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(This is the second in a series of articles produced in partnership with journalists from Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle in collaboration with the nonprofit Solutions Journalism Network.)
By ANNAKAI HAYAKAWA GESHLIDER
Part II
Part I introduced the Lit Club program. Part II, below, covers the impact of the recent COVID outbreak at the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) on the Lit Club, as well as background on the Asian Prisoner Support Committee’s ROOTS program.
In August 2020, the Oakland-based Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC) kicked off its Lit Club program at three women’s prisons in California. In the Lit Club, nine partner pairs each with one person in prison and one APSC volunteer choose from a list of books to read together, and then discuss the book via email.
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Below you will find a list of media and information you can check out to learn more about the LGBTQ+ community.
MUSEUM
The GLBT Historical Society Museum, located in the heart of San Francisco s Castro District, is the first stand-alone museum of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender history and culture in the United States. It celebrates the San Francisco s vast queer past through dynamic and surprising exhibitions and programming.
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Lehmann Maupin opens an exhibition of new work by Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña
Cecilia Vicuña: Quipu Girok (Knot Record). Installation view, Lehmann Maupin Seoul, February 18 April 24, 2021. Photo by OnArt Studio. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London.
SEOUL
.-Lehmann Maupin is presenting Quipu Girok, an exhibition of new work by Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña featuring her first painted quipu, a recent video, hand-painted prints, drawings, and an installation of precarios that will engage a dialogue between Korean and Andean textile traditions and techniques. An artist, filmmaker, poet, and activist based in New York, Vicuñas work ranges from performance, to painting, to poetry, to large-scale installations that address pressing concerns of the modern world, including ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenization. The exhibition marks Vicuñas second with the gallery and is her first solo presentation
Bay Area political events: Support for Amazon workers, $15 minimum wage rally
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Upcoming political events in the Bay Area. Events take place online unless otherwise noted:
SATURDAY
Support for Amazon workers: A car caravan to support Amazon workers in Bessemer, Ala., who are voting on whether they want union representation. Caravan will circle Hilltop Mall in Richmond, an Amazon distribution center. 4 p.m. More information is here.
SUNDAY
New Black reconstruction: A webinar on the components of a new Reconstruction through a multiracial anti-capitalist and feminist movement with militant Black working-class leadership. Hosted by the National Comrades of Color Caucus of the Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women. 1 p.m. More information is here.