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"Hot Talks: In the Moment of Change." Join us to process, strategize, and vent about the current political climate.
Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 7 PM EST
An Intergenerational Conversation between Joan Nestle and Sara Gregory on US Inauguration Day. Join us for a conversation between Joan and Sara, followed by break out rooms to talk with other lesbians about the events of the day and this moment in our lives, a report back, and a final dance together to The L Word.
For this event we are testing the zoom registration function. Please register and join us.Register in advance for this meeting:
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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Check out our Facebook event for more information.
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Sinister Wisdom 119 Launch Event featuring
readings by Elana Dykewomon, Bonnie S. Kaplan, Judith Katz,
Irena Klepfisz, R.D. Landau, Dr. Yael Mishali, Ellen Rifkin, Mira Schlosberg, Amy Horowitz, and tova.
(Photos and bios of speakers are below!)
Tuesday, January 26th, 2021 @ 8:00pm EST
Here is the full information to join the Zoom Reading:
Sinister Wisdom 119 Launch Event
Time: Jan 26, 2021 08:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Elana Dykewomon was an editor of Sinister Wisdom from 1987-1994, is the author of eight books of fiction and poetry, and is currently writing a play about lesbian love, dementia, right to die, caretaking and community, honoring her late spouse, Susan Levinkind. She is grateful for all these years of lesbian inter-connection.
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Mira Schlosberg is a writer, comics artist, and editor whose work focuses on queer experiences, Jewish mysticism, and ecotheology. Her new graphic novella, Kugel Western, is forthcoming from Glom Press in 2021. You can find her on twitter @miraschlosberg.
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Bonnie S. Kaplan is a Pushcart-nominated poet and educator whose work appears in numerous journals and anthologies including Adrienne Rich: A Tribute Anthology. Her poem, “Mastectomy, Simple,” is a finalist for the Marica and Jan Vilcek Prize for Poetry, Bellevue Literary Review. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
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A 21st-century Jewish lesbian from a working-class background, tova writes, lectures and takes photographs. She does communication work on equity issues for the University of Oregon. She and her partner/spouse of 33+ years live in Eugene; their son is a professional ballet dancer, so they see lots of shows.
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Judith Katz is the author of, Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound, which won a Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction in 1992, and The Escape Artist. She lives in Minneapolis. just a few miles from the block where George Floyd was murdered last May.
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Dr. Yael Mishali is a feminist/queer writer, activist and performer. She is a Gender Studies lecturer in both Tel Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, as well as a member of the organizing committee of the largest Israeli conference devoted to LGBT studies and queer theory – ‘An Other Sex.’
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Irena Klepfisz is a poet, teacher, Yiddish translator, researcher
of Yiddish women writers and intellectuals, and lesbian-feminist activist. A bilingual edition of her collected poems (with some prose) will be published in Poland in 2021. She recently completed a new collection of poetry, tentatively titled: Her birth and Later Years: Poems 1990-2020.
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R.D. Landau is the editorial assistant for the Jewish News Of Northern California. Her work has appeared in Diabolical Plots, Entropy and Star 82 Review.
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Ellen Rifkin lives in Eugene, Oregon, where she leads a yiddish vinkl and is active in her local chapter of Showing Up For Racial Justice, She says friends, forests, music and meditation sustain her.
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Amy Horowitz worked as Sweet Honey In The Rock’s artist representative, won a Grammy, co-founded Roadwork and Sisterfire, and teaches and writes about Jerusalem, Mizrahi culture, and music in disputed territory. She is Israel Studies Senior Fellow at Indiana University and works with Navajo Technical University. amyhorowitz.org
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The next Sinister Wisdom book club will take place on Tuesday, February 9th, 2021 @ 7pm EST. We'll be discussing Funeral Diva by Pamela Sneed, which you can order here from Charis Books. We're so excited to hear your thoughts about this fabulous book!
Here is the zoom information for this gathering:
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Endangered Sites of Diversity with
the National Trust for Historic Preservation
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Join us on January 19, 2021 (12-1:00pm PST) for a free (donations accepted) webinar on the future of the Lyon-Martin House in San Francisco. This event is part of the Endangered Sites of Diversity Series, cosponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, California Preservation Foundation, and the GLBT Historical Society.
We’ll discuss the history of the house, updates on the Landmarking in progress, and news about upcoming hearings and needs for community support. You can register here.
CPF’s Diversity Series with the National Trust for Historic Preservation highlights endangered California sites, two of which are currently named on the National Trust’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places list. Since 1988, the annual list publishes information about the imminent threats facing the nation’s greatest treasures |
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