Kirin Khan
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Events

Readings and Conferences

Sep
25
7:00 PM19:00

The Racket #34 : Celebrity w/ Leland Cheuk

#34: We're not going to sugar coat it: we're a little obsessed with the idea of CELEBRITY. Not like we're sneaking around the perimeter of Brad Pitt's house, trying to get a glance of him in a towel or anything (those days are past us). We mean, the idea of our national obsession with those who are famous. The magazines and the websites and the television programs that we all zombie-like consume, hands outstretched, reaching for more famous people stuffffff. Why? Seriously, someone tell us, when did our collective brains fuse into sawdust bricks who's only ability is to want to be someone more 'famous' than us?

The Racket is a (mostly) monthly reading series that seeks to save the world through the cultivation of ground up unicorn horn powder. Also, writing.

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PEN Presents: Re-writing the Family - LAMBDA LITFEST
Sep
22
4:00 PM16:00

PEN Presents: Re-writing the Family - LAMBDA LITFEST

A night of curated readings exploring the idea of family: How we break down the notions placed upon us as LGBTQ+ POC folx, and how we build and place ourselves within the context of family today.

Featuring: Alumni of the Emerging Voices Fellowship (which is its own kind of extended family) who are also members of the LGBTQ+ community will read short pieces of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction curated to the theme.

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Literary Arts Showcase | APAture 2018 - RE:place
Oct
27
7:00 PM19:00

Literary Arts Showcase | APAture 2018 - RE:place

We’ve asked artists to explore ‘place,’ including but not limited to: displacement, reclaiming space, relationship or orientation to place, movement and migration, the loss or lack of place, or the various dimensions of place (spatial-emotional, past-present, individual-communal, etc.). How does ‘place’ resonate with you?

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KSW Presents “I’m Here To Do Everything But Fall In Love” with SF Arts Commission.
May
18
7:00 PM19:00

KSW Presents “I’m Here To Do Everything But Fall In Love” with SF Arts Commission.

On May 18, KSW Presents “I’m Here To Do Everything But Fall In Love” with SF Arts Commission. Writers Lisa D. Gray, Kirin Khan, Ploi Pirapokin & Jasmine H. Wade explore love for their communities & themselves in relationship to racism, colorism, alienation. Presale Tix: kswpresents07.eventbrite.com

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Mar
10
3:00 PM15:00

AWP 2018 Panel: Breaking Fast with Words

  • Room 5 & 6, First Floor, Tampa Convention Center (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Breaking Fast with Words: Five Years of Poetry-a-Day for Ramadan

Moderator and Founder of Poetry-a-Day for Ramadan Taz Ahmed  discusses building writing communities that function as sites of resistance, along with regular group contributors Kirin Khan, Serena Lin, Ramy Eletraby, and Faisal Mohyuddin.

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Mar
9
9:00 AM09:00

AWP 2018 Panel: Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From

  • Marriott Waterside, Meeting Room 1, Second Floor (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Join me as a moderate a conversation between Mohja Kahf, Taz Ahmed, Zahra Noorbaksh, and Sarah Harvard! 

"In response to the current political climate, writers from Muslim backgrounds, especially women, are often called on to discuss who they are rather than what they do. This panel will talk less about hijab and regimes and more about the courage to write freely and the transformative power of art. Discussion will focus on the telling of daring, beautiful, and impactful stories about Muslims, ask the question: Can stories about people from marginalized communities ever be viewed as universal?"

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