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Writing to Resist: Technology, Physicality, Spirituality
May 18 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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The Grand Finale to Our Monthly Speaker Series: The Art, Craft & Business of Writing.
California’s oldest writing club is wrapping up our Speaker Series season with a panel of authors bringing urgent perspectives about technology, physicality, and spirituality to the topic of making change through the power of your pen. You can bring your questions about writing, resistance, and shaping the future for these renowned authors and activists.
About the Panelists
In the Technology Corner: Novelist and Digital Rights Activist Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow is a New York Times bestselling science fiction author and journalist. For more than 23 years, he has been an activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that campaigns for digital human rights.
In the Physicality Corner: Feminist Queer Sexologist Carol Queen
Sexologist Carol Queen has been a force of sex-positive feminism and a global thought leader in our cultural understanding of human sexuality. A two-time Community Grand Marshal of the San Francisco LGBTQ Pride Parade, she’s authored numerous life-changing books such as Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture, Pomosexuals, Exhibitionism for the Shy, and The Leather Daddy and the Femme.
In the Spirituality Corner: Poet Laurate David Holper
Poet and writer, teacher and visionary David Holper is the author of three poetry collections—Language Lessons: A Linguistic Hejira, The Bridge, and 64 Questions. David’s won numerous accolades and awards for his poetry, and served as the inaugural Poet Laureate for the City of Eureka as it entered and endured the pandemic.