Organized Resistance From the Ground Up
Learn from the best of community organization leadership in this empowering panel, which will get to the bottom of how to build resilient and justice-oriented communities. Jaz Brisack, a leader of the Starbucks and Tesla union movements, narrates…
Essay as Form
The essay’s subjective and fragmented nature enables writers to grapple with complexities without the restrictions of systematic, traditional approaches to writing (Theodor W. Adorno, “The Essay as Form”). It liberates the essayist to…
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,…
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,…
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…
Healing and Resistance
In the face of direct oppression and attack on vulnerable communities throughout our nation’s history, especially from the current administration, this moment demands all aspects of resistance: self-nourishment, community healing, and defiance…
The End of the (Fantastical) World: Complicated Relationships in Dystopia
If the world was ending, we’d want to be next to these dystopian reads that also warm the heart! The Art Thieves, a work of Cherokee Futurismby Andrea L. Rogers, begins amidst a climate crisis in 2052, when a high-school museum employee becomes…
All Bodies All Selves
As we face increasing attacks on our bodily autonomy from our federal and state governments, these books provide essential resources and narratives that approach the topic with acuity and compassion. Award-winning author Zetta Elliott reflects…
Fantastical Worlds and Beings
Close your eyes and dream without limits… What kind of world does your imagination conjure? For Naseem Jamnia, the result is The Glade, a clearing in the woods of a summer camp, where falling asleep means entering one another’s dreams—and…