Poetry Performance 8PM:
A queer of color artistic intervention in the gaystream. How do we distinguish our ways of desiring, thinking, feeling, relating, and creating from the economies of white supremacy? We're building solidarity outside those refracted beams of white light we call rainbows. And renegotiate ways of loving our bodies. Join us for an evening of poetry, discussion, and community. Decolonize//queer//repeat.

Post-Performance Workshop at C&G:
We talk a lot about queerness as an identity, but not as much about queerness as a practice. How do we articulate our queer desires in meaningful ways? How do we seduce potential lovers? How do we use art as a form of queer expression and political resistance? Join us to hear some erotic poetry and maybe write your own! Together we can learn how to use art to decolonize heteronormativity and prepare for the (a)sexual revolution!

Poets:
Alok Vaid-Menon is a South Asian artivist who has performed & organized with queer movements around the world. They are committed to building radical queer movements and bodies that resist white supremacy and imperialism and like making art that thinks about these, and other what ifs. You can read some of their work at subalternrage.posterous.com andqueerlibido.tumblr.com.

Janani is a South Asian electron spinning around the Bay Area making art and scholarship. They like thinking about apocalypse, decolonizing the food system, and making space for quantum queers everywhere. You can read some of their poetry at queerdarkenergy.posterous.com. They’re also assistant editor over at blackgirldangerous.org.