BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1464587:Event:654143 DTSTAMP:20260420T165607Z SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Jiz Lee and Juliana Delgado Lopera! DESCRIPTION:San Francisco's most eclectic spoken word event is back, w ith haunted America, porn star activism, and tons more! When: Saturda y, Oct. 8 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM Who: Colin Dicke y, Jiz Lee, Juliana Delgado Lopera, Wonder Dave and Micah Perks! How m uch: $5 to $20, all proceeds benefit the CSC Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco About the readers/performers: Colin D ickey is the author, most recently, of Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places (Viking), an exploration of some of the country's mo st haunted places, and what they tell us about the darker side of our history. He is also the author of Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius, which details the fates of several famous skulls th at were stolen in the nineteenth century, and Afterlives of the Saints : Stories from the Ends of Faith. He is also the co-editor of The Morb id Anatomy Anthology, and has written for The Believer, The New Republ ic, Lapham's Quarterly, and elsewhere. He currently teaches creative w riting at National University. Jiz Lee has worked in the adult film i ndustry for over a decade, spanning independent erotic films and hardc ore gonzo pornography. A versatile performer and key player in the que er porn movement, Jiz has received industry nods and feminist porn awa rds, and in 2015 was honored at The Trans 100. (Jiz is nonbinary and u ses the pronouns they/them.) Their writing has appeared in The Feminis t Porn Book, Best Sex Writing, and Global Information Society Watch: S exual Rights and the Internet. They are the co-editor of the Porn Stud ies Journal Special Issue: Porn and Labour. Their first book, Coming O ut Like a Porn Star was named “Best Sex Work Books” by Reason Maga zine and is the largest collection of essays written by porn professio nals about their industry. Learn more at ComingOutLikeaPornStar.com. ( They also urge you to vote NO on Prop 60.) Juliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer/educator/oral-historian based in San Francisco. The recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary award, and a fi nalist of the Clark-Gross Novel award, she’s the author of ¡Cuénta melo! an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT La tin@ immigrants awarded the Regen Ginaa Grant from Galería de la Raza and a 2014 National Queer Arts Festival Grant from the Queer Cultural Center. Her work has been published in Four Way Review, The Bold Ital ic, Weird Sister, Revista Canto, Transfer Magazine, Raspa Magazine, Bl ack Girl Dangerous, and SF Weekly among others. Wonder Dave is a wri ter and performer from Minneapolis, MN, now living in California. He h as toured the country performing at poetry venues, comedy shows, schoo ls, cabarets, science fiction conventions, burlesque shows, and bowlin g alleys. He is the host of San Francisco’s Literary Pop. He is a fi xture at the underground variety show Tourettes Without Regrets. Find him online at WonderDave.org The Los Angeles Times called Micah Perk s’ first novel, We Are Gathered Here (1997, St. Martin’s), “a ti ghtly woven story that is as fanciful as it is grimly real.” Her mem oir, Pagan Time, came out in paper in 2009 from Counterpoint, has been translated into Korean and is an audio book from audible. \n\nFor mor e information visit http://trueskool.com/events/writers-with-drinks-wi th-jiz-lee-and-juliana-delgado-lopera DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161002T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161002T190000 CATEGORIES:"san francisco", "bay area", sf, california LOCATION:The Make Out Room, San Francisco, CA WEBSITE:http://makeoutroom.com URL:http://makeoutroom.com CONTACT:415-647-2888 ORGANIZER;CN="Charlie Jane Anders":http://trueskool.com/profile/Charli eJaneAnders ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg": ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Charlie Jane Anders":http://trueskool.com/profile/CharlieJaneAnders END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR