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SUMMARY:Alpha Beta Blah - The Party Scene
DESCRIPTION:Join AAWW for Alpha Beta Blah\, a new reading series that removes the secret from secret society!\n\n\nThe 2025 AAWW Margins fellows present “Alpha Beta Blah”\, a new reading series that invites writers to come frat out with the fellows. \nThe inaugural reading will take place on September 2nd at 7 pm ET. Readers must submit a sample in advance that speaks to the theme “the party scene” – send us a piece of that campus novel\, give us meet cutes at a rave\, submit a cocktail of sonnets\, take us to the house party that ruined a friend group. \nThis reading series is a part of the AAWW Margins fellowship program. \n__ \nVeena Dinavahi is an Indian American writer currently splitting her time between Connecticut and Brooklyn. A graduate of Columbia University with a degree in psychology\, she has had essays published in The Rumpus\, Pulp Magazine\, and the Columbia Daily Spectator. She works in the fashion industry and The True Happiness Company is her first book. \nPaolo Iacovelli is a French-Italian-Colombian writer born and raised in New York City. He received his MFA from Columbia’s School of the Arts. The King of Video Poker is his debut novel. \n__ \nCOMMUNITY CARE & ACCESSIBILITY \nAt AAWW\, the safety and comfort of our community is our top priority. We invite you to practice intentionality and care in your behavior and language when engaging with our programs and with each other. Violence of any kind\, including but not limited to racism\, sexism\, homophobia\, transphobia\, ableism\, ageism\, class or casteism\, bigotry or bias toward religion or faith\, or any action or assault against marginalized identities\, is not tolerated. Those who bring harm to our community in person or online are not welcome\, and will be asked to exit the space. \nThe event will be live streamed on Zoom with auto captioning for those who cannot join us in person. For those joining us in person\, we are located on the 18 West 21st Street\, Suite 900\, there is an elevator that will take you directly to our office. Masks are strongly encouraged for audience members for all AAWW events; if you forget yours\, one will be provided for you. We have two commercial grade air purifiers. We highly encourage all in person guests to take a COVID test at home prior to the event. If you have had COVID or have had known contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID in the 10 days prior\, we ask you tune in for the live stream instead. Please reach out to msaleh@aaww.org for additional accessibility requests\, including ADA accessible bathrooms\, chairs with added back support\, and beyond. This space is for YOU!
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/alpha-beta-blah-the-party-scene-2/
LOCATION:18 W 21st St suite 900\, 18 West 21st Street\, #suite 900\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person,Open Mic
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SUMMARY:lactose intolerant
DESCRIPTION:Join us for readings by Adlan Jackson\, Ama Kwarteng\, Kyle Carrero Lopez\, May Teng\, and Ruth Minah Buchwald!\n\n\nThe Asian American Writers’ Workshop is proud to host lactose intolerant (@lactoseintolerantnyc)\, an anti-clout reading series featuring writers of color in NYC. \nJoin us for readings by Adlan Jackson\, Ama Kwarteng\, Kyle Carrero Lopez\, May Teng\, and Ruth Minah Buchwald! \n__ \nCOMMUNITY CARE & ACCESSIBILITYAt AAWW\, the safety and comfort of our community is our top priority. We invite you to practice intentionality and care in your behavior and language when engaging with our programs and with each other. Violence of any kind\, including but not limited to racism\, sexism\, homophobia\, transphobia\, ableism\, ageism\, class or casteism\, bigotry or bias toward religion or faith\, or any action or assault against marginalized identities\, is not tolerated. Those who bring harm to our community in person or online are not welcome\, and will be asked to exit the space. We are located on the 9th floor of 18 W 21st Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues)\, there is an elevator that will take you directly to our office. To protect our friends with chemical sensitivities\, AAWW is a fragrance-free space. Masks are highly recommended for audience members for all AAWW events; if you forget yours\, one will be provided for you. We have three commercial grade air purifiers\, and a quiet room in the back should you need some space from the crowd. We highly encourage all in person guests to take a COVID test at home prior to the event. Please reach out to msaleh@aaww.org for additional accessibility requests\, including ADA accessible bathrooms\, chairs with added back support\, and beyond. This space is for YOU!
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/lactose-intolerant-2/
LOCATION:18 W 21st St suite 900\, 18 West 21st Street\, #suite 900\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
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SUMMARY:From Journalists to Authors: The Making of Stories
DESCRIPTION:Join AAJA and AAWW for a conversation on transitioning from reporting to long-form storytelling!\n\n\nJoin AAJA and AAWW for an enlivening conversation on transitioning from reporting to long-form storytelling\, featuring Vicky Nguyen and Youngmi Mayer! The panelists will reflect on the challenges of shifting from the fast-paced\, fact-driven world of journalism to the slower\, more introspective craft of writing books! \n__ \nVicky Nguyen is an NBC News chief consumer investigative correspondent\, anchor of NBC News Daily and New York Times best-selling author of the new memoir “Boat Baby.” She reports for the Today show\, Nightly News with Tom Llamas and NBC News Now. She graduated as valedictorian from the University of San Francisco. Vicky lives in New York with her husband and three daughters. \nYoungmi Mayer is a standup comedian and host of the podcasts Feeling Asian and Hairy Butthole. She has been on The Today Show\, ABC News\, Rolling Stone\, CNN\, Vice Munchies\, Eater’s Guide to the World and The Mind of a Chef. Her work has been featured in Netflix is a Joke\, Comedy Central and BBC. She has written for Lucky Peach\, Cherry Bomb\, InStyle and Women’s Health Magazine. She is one of the rare comedians working today who has obtained success both on online platforms and in the mainstream. She lives in New York City with her son\, Mino Bowien. \n__ \nCOMMUNITY CARE & ACCESSIBILITY \nAt AAWW\, the safety and comfort of our community is our top priority. We invite you to practice intentionality and care in your behavior and language when engaging with our programs and with each other. Violence of any kind\, including but not limited to racism\, sexism\, homophobia\, transphobia\, ableism\, ageism\, class or casteism\, bigotry or bias toward religion or faith\, or any action or assault against marginalized identities\, is not tolerated. Those who bring harm to our community in person or online are not welcome\, and will be asked to exit the space. \nThe event will be live streamed on Zoom with auto captioning for those who cannot join us in person. For those joining us in person\, we are located on the 18 West 21st Street\, Suite 900\, there is an elevator that will take you directly to our office. Masks are strongly encouraged for audience members for all AAWW events; if you forget yours\, one will be provided for you. We have two commercial grade air purifiers. We highly encourage all in person guests to take a COVID test at home prior to the event. If you have had COVID or have had known contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID in the 10 days prior\, we ask you tune in for the live stream instead. Please reach out to msaleh@aaww.org for additional accessibility requests\, including ADA accessible bathrooms\, chairs with added back support\, and beyond. This space is for YOU!
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/from-journalists-to-authors-the-making-of-stories/
LOCATION:18 W 21st St suite 900\, 18 West 21st Street\, #suite 900\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person,Professional Development
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SUMMARY:In Celebration of Marginlands
DESCRIPTION:Join AAWW for a celebration of Marginlands by Arati Kumar-Rao!\n\n\nJoin AAWW for a celebration of Marginlands by Arati-Kumar Rao! \nAs a child growing up in Mumbai\, Arati Kumar-Rao’s parents instilled in her an abiding love for the natural world and a passion for storytelling. Years later\, adrift in a corporate job and concerned by the unbridled development of her country\, she asked herself\, “When will you stop doing what you can do and start doing what you really want to do?” \nAnimated by an instinctive sense that our fate is bound to that of the earth and the more-than-human world\, Kumar-Rao sets out on a journey across India\, listening along the way to stories the land and its people share with her. In the Thar Desert\, often reduced to the value of extractable commodities\, she learns about ancient methods of harvesting rainwater from shepherds with deep ancestral memories. In the delta formed by the confluence of the Ganges\, Brahmaputra\, and Meghna Rivers at the Bay of Bengal\, she walks ancient shorelines and mangrove forests with a marine biologist\, exploring tidepools and learning of the extent to which this astonishingly diverse ecology is increasingly endangered by commercial trawlers and overfishing. And on India’s northernmost plateau\, surrounded by the Himalaya and home to snow leopards\, ibex\, and numerous endangered species of eagles and owls\, she finds glaciers disappearing at an alarming rate and meets with inhabitants who play little role in creating climate change but now bear the brunt of it. \nRichly illustrated with the author’s photographs and drawings\, Marginlands is a vibrant and compelling account of the changes reshaping India today. Engaging and urgent\, infused with wonder and profound empathy\, this is a work of love and hope\, inspiring readers across the world to preserve and protect the world around us. \n__ \nArati Kumar-Rao is a National Geographic Explorer\, an independent environmental photographer\, a writer\, and an artist. Her work has appeared in National Geographic\, Emergence\, BBC\, and in leading Indian publications. \n__ \nCOMMUNITY CARE & ACCESSIBILITY \nAt AAWW\, the safety and comfort of our community is our top priority. We invite you to practice intentionality and care in your behavior and language when engaging with our programs and with each other. Violence of any kind\, including but not limited to racism\, sexism\, homophobia\, transphobia\, ableism\, ageism\, class or casteism\, bigotry or bias toward religion or faith\, or any action or assault against marginalized identities\, is not tolerated. Those who bring harm to our community in person or online are not welcome\, and will be asked to exit the space. \nThe event will be live streamed on Zoom with auto captioning for those who cannot join us in person. For those joining us in person\, we are located on the 18 West 21st Street\, Suite 900\, there is an elevator that will take you directly to our office. Masks are strongly encouraged for audience members for all AAWW events; if you forget yours\, one will be provided for you. We have two commercial grade air purifiers. We highly encourage all in person guests to take a COVID test at home prior to the event. If you have had COVID or have had known contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID in the 10 days prior\, we ask you tune in for the live stream instead. Please reach out to msaleh@aaww.org for additional accessibility requests\, including ADA accessible bathrooms\, chairs with added back support\, and beyond. This space is for YOU!
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/in-celebration-of-marginlands/
LOCATION:18 W 21st St suite 900\, 18 West 21st Street\, #suite 900\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,In Person
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SUMMARY:In Celebration of Sage
DESCRIPTION:Join AAWW for a celebration of Yaffa’s latest book\, Sage!\n\n\nJoin AAWW for a celebration of Yaffa’s latest book\, Sage! \nSage is a poetry collection that acknowledges all transphobia is systemic but the pain of everyday interpersonal violence is still felt in our bones. A collection that highlights challenges and joy within interpersonal relationships from the perspective of a queer and trans Palestinian living at the margins of displacement\, disability\, immigration & ongoing genocide. Sage is a beacon of light\, shedding light to wounds that have festered and rotted\, and finding the paths forward as fascism claims more of who we are. \nAll proceeds go to Trans folks most affected by ongoing gen0cides. \nFollow @yaffasutopia and @merajpublshing to stay updated. \n__ \nYaffa (they/them) is a stand-up comedian currently withholding their comedy until Falasteen is free. In the meantime\, they have vowed to flood the market with books\, visual art\, and perhaps even plays. They are an acclaimed disabled\, autistic\, trans\, queer\, Muslim\, Indigenous Palestinian. Mx. Yaffa is the Executive Director of the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD) and the founder of several non-profits and community projects. They are multi-generationally displaced and currently searching for the next country to move to. They currently split their time between Jordan and Occupied Lisjan territory\, where they are in service to Indigenous communities until they can return home to Falasteen. \n__ \nCOMMUNITY CARE & ACCESSIBILITY \nAt AAWW\, the safety and comfort of our community is our top priority. We invite you to practice intentionality and care in your behavior and language when engaging with our programs and with each other. Violence of any kind\, including but not limited to racism\, sexism\, homophobia\, transphobia\, ableism\, ageism\, class or casteism\, bigotry or bias toward religion or faith\, or any action or assault against marginalized identities\, is not tolerated. Those who bring harm to our community in person or online are not welcome\, and will be asked to exit the space. \nThe event will be live streamed on Zoom with auto captioning for those who cannot join us in person. For those joining us in person\, we are located on the 18 West 21st Street\, Suite 900\, there is an elevator that will take you directly to our office. Masks are strongly encouraged for audience members for all AAWW events; if you forget yours\, one will be provided for you. We have two commercial grade air purifiers. We highly encourage all in person guests to take a COVID test at home prior to the event. If you have had COVID or have had known contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID in the 10 days prior\, we ask you tune in for the live stream instead. Please reach out to msaleh@aaww.org for additional accessibility requests\, including ADA accessible bathrooms\, chairs with added back support\, and beyond. This space is for YOU!
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/in-celebration-of-sage/
LOCATION:18 W 21st St suite 900\, 18 West 21st Street\, #suite 900\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250617T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250617T210000
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SUMMARY:In Celebration of Mothersalt and Becoming Ghost
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a celebration of Mothersalt by Mia Ayumi Malhotra and Becoming Ghost by Cathy Lin Che\, with Sahar Muradi and Eugenia Leigh!\n\n\nJoin AAWW for a celebration of Mothersalt by Mia Ayumi Malhotra and Becoming Ghost by Cathy Lin Che\, featuring readings by Sahar Muradi and Eugenia Leigh! \n__ \nMia Ayumi Malhotra is the author of MOTHERSALT (Alice James Books\, 2025) and ISAKO ISAKO\, a California Book Award finalist and winner of the Alice James Award\, Nautilus Gold Award for Poetry\, National Indie Excellence Award\, and Maine Literary Award. She is also the author of the chapbook NOTES FROM THE BIRTH YEAR\, winner of the Bateau Press Chapbook Contest. Mia’s work has received the Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry and the Singapore Poetry Prize\, and she is a Kundiman Fellow and founding member of The Ruby SF\, a gathering space for women\, transfeminine\, and nonbinary artists. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where she teaches poetry and writes about music and the interior life. \nCathy Linh Che is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Becoming Ghost (Washington Square Press\, 2025)\, Split (Alice James Books) and co-author\, with Kyle Lucia Wu\, of the children’s book An Asian American A to Z: a Children’s Guide to Our History (Haymarket Books). Her video installation Appocalips is an Open Call commission with The Shed NY\, and her film We Were the Scenery won the Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction at the Sundance Film Festival. She teaches as Core Faculty in Poetry at the low residency MFA program in Creative Writing at Antioch University in Los Angeles and works as Executive Director at Kundiman. She lives in New York City. \nSahar Muradi is author of the collection OCTOBERS\, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the 2022 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and a finalist for the National Poetry Series. She is author of the chapbooks [ G A T E S ]\, Ask Hafiz\, and A Garden Beyond My Hand\, and co-editor\, with Seelai Karzai\, of EMERGENC(Y): Writing Afghan Lives Beyond the Forever War\, An Anthology of Writing from Afghanistan and its Diaspora. Her writing has been supported by Asian American Writers’ Workshop\, Bethany Arts Community\, Blue Mountain Center\, and Sustainable Arts Foundation. Sahar lives in New York City\, where she directs the arts education programs at City Lore and dearly believes in the bottom of the rice pot. \nEugenia Leigh is a Korean American poet and the author of Bianca (Four Way Books\, 2023) and Blood\, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books\, 2014). Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications including TIME\, The Nation\, Poetry\, Ploughshares\, Waxwing\, and the Best of the Net anthology. Eugenia serves as a Poetry Editor at The Adroit Journal and as Valentines Editor at Honey Literary. http://www.eugenialeigh.com \n__ \nCOMMUNITY CARE & ACCESSIBILITY \nAt AAWW\, the safety and comfort of our community is our top priority. We invite you to practice intentionality and care in your behavior and language when engaging with our programs and with each other. Violence of any kind\, including but not limited to racism\, sexism\, homophobia\, transphobia\, ableism\, ageism\, class or casteism\, bigotry or bias toward religion or faith\, or any action or assault against marginalized identities\, is not tolerated. Those who bring harm to our community in person or online are not welcome\, and will be asked to exit the space. \nThe event will be live streamed on Zoom with auto captioning for those who cannot join us in person. For those joining us in person\, we are located on the 18 West 21st Street\, Suite 900\, there is an elevator that will take you directly to our office. Masks are strongly encouraged for audience members for all AAWW events; if you forget yours\, one will be provided for you. We have two commercial grade air purifiers. We highly encourage all in person guests to take a COVID test at home prior to the event. If you have had COVID or have had known contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID in the 10 days prior\, we ask you tune in for the live stream instead. Please reach out to msaleh@aaww.org for additional accessibility requests\, including ADA accessible bathrooms\, chairs with added back support\, and beyond. This space is for YOU!
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/in-celebration-of-mothersalt-and-becoming-ghost/
LOCATION:18 W 21st St suite 900\, 18 West 21st Street\, #suite 900\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Event: Memory & Mollusks: In Celebration of Clam Down and Anam
DESCRIPTION:Join AAWW for the joint launch of André Dao’s new novel\, Anam\, and Anelise Chen’s new memoir\, Clam Down!\n\n\nJoin AAWW for the joint launch of André Dao’s new novel\, Anam\, and Anelise Chen’s new memoir\, Clam Down! \nAnelise Chen is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University. Her first novel\, So Many Olympic Exertions\, was published by Kaya Press in 2017. It was a VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Finalist. Her second book\, Clam Down (One World)\, based on her brief stint as the Paris Review Daily’s “mollusk correspondent\,” will be out in June 2025. She is a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 Awardee. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic\, New York Times\, The Believer\, McSweeney’s\, BOMB\, The New Republic\, NPR\, Village Voice\, Conjunctions\, and more. \nAndré Dao is an author and researcher from Naarm/Melbourne\, Australia. His debut novel\, Anam\, won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction\, the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for New Writing\, and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Voss Literary Award. In 2024\, he was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist. He is the co-founder of Behind the Wire\, the award-winning oral history project documenting the stories of the adults and children who have been detained by the Australian government after seeking asylum in Australia. \n__ \nCOMMUNITY CARE & ACCESSIBILITY \nAt AAWW\, the safety and comfort of our community is our top priority. We invite you to practice intentionality and care in your behavior and language when engaging with our programs and with each other. Violence of any kind\, including but not limited to racism\, sexism\, homophobia\, transphobia\, ableism\, ageism\, class or casteism\, bigotry or bias toward religion or faith\, or any action or assault against marginalized identities\, is not tolerated. Those who bring harm to our community in person or online are not welcome\, and will be asked to exit the space. \nThe event will be live streamed on Zoom with auto captioning for those who cannot join us in person. For those joining us in person\, we are located on the 18 West 21st Street\, Suite 900\, there is an elevator that will take you directly to our office. Masks are required for audience members for all AAWW events; if you forget yours\, one will be provided for you. We have three commercial grade air purifiers. We highly encourage all in person guests to take a COVID test at home prior to the event. If you have had COVID or have had known contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID in the 10 days prior\, we ask you tune in for the live stream instead. Please reach out to msaleh@aaww.org for additional accessibility requests\, including ADA accessible bathrooms\, chairs with added back support\, and beyond. This space is for YOU!
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/memory-mollusks-in-celebration-of-clam-down-and-anam/
LOCATION:18 W 21st St suite 900\, 18 West 21st Street\, #suite 900\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250508T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250508T210000
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: In Celebration of The Hollow Half
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a celebration of The Hollow Half by Sarah Aziza\, in conversation with Hannah Bae!\n\n\nJoin AAWW for a celebration of The Hollow Half\, an urgent and groundbreaking memoir by Sarah Aziza\, one of the most important new voices in contemporary literature and criticism. Sarah will be in conversation with Hannah Bae\, with featured readings by Kamelya Omayma Youssef\, Ghinwa Jawhari\, H. Sinno\, and Ladan Khoddam-Khorasani. \n__ \nA brush with death. An ancestral haunting. A century of family secrets. Sarah Aziza’s searing\, genre-bending memoir traces three generations of diasporic Palestinians from Gaza to the Midwest to New York City—and back \n“You were dead\, Sarah\, you were dead.” In October 2019\, Sarah Aziza\, daughter and granddaughter of Gazan refugees\, is narrowly saved after being hospitalized for an eating disorder. The doctors revive her body\, but it is no simple thing to return to the land of the living. Aziza’s crisis is a rupture that brings both her ancestral and personal past into vivid presence. The hauntings begin in the hospital cafeteria\, when a mysterious incident summons the familiar voice of her deceased Palestinian grandmother. \nIn the months following\, as she responds to a series of ghostly dreams\, Aziza unearths family secrets that reveal the ways her own trauma and anorexia echo generations of violent Palestinian displacement and erasure—and how her fight to recover builds on a century of defiant survival and love. As she moves towards this legacy\, Aziza learns to resist the forces of colonization\, denial\, and patriarchy both within and outside her. \nWeaving timelines\, languages\, geographies\, and genres\, The Hollow Half probes the contradictions and contingencies that create “nation” and “history.” Blazing with honesty\, urgency\, and poetry\, this stunning debut memoir is a fearless call to imagine both the self and the world anew. \n__ \nSarah Aziza is a Palestinian American writer\, translator\, and artist with roots in ‘Ibdis and Deir al-Balah\, Gaza. The recipient of a Fulbright fellowship and numerous grants from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting\, she has lived and worked in Saudi Arabia\, Algeria\, Jordan\, South Africa\, the West Bank\, and the United States. Her award-winning journalism\, poetry\, essays\, and experimental nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker\, The Baffler\, Harper’s Magazine\, Mizna\, Lux\, The Washington Post\, The Intercept\, The Rumpus\, NPR\, The Margins\, and The Nation\, among other publications. \nHannah Bae is a Korean American freelance journalist\, nonfiction writer and illustrator who is at work on a memoir about family estrangement and mental illness. She is the 2020 nonfiction winner of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and a 2021 and 2022 Peter Taylor Fellow for The Kenyon Review Writers Workshops. She is a proud former student of Evelina’s. You can connect with her at @hanbae on Twitter and @hannahbae on Instagram. \nKamelya Omayma Youssef is the author of A book with a hole in it (Wendy’s Subway\, 2022). Her work has been published with Mizna\, The Margins\, 1080press\, PoetLore\, and also her friends’ zines. She adjuncts in NYC and teaches workshops with her friends; the latest being Habibi Futurism with Leila Abdelrazaq and Levon Kafafian. She and you will see a free Palestine in this lifetime. \nGhinwa Jawhari is the author of the chapbook BINT (2021)\, which was selected by Aria Aber for Radix Media’s inaugural Own Voices Chapbook Prize. A recipient of fellowships from Kundiman and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop\, she is the founding editor of Koukash Review. Her essays\, fiction\, and poetry appear in Catapult\, Mizna\, The Adroit Journal\, Rusted Radishes\, The Margins\, Narrative\, and elsewhere. \nLadan Khoddam-Khorasani (she/they) is a poet\, educator and public health practitioner. She is interested in how we can use poetry and language to take care of one another. \nH. Sinno is a composer-performer\, writer\, and designer based in New York. They have been the lyricist and front-person for Mashrou Leila since 2008\, engaging conversations around representation\, free speech\, gender justice\, and sexual freedoms in the Middle East. H has a BFA from the Department of Architecture and Design at the American University of Beirut\, and an MA in Digital Musics from Dartmouth College where they analyzed the vocal organ and digital vocality as sites of political negotiation. Their writing has been published by Poetry Project\, Frieze Magazine\, The Derivative\, Theater Magazine\, Bard College & others. Their debut full-length opera\, Westerly Breath\, was in development at The Industry Los Angeles\, and opened at the New York Met Museum in January 2024. Westerly Breath braids Egyptian mythology\, and architectural history into a semi-autobiographical portrait of queer trauma\, leveraging myth\, monument\, and memoir as vectors of dismemberment and remembrance. Their solo debut\, Poems of Consumption\, opened at London’s Barbican Centre in July 2023\, and is currently on tour in the US. Partially inspired by Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism\, Poems of Consumption is a song cycle built on poetry published in Amazon customer reviews\, covering themes like ennui\, surveillance capitalism\, heartbreak\, boycotts\, and orientalism\, with compositions that juxtapose harsh electronica with the whimsy of a string quartet. \n__ \nCOMMUNITY CARE & ACCESSIBILITY\nAt AAWW\, the safety and comfort of our community is our top priority. We invite you to practice intentionality and care in your behavior and language when engaging with our programs and with each other. Violence of any kind\, including but not limited to racism\, sexism\, homophobia\, transphobia\, ableism\, ageism\, class or casteism\, bigotry or bias toward religion or faith\, or any action or assault against marginalized identities\, is not tolerated. Those who bring harm to our community in person or online are not welcome\, and will be asked to exit the space. We are located on 18 West 21st Street\, Suite 900\, there is an elevator that will take you directly to our office. Masks are highly recommended for audience members for all AAWW events; if you forget yours\, one will be provided for you. We have three commercial grade air purifiers. We highly encourage all in person guests to take a COVID test at home prior to the event. Please reach out to msaleh@aaww.org for additional accessibility requests\, including ADA accessible bathrooms\, chairs with added back support\, and beyond. This space is for YOU!
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/in-celebration-of-the-hollow-half/
LOCATION:18 W 21st St suite 900\, 18 West 21st Street\, #suite 900\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Hybrid,In Person,Virtual
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