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  • Periwinkle Cinema: The Transgender Day of Remembrance

    HOLY_TRANNITY_FINALThe Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) was started by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor the memory of Rita Hester, a transgender woman who was killed in 1998. The vigil commemorated all the transgender people lost to violence that year and began an important memorial that has become the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance.

    This November we at Periwinkle Cinema will honor the voices that are often silenced. On November 19th on the eve on the TDOR, we offer our Trans/GenderQueer/Non-binary showcase. Please help us celebrate who we are and remember those who we have lost.

    With works by:

    J’vlyn D’Ark

    Lorin Murphy

    Tobi Hill Meyer

    Sam Ripinsky

    Silas Howard

    Plus more!

    “The Transgender Day of Remembrance seeks to highlight the losses we face due to anti-transgender bigotry and violence. I am no stranger to the need to fight for our rights, and the right to simply exist is first and foremost. With so many seeking to erase transgender people — sometimes in the most brutal ways possible — it is vitally important that those we lose are remembered, and that we continue to fight for justice.”
    – Transgender Day of Remembrance founder :

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gwendolyn-ann-smith/transgender-day-of-remembrance-why-we-remember_b_2166234.html” \t “_blank” Gwendolyn Ann Smith

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  • Small Press Traffic: an evening with Jocelyn Saidenberg and Amina Cain hosted by Robert Glück

    Join us for a reading  and conversation with Jocelyn Saidenberg and Amina Cain hosted by former SPT Director Robert Glück

    Jocelyn Saidenberg’s books include Mortal City, Cusp, Negativity, Shipwreck and Dead Letter. Born and raised in New York City, she’s lived and worked in San Francisco since 1994. She is the founding editor of KRUPSKAYA Books and one of the twelve curators of Right Window.

    Amina Cain is the author of two collections of short stories: Creature (Dorothy, a publishing project, 2013) andI Go To Some Hollow (Les Figues Press, 2009). Work has appeared in BOMB, n+1, Denver Quarterly, The Paris Review Daily, Two Serious Ladies, and other places. She is a member of Betalevel, a basement space in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, where she sometimes curates readings and events.

    Robert Glück is the author of nine books of poetry and fiction, including two novels, Margery Kempe and Jack the Modernist and a collection of stories, Denny Smith.  Glück prefaced artist Frank Moore’s Between Life and Death, and edited, with Camille Roy, Mary Berger and Gail Scott, the anthology Biting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative.  Glück was Co-Director of Small Press Traffic, Associate Editor at Lapis Press, and Director of The Poetry Center at San Francisco State, where he is Professor of Creative Writing.  In 2013 Ithuriel’s Spear republished his first book of stories, Elements, and in 2015 Semiotext(e) will publish his collected essays, The Greatness of Kathy Acker, and other Essays.