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No, seriously. You can have a doily for a head. People try to put limitations on you, and you cannot let them. Once your head is all lacey and frilly and full of fripperies, people will objectify you sexually in a whole new way, and soon you will be PRIME MINISTER OF AMERICA. That's a guarantee. Oh, also! Writers With Drinks is back again!
Note: We will be requiring masks in the audience, and we're hoping to have the whole balcony open so some of the audience can sit outside if it's not raining...
When: Saturday July 12 from 7 PM to 9 PM
Who: June Martin, Lio Min, Alex Hanna, Michal "MJ" Jones, Natasha Muse and M.M. Olivas!
How much: FREE, donations to Strut/Magnet requested
Where: Strut, 470 Castro St., San Francisco CA
Book sales by Fabulosa Books!
About the readers/performers:
M. M. Olivas is an alumna of the 2022 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop and the 2023 Under the Volcano Writers Residency. She received her bachelor’s degree in creative writing from the University of California Riverside and once worked as an Associate Editor for Escape Pod Magazine. Her short fiction has appeared in several publications, including Uncanny Magazine, Weird Horror Magazine, Apex, and Bourbon Penn. Her short story “If There May Be Ghosts” was on Reactor Magazine’s Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction list for July 2022, andher short story “The Prince of Oakland” was featured in Tenebrous Press’ Brave New Weird Anthology for 2024. Olivas was a recipient of the 2022 George R. R. Martin Sense of Wonder Scholarship. Olivas’ debut novel, Sundown in San Ojuela, is a gothic spaghetti western that follows Aztec Vampires inCalifornia’s Inland Empire.
Natasha Muse is a stand-up comedian and humorous writer who moved to San Francisco last century and hasn’t been pushed out of the City (yet). She enjoys puns, wordplay, and portmanteaus, and weaves them into jokes and comical bits about being trans, being a mom, and being alone with her thoughts. Some audiences don’t know what to make of her, so it’s a good thing she’s a self-made lady. She has been featured on2 Dope Queens, SF Sketchfest, and Nighttrain with Wyatt Cenac, and has performed up and down the West Coast. Natasha’s comedy is so good it’s not even funny.
Dr. Alex Hanna is Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). A sociologist by training, her work centers on the data used in new computational technologies, and the ways in which these data exacerbate racial, gender, and class inequality. Dr. Hanna is the co-author of The AI Con (Harper, 2025), a book about AI and the hype around it. With Emily M. Bender, she also runs the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 series, playfully and wickedly tearing apart AI hype for a live audienceonline on Twitch and her podcast.
Lio Min is the acclaimed author of Beating Heart Baby, a longtime music reporter, a MacDowell fellow, and a fullmetal optimist. The L.O.V.E. Club is their second novel. Min lives in Oakland, California, and writes toward the future.
June Martin is the authorof LOVE/AGGRESSION, a half-surreal novel about trans animosity and strange houses. Her short fiction has appeared in X-R-A-Y, BULL, Typebar Magazine, and other publications, and her comic zines have appeared wherever zines end up. She was a 2024 Lambda Literary Fellow, and she is currently the fiction editor for New Session.
Michal ‘MJ’ Jones (they/he) is a poet, parent, and editor living in Oakland, CA. Their poetry has appeared in the American Academy of Poets, Obsidian, Split This Rock, Muzzle Magazine, TriQuarterly Review, ANMLY, & elsewhere. Their debut collection of poetry, HOOD VACATIONS, won the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. They are also the author of a chapbook, SOFT ARMOR (2023), from Black Lawrence Press
About Writers With Drinks:
Writers With Drinks has beengoing since 2001, has won numerous "Best ofs" from local newspapers, andhas 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-upcomedy, science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format.
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470 Castro St, San Francisco, CA 94114, United States