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home school reading #5

Online N/A, Portland

June 12, 2020, 4pm PDT on TWITCH Yale Union hosts home school’s fifth poetry reading, featuring Legacy Russell, S*an D. Henry-Smith, and manuel arturo abreu. These artists and thinkers work at the nexus of embodied abstraction, networked selfhood, and ephemeral tactics. Previous home school readings can be viewed at home school’s tumblr. Legacy Russell is a curator, writer, and artist. Born and raised in New York City, she is the Associate Curator of Exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Recent exhibitions include Projects 110 : Michael Armitage, organized with Thelma Golden and The Studio Museum in Harlem at MoMA (2019); Dozie Kanu : Function (2019); Radical Reading Room (2019) at The Studio Museum in Harlem; and MOOD : Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2018-19…

Free

Butch Is Not A Dirty Word: ISSUE 7 ONLINE LIVESTREAM TICKET

Online N/A, Portland

Date: Friday 12th June 2020 - 6.30 PST Location: Online Join us in celebrating the launch of issue 7 which is dedicated to butch for butch friendships and romance. This edition of our magazine jumps into the lives of 36 butches from all over the world - exploring how they met, what their relationships mean to them and how they navigate the world together. Our newest issue will be launched through an online Livestream event. We’ll have butches from each of our previous issues, telling their stories live to an international audience - this means YOU! This will be an opportunity to meet the butches behind the stories from the magazine and to have a live and interactive experience with them. All proceeds will go…

$5 – $25