6:00 - 7:30
Following a six-week residency, seven QTBIPOC artists and writers present work inspired by the Hormel Center’s archive and book collections. Get ready for a night of LGBTQ history and BIPOC resplendence!
Anastasia L. (she/her) is a Vietnamese American lesbian poet from the East Bay.
Aja L. (they/them) is an multi-devotional assemblage artist and youth collaborator from the Bay Area.
Tiara A. (they/them) is a Bengali artist and writer born and raised on occupied Ohlone lands. They love the deep sea, magical realism and cooking with loved ones.
Littlebear S. (they/he) is a Two-Spirited Lipan Apache/Mexican filmmaker and founder of Wild Butterfly Productions. With experience in producing, directing and writing short films, documentary and experimental films, their focus is to create meaningful storytelling that showcases a diverse cast and crew.
Aspensong N. (Ze/Zir/He/Him) is a neurodivergent Two-Spirit/Anti-Zionist IndigiJew with disabilities who’s Jicarilla Apache, Comanche, Chicane, Jewish and W. Irish. Ze is passionate about writing and multi-media art embodying zir experiences as a multi-layered nebula. Ze writes about transness, Two-Spirit identity, disability, longing, ongoing intergenerational trauma and sacred Indigenous joy. Ze has been published in The Mixed-Race Queer & Feminist Zine, decomP and The Medulla Review, to name a few. Ze is currently working on art and prose for a chapbook called An Intimation of Seeds.
Kitzia E-M. (they/ theirs) is a Mexican migrant, gender non-binary, DACAmented writer and organizer who sees cultural work as imperative to sustaining and evolving social justice movements. They see storytelling as a place to shift narratives about queer/ trans, indigenous, Black, migrant and disabled people.
Vero M. (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary artist born and raised in San Francisco's Mission District. Her work creates space to acknowledge and remember the queer Latinx communities that have shaped one of San Francisco's most iconic yet contested neighborhoods. As a storyteller and curator, Majano's practice includes live cinema, archival film, performance and collage, which preserve stories and work towards a collective goal of including untold narratives in a greater San Francisco history. Her work has shown at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, the deYoung Museum, Oakland Museum of California and Galeria de la Raza. She has received grants from the Rockefeller Foundation Media Fellowship, the Puffin Foundation, SF Arts Commission and the Free History Project, and was a resident at the Headlands Center for the Arts and Djerassi Resident Artist program.
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LGBTQIA+ Interest
Gather, share knowledge and celebrate our unique identities at the queerest library ever.
For more resources, the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center is the gateway to the Library’s broader collections documenting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual history and culture, with a special emphasis on the San Francisco Bay Area.
BIPOC Interest
Attend programming, lectures and workshops intended for the BIPOC community.