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Do you feel that democracy is eroding? Come be inspired by creators and activists who haven’t given up! Shizue Seigel hosts. Readers include: 

• James Cagney, prize-winning poet and author of Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory and Martian: The Saint of Loneliness
• Tara Dorabji, documentary filmmaker and author of Call Her Freedom 
• Chloe Gentile-Montgomery, ethnic studies educator and author of Rustlings of the Spirit  
• Georgina Marie Guardado, Lake County Poet Laureate and Board President of the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference  
• Susan Ito, author of I Would Meet You Anywhere  
• Tehmina Khan, teacher of Poetry for the People at City College of San Francisco 
• Jason Santiago LaCour, Santa Cruz slam poet 
• Tureeda Mikell, author of The Body: Oracle of Memory and Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine 
• Shizue Seigel, director of Write Now! SF Bay and author of Courting a Man Who Doesn’t Talk  
• Betty Shamieh, American playwright, author of Too Soon, screenwriter and actor of Palestinian descent
• Kimi Sugioka, Alameda Poet Laureate and curator of the Last Supper Party reading series 
• Kelechi Ubozoh, mental health advocate and co-editor of We’ve Been Too Patient  
• Beulah Vega, poet and producer of the Santa Rosa theater series Heroines, Harpies, and Harlots – A Woman Speaks  
• Brenda Yeager, Lake County Poet Laureate 

Shizue Seigel is a Japanese American writer, visual artist and director of Write Now! SF Bay, an organization that has served writers and artists of color since 2015 through free creative writing workshops, events and anthologies. Seigel’s nine books include In Good Conscience, Civil Liberties United and her recent Courting a Man Who Doesn’t Talk. 
 

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