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DESCRIPTION:We're throwing a special Writers With Drinks to welcome the amazing Janet 
 Mock to San Francisco!\n\nWhen: Saturday, March 29, from 7 PM to 9 PM, 
 doors open 6 PM\nWhat: WRITERS WITH DRINKS!\nWho: Janet Mock, Ayelet 
 Waldman, Marga Gomez, Marie Brennan and Annalee Newitz!\nHow much: $10 to 
 $20, all proceeds benefit the Transgender Law Center and the CSC\nWhere: 
 The Elbo Room, 647 Valencia St., San Francisco\nNOTE DIFFERENT TIME, DATE 
 AND LOCATION!\n\nAbout the readers/performers:\n\nJanet Mock is a writer, 
 an advocate and the New York Times bestselling author of Redefining 
 Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More. After 
 publicly proclaiming her identity as a trans woman in a 2011 profile in 
 Marie Claire magazine, Janet focused her efforts on speaking about the 
 struggles, triumphs and portrayals of girls and women like herself. In 
 2012, she launched #GirlsLikeUs, a movement that encourages trans women to 
 live visibly. Janet is a board member at the Arcus Foundation, a global 
 organization advancing social justice and conservation issues, and an 
 advisor for the {young}ist, a young people-powered media site. She has also 
 advised programming for trans youth at the Hetrick-Martin Institute in New 
 York.\n\nAyelet Waldman is the author of the forthcoming Love and Treasure 
 (Knopf, April 2014), Red Hook Road and The New York Times bestseller Bad 
 Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities and Occasional 
 Moments of Grace. Her novel Love and Other Impossible Pursuits was adapted 
 into a film called "The Other Woman" starring Natalie Portman. Her personal 
 essays and profiles of such public figures as Hillary Clinton have been 
 published in a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, including The New 
 York Times, Vogue, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Her 
 radio commentaries have appeared on "All Things Considered" and "The 
 California Report."\n\nMarga Gomez, comedian, writer, performer is a triple 
 winner of SF Bay Guardian's "Best Comedian" award and received Theatre LA's 
 Ovation. Marga got her comedy start in San Francisco where she honed her 
 high energy, proudly Latina, openly gay, slightly dorky, tragically sexy, 
 laugh getting act. Her television credits include HBO's "Comic Relief" 
 Showtime's "Latino Laugh Festival" and LOGO's "One Night Stand Up."Marga is 
 also the author/ performer of nine solo plays which have been produced 
 nationally, internationally and Off Broadway. Her latest show "Not Getting 
 Any Younger," received the SF Chronicle's highest rating in 2011 and ran at 
 the SF Marsh through June 2012. Her latest show, Lovebirds, is currently 
 appearing at the Marsh.\n\nAnnalee Newitz writes about science, pop 
 culture, and the future. She's the editor in chief of io9, a publication 
 that covers science and science fiction, and has over 10 million readers 
 every month. She's the author of Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans 
 Will Survive a Mass Extinction (Doubleday). She's also published in Wired, 
 The Smithsonian Magazine, The Washington Post, 2600, New Scientist, 
 Technology Review, Popular Science, Discover and the San Francisco Bay 
 Guardian. She's co-editor of the essay collection She's Such A Geek (Seal 
 Press), and author of Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American 
 Pop Culture (Duke University Press). Formerly, she was a policy analyst at 
 the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and a lecturer in American Studies at 
 UC Berkeley.\n\nMarie Brennan's latest book is The Tropic of Serpents, the 
 sequel to A Natural History of Dragons. Her other books include Warrior, 
 Witch, Midnight Never Come, In Ashes Lie, A Star Shall Fall, When Fates 
 Conspire and Lies and Prophecy. Her fiction has appeared in Beneath 
 Ceaseless Skies, Tor.com, Talebones, Mythic Delirium and many other places. 
 She is a former academic with a background in archaeology, anthropology, 
 and folklore, which she now puts to rather cockeyed use in writing 
 fantasy.\n\n\n\nAbout Writers With Drinks:\n\nWriters With Drinks has won 
 numerous "Best ofs" from local newspapers, and has been mentioned in 7x7, 
 Spin Magazine and one of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City novels. The 
 spoken word "variety show" mixes genres to raise money for local causes. 
 The award-winning show includes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, 
 fantasy, romance, mystery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and 
 blogs\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/03/23/18753001.php
SUMMARY:Janet Mock and Ayelet Waldman at Writers With Drinks
LOCATION:The Elbo Room, 647 Valencia St.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/03/23/18753001.php
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