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Me as her again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter
Nancy Agabian
-Thursday, April 9
- 7:30 PM
This memoir is an exploration of cultural history vis-à-vis the skillful unfolding of personal memories around negotiating family life and the personal consequences of not being heterosexual in a conservative immigrant community. At its core, Agabian's story must deal with her paternal grandmother's experiences in the Armenian Genocide and the bruises it leaves on future generations of her family. (Aunt Lute Books)
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How Art and Music Can Change the World
Workshop
- Monday, April 13
- 1:00 PM
Part touring lecture, part art exhibit and part performance, in this workshop Jean Smith and David Lester of the Vancouver underground literary rock duo Mecca Normal have sixty minutes to inspire audiences towards considering political content in their creative self-expression.
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Low-Wage Capitalism: Colossus with feet of clay
Michael Parenti introduces Fred Goldstein
- Tuesday, April 14
- 7:30 PM
Critically acclaimed by Howard Zinn, Goldstein provides a sorely-needed and accessible analysis of the roots of the current global economic crisis, its implications for workers and oppressed peoples, and the strategy needed for future struggle. Known as a “tough, hilarious, right-on mix of scholar and street,” Michael Parenti is a leading critical voice around issues of imperialism and U.S. interventionism. (World View Forum)
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CELL/SELF: a reading of freedom from the prison industrial complex
Margo Perin & Multi-Generational Writers & Spoken Word Poets
- Thursday, April 16
- 7:00 PM
Bringing together writers of all generations to share their life experiences Margo Perin has worked with incarcerated and at-risk writers since 2001. She is the contributing editor of Only the Dead Can Kill: Stories from Jail. (Community Works West)
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Falling Angels: Cuentos y Poemas
Olga García Echeverría
Tallos de Luna: Moon Shoots
Elba R. Sánchez
- Friday, April 17
- 7:30 PM
Immigration, city dwelling, Chicano culture and consciousness are all explored by politically astute bilingual cockroaches, young winged women, and dead kleptomaniacs in Echeverría’s stories and poems. Elba Rosario Sánchez edited Revista Mujeres at the University of Santa Cruz for eight years and is the author of Tallos de Luna, a collection of poetry. (Calaca Press)
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Indie Press of the Month Event
Sweet Charlotte’s Seventh Mistake
Cori Crook
- Wednesday, April 22
- 7:00 PM
Told through old photographs, diary entries, letters, and the results of a mail-order DNA test, Sweet Charlotte’s Seventh Mistake pieces together a profound scrapbook that begins as a paternity search and becomes a chronicle of a mother’s reckless life. (Seal Press)
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Where Memory Dwells
Macarena Gomez-Barris
- Thursday, April 23
- 7:30 PM
The 1973 military coup in Chile deposed Allende and installed a dictatorship that terrorized the country for almost twenty years. Subsequent efforts to come to terms with the national trauma have resulted in an outpouring of the arts. In Where Memory Dwells, Macarena Gomez-Barris examines cultural sites and representations in postdictatorship Chile—what she calls “memory symbolics”—to uncover the impact of state sponsored violence. (University of California)
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The Burger Queen Social
- Saturday, April 25
- 5:30 PM
From the minds that brought about Gay Shame and Ships in the Night comes the Burger Queen Social—a fun and exciting opportunity to meet other radical queer, trans, and genderqueer folks to hook up with for political witchery and discussion. With free vegan eats and a wildly engaging DJ!
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Gringo
Chesa Boudin
- Wednesday, April 29
- 7:30 PM
Four decades ago Chesa Boudin’s parents (Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert) were making headlines as leaders of the Weather Underground. Seeking to find what connection the political ideas of his parents had to the living struggles of Latin America, Chesa spent eight years immersed in student/police street battles in Chile, trips via decrepit Amazon ferry boats and translating in the Presidential Palace of Venezuela for Hugo Chavez. (Simon and Schuster)
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Arm the Spirit
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz introduces Diana Block
- Thursdsay, April 30
- 7:30 PM
In June 1985, Diana Block, her two-week-old son, and five fellow revolutionaries fled Los Angeles after finding a surveillance device in their car. Thus began a decade of life underground—she spent ten years on the run from the FBI, was featured on TV’s “America’s Most Wanted,” and simultaneously raised two children. Diana’s memoir offers unique insights into efforts to build homegrown clandestine resistance to U.S. imperialism. (AK Press)
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Gay Shame Weekly Meetings
- Saturdays
- 5:30 PM
Gay Shame seeks nothing less than a new queer activism that foregrounds race, class, gender and sexuality, to counter gay consumerism and the increasingly hypocritical left. Come to a general meeting: all are welcome.
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