{"id":608,"date":"2011-10-21T13:56:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T13:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/c3northampton.org\/?p=608"},"modified":"2015-07-28T02:40:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T02:40:36","slug":"this-monday-1024-choose-your-own-gay-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"This Monday 10\/24: Choose your own GAY adventure!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hampshire College Performing Identity Series continues with:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/c3northampton.org\/?attachment_id=610\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-610\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-610 size-full\" title=\"leahlakshmi\" src=\"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/leahlakshmi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"377\" \/><\/a>Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Love Cake: A Spoken Word Poetry Performance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Monday October 24th 7:00pm<br \/>\nMain Lecture Hall, Hampshire College<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>Love Cake<\/strong>, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores how queer people of<br \/>\ncolour resist and transform violence through love and desire. Refusing to\u00c2\u00a0forget the traumas of post 9\/11 Islamophobia, and Sri Lanka&#8217;s civil war, Love\u00c2\u00a0Cake documents the persistence of survival and beauty\u00e2\u20ac\u201despecially the dangerous\u00c2\u00a0beauty found in queer people of colour&#8217;s lives. Piepzna-Samarasinha maps the\u00c2\u00a0complicated, luscious joy of reclaiming the body and sexuality after abuse,\u00c2\u00a0examines a family history of violence with compassion and celebrates the\u00c2\u00a0beautiful resistance of queer of color love and home making.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>SAME TIME, DIFFERENT PLACE &#8230;!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Food For Thought Books &amp; UMass Stonewall Center present:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/c3northampton.org\/?attachment_id=611\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-611\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-611 size-full\" title=\"OP8\" src=\"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/OP8-e1319204584235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"345\" \/><\/a>ORIGINAL PLUMBING #8:\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><strong>FAMILY MATTERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Monday, Oct 24, 7:00pm<br \/>\nFood For Thought Books, Amherst, MA<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Come celebrate the release of the newest <strong>Original Plumbing issue:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Family Matters, #8!!!<\/strong> Join Amos Mac &amp; Rocco Kayiatos, co-editors of\u00c2\u00a0OP and all your loved ones at Food For Thought Books.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">OP says:\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;Before the first issue of Original Plumbing even came out, a young\u00c2\u00a0single father contacted me asking me when we would make an issue\u00c2\u00a0celebrating and discussing trans families. It took a moment to work out\u00c2\u00a0all the details, but here we are, officially two years into creating\u00c2\u00a0OP, finally presenting to you: <strong>OP #8 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 FAMILY MATTERS.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hampshire College Performing Identity Series continues with: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Love Cake: A Spoken Word Poetry Performance Monday October 24th 7:00pm Main Lecture Hall, Hampshire College In Love Cake, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores how queer people of colour resist and transform violence through love and desire. Refusing to\u00c2\u00a0forget the traumas of post 9\/11 Islamophobia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}