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DESCRIPTION:The party don't stop as long as there are books that rock. Writers With 
 Drinks is back, with an amazing blend of literary weirdness, queer science 
 fiction, airships AND Mafia history. Don't miss it!\n\nWhen: Saturday, June 
 10, 2017 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM\nWho: Glen David Gold, 
 Mark Oshiro, Robyn Bennis, Christina Ann Marie DiEdoardo and Denise 
 Benavides!\nHow much: $5 to $20, all proceeds benefit Westside's AIDS Case 
 Management program, plus the Center for Sex & Culture\nWhere: The Make Out 
 Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, CA\n\nAbout the 
 readers/performers:\n\nGlen David Gold's's three-volume memoir, I Will Be 
 Complete, is forthcoming in 2018. He's also the author of the novels Carter 
 Beats the Devil and Sunnyside. His essays and short fiction have appeared 
 in McSweeney's, Playboy, New York Times Sunday Magazine, Tin House, Wired 
 and Zyzzyva.\n\nMark Oshiro is the Hugo-nominated writer of the online Mark 
 Does Stuff universe (Mark Reads and Mark Watches), where he analyzes book 
 and television series unspoiled, largely in the SF/F genres. He was the 
 nonfiction editor of Queers Destroy Science Fiction!. He's the author of a 
 forthcoming YA novel.\n\nDenise Benavides is a queer xicana performance 
 artist, poet, and educator based in Oakland, California. She uses the 
 stage/page to confront themes of xenophobia, relocation, sexuality, 
 religion, and love. Always, love. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from 
 Mills College and is currently teaching at Skyline College. Her debut 
 collection of poetry, Split, was released in the fall of 2016 by Kórima 
 Press.\n\nRobyn Bennis is the author of The Guns Above. She's a scientist 
 living in Mountain View, California, where she works in biotech but dreams 
 of airships. She has done research and development involving human gene 
 expression, neural connectomics, cancer diagnostics, rapid flu testing, 
 gene synthesis, genome sequencing, being so preoccupied with whether she 
 could that she never stopped to think if she should, and systems 
 integration.\n\nChristina Ann-Marie DiEdoardo is the author of Lanza's Mob: 
 The Mafia and San Francisco. She's a criminal defense lawyer working in SF. 
 She was part of the team of activists and lawyers who secured the repeal in 
 1998 of San Diego Municipal Code 56.19, the last enforced criminal 
 ordinance in a major American city which targeted transgender people for 
 appearing in public. She's the only openly transgender attorney licensed to 
 practice law in the state of Nevada, and she crafted the procedure for 
 Nevada courts to grant legal name and gender changes, which is still being 
 used, with some modifications, to this day.\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/2017/06/05/18799937.php
SUMMARY:Mark Oshiro and Denise Benavides at Writers With Drinks!
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA 94117
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/06/05/18799937.php
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