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DESCRIPTION:Lindy West (Shrill) leads an all-star lineup of feminists, poets, 
 visionaries, dystopian creators and comedians. This is going to be 
 epic!\n\nWhen: Saturday, May 13, 2017 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 
 6:30 PM\nWho: Lindy West, Julia Vinograd, Zahra Noorbaksh, George Higgins 
 and Meg Elison\nHow much: $5 to $20, all proceeds benefit the Center for 
 Sex & Culture\nWhere: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, 
 CA\n\nAbout the readers/performers:\n\nLindy West is a columnist at The 
 Guardian, a contributor to This American Life, and a freelance writer whose 
 work focuses on feminism, social justice, humor, and body image. Her work 
 has appeared in the New York Times, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Vulture, Jezebel, The 
 Stranger, and others. She is the founder of I Believe You, It's Not Your 
 Fault, an advice blog for teens, as well as the reproductive rights 
 destigmatization campaign #ShoutYourAbortion. Her first book, a memoir 
 called Shrill, is out now from Hachette Books.\n\nJulia Vinograd is a 
 Berkeley street poet and the unofficial Poet Laureate of Berkeley. She has 
 published 50 books of poetry, and won the American Book Award of The Before 
 Columbus Foundation. She has three poetry CD collections: Bubbles and 
 Bones, Eye of the Hand, and The Book Of Jerusalem. She received a BA. from 
 the University of California at Berkeley and an M.F.A. from the University 
 of Iowa. She received the 2004 Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award from the 
 City of Berkeley. She won a Pushcart Prize for her poem “The Young Men 
 Who Died of AIDS”. She was one of the four editors of the anthology New 
 American Underground Poetry Vol. 1: The Babarians of San Francisco— Poets 
 from Hell.\n\nZahra Noorbakhsh is a Feminist Muslim, Iranian-American 
 comedian and cohost of the award winning podcast, #GoodMuslimBadMuslim. The 
 podcast was recently invited to record at the White House and featured in 
 Oprah Magazine. Her one woman show, "All Atheists are Muslim: a romantic 
 comedy" was dubbed a highlight of the Int'l New York City Fringe Theater 
 Festival by The New Yorker. Noorbakhsh is a contributor to The New York 
 Times Featured anthology, Love Inshallah: The Secret Love Lives of American 
 Muslim Women. As a comedian, she has performed with renowned comics, such 
 as W. Kamau Bell, Hari Kondabolu, and Maz Jobrani. Last summer, she was 
 invited to the Sundance Creative Change retreat to workshop her comedy 
 special, "On Behalf of All Muslims," which will debut at the Islamic 
 Cultural Center of Northern California, Oakland, where Noorbakhsh is an 
 artist in residence. She is also a member of the San Francisco Writer's 
 Grotto.\n\nGeorge Higgins has been a public defender in Oakland, California 
 for the past 26 years. He received a J.D. from the University of Michigan 
 Law School where he studied with Robert Hayden and an M.F.A. from Warren 
 Wilson College where he was a Holden Fellow. His first published poem, a 
 villanelle, was selected for Best American Poetry 2003 by Yusef Komunyakaa. 
 Other poems have appeared in Fugue, Lungfull, Nimrod, Pleiades, and 
 Salamander. George is presently a Cave Canem Fellow.\n\nMeg Elison is a Bay 
 Area author and essayist. Her debut novel The Book of the Unnamed Midwife 
 won the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award and was listed as a Tiptree Committee 
 Recommendation. Her second novel, The Book of Etta, will be published in 
 spring 2017 by 47North. Her work has appeared in The Establishment, Liquid 
 Imagination, Compelling Science Fiction, Everyday Feminism, and many other 
 places online and in print. She writes like she's running out of time and 
 lives in Oakland.\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 in a freewheeling format.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/05/07/18799241.php
SUMMARY:Lindy West reads at Writers With Drinks
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/05/07/18799241.php
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