September 2, 2017
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Mixed-Race/Mixed-Up: Writers of Warbrides
Leg Three | 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM | 32. Betti Ono Gallery

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Event Description

Mixer 2.0 brings to the stage the legacy of America's foreign policy. War and military service produced the writers interrogating the course of empire. Mixer 2.0 is a reading every third Thursday of the month, graduate students from the Bay Area’s various MFA programs mingle, drink, read, listen, and finally dance until 2 am. The public is greatly welcomed. Litquake’s Mixer 2.0 is curated by Sean Labrador y Manzano, Nick Johnson, and Jeff Von Ward. 

Co-Curators: Jeff Von Ward and Nick Johnson

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Curator: Sean Labrador y Manzano

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Sean Labrador y Manzano lives on the island off the coast of Oakland, imagines snorkeling or canoeing every day in his birthplace, Hawai’i. He is the founder of Mixer 2.0, an M.F.A. reading series held every third Thursday of the month at the Cat Club in San Francisco. His most recent essay, "Rambo Summer" is read here, http://theeastbayreview.com/rambo-summer-by-sean-labrador-y-manzano/.

Event Readers

Lehua M.Taitano

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Lehua M.Taitano, author of A Bell Made of Stones (poems, TinFish Press), is a queer Chamoru poet, writer, and supporter of decolonization and social justice for indigenous peoples everywhere. Peep them with your critical eye at lehuamtaitano.com.

Wei Ming Dariotis

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Wei Ming Dariotis is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, with an emphasis on Asian Americans and Chinese Americans of Mixed Heritage and Asian American and Chinese American Literature, Arts, and Culture, at San Francisco State University. With Laura Kina and Camilla Fojas, she co-coordinated the Inaugural Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, at De Paul University, 2010.

Julie Thi Underhill 

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Julie Thi Underhill is a Bay Area poet, essayist, photographer, filmmaker, artist, and performer of Cham-French-Scottish-Irish-American ancestry. She is currently a doctoral student at UC Berkeley. Her website is jthiunderhill.com.

Joanna Anabo Matys

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Joanna Anabo Matys of Alameda returns from the lingering outrage of the modernist cocoon, the University of California Santa Cruz, the Pacific precipice. She has never left the island. No one really does.

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