all gender reading group

All gender reading group

Hear brand new and stunning classic work from the best Bay Area Trans and Gender Non-Conforming writers.

Natasha Dennerstein was born in Melbourne, Australia and has an MFA from San Francisco State University. She has had 5 books of poetry published and her work has appeared in many journals in the USA and internationally. She is the author of the chapbook “Broken,a Life of Aileen Wuornos in 33 poems” for Be About it Press, 2021. She is an associate editor at Nomadic Press in Oakland and works for St James Infirmary, a clinic for sex workers in San Francisco.

Jasper Jay has been writing poetically since he was a little past knee high in Appalachia. As a Queer, Disabled, Trans, long-time Bay-Area transplant, he relishes work that lets him engage in intersectional social change. Thankfully, preparing to revisit Beastcrawl has encouraged him to dive back into his love for twisting words.

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Cal Calamia (they/he) is a bilingual queer trans educator, activist, and poet. His performative work has been featured at many spoken word series across The Bay, and his first book, San Franshitshow, was published by Nomadic Press last year. They are a secondary Spanish and Health educator in the city and are currently pursuing their MFA at the University of San Francisco.

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Saoirse Grace is a transsexual mechanic and groundskeeper who lives in Berkeley, California. She is a filmmaker, a writer, a calligrapher, an actor, a musician, an hedonist, a visual artist, a post-Hegelian nihilist, and a good lay. She loves pluots and the sound of broken bank windows and used to love cocaine too much. Driving motorcycles really really fast or getting punched in the face are the only ways she’s been able to meditate. As a baby she literally ran before she could walk, and thinks everything else you need to know about her can be found in her art.

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Avren Keating is a poet and artist living in Oakland, CA. The've published in Queen Mob's Teahouse, Omnivores, and THEM: A Trans* Lit Journal. Avren also hosts Waves Breaking, a podcast for trans and gender-variant poetry. ​

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LEG 3: 7pm-8pm VENUE: Feelmore Social Club 1524 Broadway 
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ABOUT FEELMORE SOCIAL CLUB:
Feelmore Social Club
​Feelmore is the keeper of secrets such as: insecurities, infidelities, and sexual expression. Our ground-floor location represents a twilight zone for unlikely encounters and friendships to crystallize and collisions to occur. We make it part of our business model to hire Oakland residents referred by friends or family, as we want patrons and visitors in downtown to feel at home. The sale of each item is a story in waiting, a teachable moment to all parties involved.

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