April 16, 2025 · 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. PT
What role does poetry play in shaping our sense of self and our connection to the world? How can poetic expression illuminate identity, belonging, and universal truths?
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WeHo Reads: Feminism and Fearlessness During Women’s History Month
March 19, 2025 · 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. PT
How do writers channel their imaginations to confront fear, champion equity, and reimagine the world? How can their fearless storytelling inspire advocacy and action?
Read More …20 Rasheed Newson interview
Rasheed Newson, television writer and producer and author of My Government Means to Kill Me, discusses the fallout from the HIV/AIDS crisis. In conversation with host Cody Sisco, Rasheed talks about the ascendance of sex positivity thanks to PrEP, how his novel imagines a young gay Black man in 1980s New York encountering ACT UP, and the legacy of the Gay Liberation and Civil Rights movements.
Photo credit: Christopher Marrs
Rasheed is the author of My Government Means to Kill Me, which examines the political and sexual coming of age of a young, gay, Black man in New York City in the mid-1980s. The novel was a 2023 Lambda Literary finalist for Gay Fiction and was named one of the “The 100 Notable Books of 2022” by The New York Times. Rasheed lives with his husband and their two children in Pasadena.
WeHo Reads: Power and Progress During Black History Month
February 26, 2025 · 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. PT
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How do writers use their imaginations to empower themselves and their audiences? How do their stories shape the future?
Read More …WeHo Reads: Through a Lens Queerly
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 | 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. PT
What makes a memory? What makes an idol? Through what lens do we examine ourselves and our community?
Join us for a discussion about queer lives, the stories we tell both in words and images, and how we see each other.
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