Tag: book launch

Book LAUNCH in San Francisco

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Hubo duende and a lot of xingonería at the QUEEREST.LIBRARY.EVER: the Hormel LGBTQI+ Center at the San Francisco Public Library. Our event TU PALABRA Y MI CUERPO DE LENCHA / YOUR WORD AND MY DYKE BODY was everything we had hoped for, and then some 😊. We might be taking this show on the road Maribel Martinezx y Liliana Hueso. The naming of ourselves is barely getting started 🔥🔥🔥

We are incredible grateful for everyone who showed up and shared such a beautiful space and conversation with us. We are specially thankful to librarian and program manager Cristina Mitra for her flawless support and logistics, to the Friends of the SFPL NiebleSF for their sponsorship, and to NieblaSF bookstore for their vending.

So much orgullo queer xingonero 🥹

Local Book LAUNCH at Banter Bookstore

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Banter Bookstore put together a lovely setting and family, friends, and new faces from the community showed up. That was truly special. I felt at home, because I was 🫣. It was magical to finally be able to share “Naming the Body: A Queer Woman’s Restorative Mapping of the Self” (Mouthfeel Press, 2026) with my English speaking community. Books sold out 🫢. Thank you! Gracias! Obrigada! Me voy a dormir con el corazón colmado ❤️🥹

Lives of Common Lesbians book PRESENTATION

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Lives of Common Lesbians, a book published by Sinister Wisdom featuring new writing that reflects and honors iconic lesbian and feminist publication from the 1980s CL/LL, short for “Common Lives / Lesbian Lives”, was launched via zoom as part of Los Angeles One Institute “Queer Histories Festival” this year.

What an honor it was for this common lesbian who mostly writes in Spanish to be able to read LAUNDRY -a poem about love, desire and domesticity included in the book- and the poem that inspired it, also included in the book, LIMBO, a piece by Jacqueline Woodson originally published by CL/LL in 1988, the year I started college back in Spain. This writing excercise was an attempt to connect with the sisterhood of Iowa’s 1980s lesbian and feminist movement. I believe I succeeded!

Above is a copy of CL/LL quaterly #28 from Fall 1988 cover and index including Woodson’s poem. You can find other quaterly information and copies in this archive

Everybody say LESSBIANS! Say LESSBIANS!

The lovely evening was attended by over a 100 people, mostly lesbians. What a rush! And it ended, as it is tradition in all Sinister Wisdom’s programing, with music, singing and dancing to the tune of “Everbody say… LESSBIANS”.

The program was also a class on queer women’s collective art, activism and community organization. See it for yourself at Sinister Wisdom’s youtube channel. It was a privilege to be part of this trip down memory lane, a lane that so many other queer women walked before us!

You can purchase the book here