information that share these anti-oppressive principles, promoting community, and working to increase acceptance of queer students. The QSC also values the development of leadership skills among its members by encouraging them to be involved with commission activities and operations. Furthermore, the QSC commits to itself to inclusivity and intersectional activism by maintaining strong relationships with other ASUW Commissions, student groups, community groups, and UW faculty and the Student Activities Office (SAO) staff.

The Queer & Trans People of Color Alliance (QTPOCA) will ��be meeting this Friday, location TBD!

Machismo and Toxic Masculinity (Monday, April 15, 2019) 6 PM - 8 PM @ ECC Unity Room ASUW SARVA and ASUW La Raza Present:

A roundtable dissection of machismo and toxic masculinity in the Latinx community with La Raza Student Commission.

Celebration of National Poetry Month! (Tuesday, April 16, 2019) 7 PM - 9 PM @ Warby Parker (305 East Pine Street, Seattle) 305 East Pine Street, Seattle, Washington 98102

SAL is delighted to partner with Warby Parker to present a free poetry reading at Warby Parker Capitol Hill. This celebration features 2016/17 Youth Poet Laureate, Maven Gardner; members of the 2018/19 Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Cohort, Maia Ruth Pody, Alex Newsom, and Kiyoshi Sakauye; Washington State Poet Laureate Claudia Castro Luna; and Seattle Civic Poet Anastacia-Reneé.

Seattle Reads presents Thi Bui (Tuesday, April 16) 6:30 - 8 PM @ Asian Counseling and Referral Service (ACRS)

3639 Martin Luther King Jr Way S, Seattle, Washington 98144

Thi Bui will discuss "The Best We Could Do." The evening will also feature a staged reading from the book, adapted by Susan Lieu and directed by Kathy Hsieh, in partnership with Book-It Repertory Theatre.

"The Best We Could Do" is a haunting memoir about the search for a better future and a longing for a simpler past. Thi Bui documents her family’s daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves in America. As the child of a country and a war she can’t remember, Bui’s dreamlike artwork brings to life her journey to understanding her own identity in a way that only comics can.

Thi Bui was born in Vietnam three months before the end of the Vietnam War, and came to the United States in 1978 as part of the “boat people” wave of refugees from Southeast Asia. Her debut graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do (Abrams ComicArts, 2017), has been selected as UCLA’s Common Book for 2017, a National Book Critics Circle finalist in autobiography, an Eisner Award finalist in Reality Based Comics, and made several Best of 2017 book lists, including Bill Gates’s top five picks. Bui is also the Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator of A Different Pond, a picture book by the poet Bao Phi (Capstone, 2017). Her short comics can be found online at the Nib, PEN America, and BOOM California. Seattle Reads is a “one book, one city” program, where people are encouraged to read and discuss the same book. It’s designed to deepen engagement in literature through reading and discussion. - Everyone is invited to participate in Seattle Reads by reading the featured book, joining in a book discussion, and/or attending programs with the featured writer.

Baile Folklórico comes to the University of Washington (Wednesday, April 17) 7-9 PM @ wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ - Intellectual House

Come join us at the Intellectual House to learn how to dance the traditional Mexican dance known as Baile Folklórico. The instructors will be from the group "Ballet Folklorico Angeles de México". We ask for you to bring small heels or flats (non-marking shoes) and water is encouraged! The event is free, for UW students only. Any questions please email [email protected].

(Tuesday, April 16) 7-9PM @ Elliott Bay Book Company 1521 10th Ave, Seattle, Washington 98122

Hanif Abdurraqib at Elliott Bay Book Company

Elliott Bay Book Company presents Hanif Abdurraqib for his New York Times Bestselling book GO AHEAD IN THE RAIN.

How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders. Seventeen years after their last album, they resurrected themselves with an intense, socially conscious record, We Got It from Here . . . Thank You 4 Your Service, which arrived when fans needed it most, in the aftermath of the 2016 election. Poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib digs into the group’s history and draws from his own experience to reflect on how its distinctive sound resonated among fans like himself. The result is as ambitious and genre-bending as the rap group itself.

Abdurraqib traces the Tribe’s creative career, from their early days as part of the Afrocentric rap collective known as the Native Tongues, through their first three classic albums, to their eventual breakup and long hiatus. Their work is placed in the context of the broader rap landscape of the 1990s, one upended by sampling laws that forced a reinvention in production methods, the East Coast-West Coast rivalry that threatened to destroy the genre, and some record labels’ shift from focusing on groups to individual MCs. Throughout the narrative Abdurraqib connects the music and cultural history to their street-level impact. Whether he’s remembering The Source magazine cover announcing the Tribe’s 1998 breakup or writing personal letters to the group after bandmate Phife Dawg’s death, Abdurraqib seeks the deeper truths of A Tribe Called Quest; truths that—like the low end, the bass—are not simply heard in the head, but felt in the chest. This event is Free and Open to the Public.

DISABILITY MONTH APRIL 2019

Sara Acevedo: Building Collectively Toward Institutional Access

(Wednesday, April 17) 5-6 PM @ HUB 340

F*** Stairs Kick Off

(Friday, April 19) 4-5 PM @ HUB 340

Disability Studies Program Brown Bag Sharan Brown

(Tuesday, April 30) 12-1 PM @ MGH 024

Sexual Assault Open Mic

(Tuesday, April 30) 5-7 PM@ HUB 340

ASUW SDC Presents: ASL Workshop (Thursday, April 18) 5-7 PM @ HUB 332

Learn the basics of American Sign Language from the UW ASL Club, featuring presentations from TEDxUCLA speaker Austin Vaday and UW Professor Lance Forshay.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION

CART captioning and ASL/voice interpretation will be provided.

This event is a scent-free space! Please refrain from using scented products if you will be in attendance.

F*** Stairs Kick Off (Friday, April 19) 4-5 PM @ HUB 340

Come learn about the purpose of the pledge, hear from Disability Rights advocates, and celebrate the beginning of our 2019 F*** Stairs campaign!

There will be donuts, veggies, coffee/tea, and lemonade! (Vegan/gluten free options available)

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

CART Captioning will be provided.

This is a scent free event! Please refrain from using scented products if you plan on attending.

2019 Youth Speaks Seattle Grand Slam (Friday, April 19) 6-10 PM @ Kings Hall MS LLC 2929 27th Ave S, Seattle, Washington 98144

After months of preliminary slams, join Youth Speaks Seattle in our finale and the biggest youth poetry event of the year: GRAND SLAM.

10 of the highest-scoring poets of the season grace the stage for one transformative night of competition, storytelling, and community celebration. By the end of the night, the top 5 poets will be chosen to represent Team Seattle at renowned international youth poetry festival, Brave New Voices, this year in Las Vegas. You don't want to miss this!

TICKETS: $10 for youth $20 for adults Tickets available at the door and Brown Paper Tickets. Email slam@artscorps for discounts on groups of 5+ youth ($7)! HOSTED BY: Youth Speaks Seattle teaching artists, award-winning poets Ebo Barton, and Youth Poet Laureate of Seattle, Azura Tyabji. FEATURING: Incredible singer and organizer, JustMoni ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

King's Hall is below and behind the Mt. Baker Light Rail Station Stop

Bus Routes nearby are 8, 48, 14, 7, 9, 106, 987 (many of which are available at the Mt. Baker Transfer Station)

Parking: There is a parking lot available at Kings Hall and overflow parking available next door at the University of Washington Consolidated Laundry parking lot.

No stairs or ramps necessary to enter King's Hall.

Two wheelchair accessible, gender free restrooms on the main floor.

Four spaces in the parking lot are designated for folks with disabled parking placards.

CART services will be available at this event.

This is not a scent free event/space but to request a scent free zone, email [email protected] by March 29th (acknowledging that King's Hall is not a scent free space overall).

For anyone needing seating anywhere in the seating area, we are happy to accommodate by moving any chairs.

There will be a row of seating reserved for folks that need access to the front for visibility.

Have access needs that are not listed here? Please email [email protected] with any questions, comments or concerns

YOUTH RIGHT NOW ARE THE TRUTH RIGHT NOW!

Emergent Strategy: An Evening with Adrienne Maree Brown

(Thursday, April 18, 2019) 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM @

The Seattle Public Library

Central Library, 1000 4th Ave, Seattle, Washington 98104

Join activist and author Adrienne Maree Brown for a reading centered on her book "Emergent Strategy" and a celebration of community-led organizing in Seattle.

This event is made possible with support from The Seattle Public Library Foundation and the Seattle Office of Civil Rights. ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

This program will be ASL interpreted.

Pasifik Voices Spring 2019 (Wednesday, April 24, 2019) 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM @ ECT

We are back for the last Pasifik Voices of the school year! You know the drill: come out and join us for a night of showcasing and celebrating the unique talents and performances of individuals who make up the greater Pacific Islander community on the UW campus!

As always, you can look forward to... music, dance, art, spoken-word, community and more!

Admission is FREE, bring all your homies!

Interested in performing? Sign up NOW at: tinyurl.com/pvspring2019 Interested in MCing? Apply here: https://forms.gle/GFHgbk6di1ZrCVhx7

SARVA, WAC, D-Center and SDC Present: Open Mic Night (Tuesday, April 30, 2019) 5-87PM @ HUB 340

Join this safe space and hear stories from disabled survivors of assault and domestic violence.

Light refreshments will be provided! (Vegan/gluten free options available!) ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

CART Captioning will be provided.

This is a scent free space! Please refrain from using scented products if you plan on attending.

Transgender & Gender Diverse Support & Social Group (Wednesday, April 10, 2019) 6-8 PM @ U.T.O.P.I.A Seattle 205 E. Meeker St. Kent, Washington 98032

Discussions include topics such as:

*Safety and self- care

*Decriminalization and Destigmatization of sex work

*Know your rights training

*Legal assistance

*Employment & housing

[trans] ACTION promotes and values confidentiality regarding interactions within the group.

The undisclosed location has ample parking, all-gender and ADA-accessible restroom. Come and build community with us! For more information please email Ara-lei at [email protected] Upcoming Dates :

Wed May 8 (6-8pm)

Wed June 12 (6-8pm)

Mondays, 2-4 PM, Odegaard Library Room 222

Tuesdays, 2-4 PM, Ethnic Cultural Center Room 306

Wednesdays, 2-4 PM, Q Center (HUB 315)

Thursdays, 2-4 PM, Mary Gates Hall Room 134E

Find Out More

#events #qsc #qtpoca #SARVA #D Center #ASL #UTOPIA

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