Feminist Bookstore Reading Series & Open Mic Featuring Kazim Ali

Join us for a queer-friendly, feminist reading series at The Feminist Bookstore in Mission Hills!

Our series celebrates diverse voices alongside a featured reader. Before or after the main reading, we have a generative workshop where attendees get a prompt and write for 10 minutes. This helps generate new material that attendees can share at the open mic portion. After that, the microphone is open for attendees to share up to 3 minutes of prose, poetry, or music in an inclusive, welcoming space. Tickets are free, and we invite all to participate and amplify their voices. Hosted by Jaded Ibis Press, a nonprofit feminist press dedicated to socially engaged literature by marginalized voices, this series promises an inspiring night of creativity and community.
Feature: Kazim Ali is a highly acclaimed and prolific author known for his work in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, including essays and literary criticism. He explores themes of identity, migration, and the intersection of cultural and spiritual traditions. Ali is also a translator, editor, and educator, currently a professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.
Emcee: Elizabeth Earley is the author of two novels: A Map of Everything, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and Like WIngs, Your Hands, which won the Women's Prose Prize at Red Hen Press. Little Deaths all in a Row, Essays on Sex and Death is forthcoming in September and is available for preorder. Earley is also the owner of The Feminist Bookstore and the president of Jaded Ibis Press.