So Many Stars: A Celebration of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color
Join us for an insightful conversation surrounding So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color by Caro De Robertis. In this groundbreaking work, De Robertis brings together the voices of trans,…
The Embodiment of Care
As we emerge from the past few years of collective upheaval, how do we face the complexities of our time with joy, authenticity, and connection? Therapist, somatics teacher, activist, and writer Prentis Hemphill shows us how in What It Takes…
Who’s Afraid of Gender?
During the 2024 presidential race, the Trump campaign released an anti-trans ad blitz across swing states. Once in power, he wasted no time issuing an executive order proclaiming there are only two biological sexes. Accordingly, trans protections,…
“Writing as an Other”
“What is the relationship between the role of the outsider and literary writing?” Pulitzer Prize-winning Viet Thanh Nguyen poses this question in his new book To Save and To Destroy, which is based on a series of six lectures at Harvard.…
Portable Intersectionality: Roxane Gay in conversation with Alicia Garza
As critical works and perspectives are being increasingly censored by the federal government’s hypocritical campaign for its distorted vision of “free speech,” our strategies for organizing and mobilizing communities must adapt to most…
Paths to Publishing: From the Big Five to DIY
These days, there are so many ways to get your book out into the world, choosing the best option can be daunting.
Join us as a published author from each pathway - the Big 5 (Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan,…
How to Find (& Create) Your Writing Community
Being a writer can be very isolating. You spend hours alone in a room with a bunch of imaginary people, and it's next to impossible to explain to anybody who isn’t a writer, exactly what you're doing there.
That's why having a writing community…
The Power of Voice: Writing for Social Change & Personal Truth
This workshop is for those who write toward justice, toward liberation, toward the excavation of personal and collective truth. There are as many ways to write politically as there are stories in the body, as many ways to resist as there are…
Revisions and the Muse
How can revision be part of a creative process? What do you do when your revision births a whole new turn of events in your poem or novel or essay? Join Kate Folk, Preeti Vangani and Laleh Khadivi, all USF MFA faculty, in thinking our way through…
Panel: We Will Not Disappear: Queer/Trans Voices in a Time of Backlash
Community members of the Bay Area's beloved LGBTQ+ collaborative, Foglifter Journal and Press, discuss the role of queer and trans publishing in a time when the nation has further precluded being a place of support and comfort, and shape a vision…