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DESCRIPTION:Growing up as a quirky, queer, weirdo Black girl in South Central L.A., I 
 was teased mercilessly, jumped frequently, and grew to become intensely 
 terrified of, and angry with, my own community - my own people.\n\nI didn't 
 yet understand the intense legacy of anti-Black violence, and how the 
 trauma of that violence (exacerbated by media oppression, economic 
 disparity, and the prison industrial complex) had seeped deep into so many 
 elements of our culture, values, aesthetics, and the way we treat each 
 other. All I knew was that I needed someone, something, to blame and 
 somewhere to escape - so I blamed myself half the time, other Black people 
 the rest of the time, and found my escape in literature, theatre, and 
 academia.   While those pursuits, alongside my queerness, sometimes further 
 distanced me from the community that reared me, they also helped me better 
 understand why we were so hurt. They helped me grow compassion for myself 
 and for the pervasive, multi-faceted violence Black people in America 
 experience.  \n\nThis is the story of how performance and literature saved 
 my life and why I strive to create the sort of medicinal and redemptive art 
 that is rooted in Black Love and Liberation.      \n\n\nJezebel Delilah X 
 is a queer, lush-bodied, Black, femme performance artist, writer, actress, 
 filmmaker, educator, facilitator, orator and Faerie Queen Mermaid Gangsta 
 for The Revolution. She loves to flirt, laugh, perform, crack corny jokes, 
 and insert Octavia Butler references into every conversation. She is a 
 Co-Managing Editor for Everyday Feminism; co-host of the queer/feminist 
 Open Mic, Culture Fuck; Artistic Director of queer, Black, 
 multi-disciplinary performance troupe, Congregation of Liberation (recently 
 produced play Black Don't Crack); and one of the founding members of 
 Deviant Type Press. She has performed in a wide variety of Queer and Queer 
 People Of Color theatre projects and cabarets, and has been a featured 
 reader at literary events all over the Bay Area. She uses a combination of 
 memoir, poetry, theatre, and feminist storytelling to advance her politix 
 of radical love, socioeconomic justice, anti-racism, community 
 accountability, critical reflection, love, healing, and liberation. She has 
 an MFA in Creative Writing.\n\n*No one turned away for lack of funds.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/10/20/18779083.php
SUMMARY:Jezebel Delilah X on Writing & Performing Your Beauty When The World Calls You Ugly
LOCATION:California Institute of Integral Studies - CIIS Main Building\n1453 Mission 
 Street\nNamaste Hall, 3rd Floor\nSan Francisco, CA 94103
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/10/20/18779083.php
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