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Neither Created Nor Destroyed: Iftar, Reading and Discussion

  • 3036 24th Street San Francisco, CA 94110 USA (map)

Join us for an evening of poetry and a community iftar with Zara Jamshed reading from their first book of poetry, Neither Created Nor Destroyed. tanea lunsford lynx joins us, in conversation with Zara about lineages, ancestors, and the process of writing a book. 

A book signing will follow. Light food and refreshments provided. 

Accessibility: Medicine for Nightmares’ event space is wheelchair accessible. The bathroom is not. Masks provided and encouraged. An air purifier will be provided in the space. Event speakers will COVID test 24 hrs prior to the event and we encourage attendees to do the same!  The event will be livestreamed on FB at @StillHereSF. Please request signed language interpretation by March 2nd.

Neither Created Nor Destroyed: Iftar, Reading and Discussion is brought to you in collaboration with Still Here San Francisco. Founded in 2012 Still Here San Francisco (SHSF) is an Intergenerational cultural preservation project amplifying the voices and creativity of LGBTQ2S+ Black, Indigenous, and People of Color raised in San Francisco. For more information go to stillheresf.org or follow us at @StillHereSF

Bios: 

Zara Jamshed is a queer, trans, disabled, Pakistani American poet and engineer from New York City. They are the winner of the Penrose Poetry Prize for LGBTQIA+ writers and have work published in The Arrow, Keppel Health Review, Kiwi Collective Magazine, and the Protest Through Poetry Anthology. Zara is an inaugural Kaleidoscope Writing Workshop participant with The Queer Ancestors Project and Still Here San Francisco, and has had their work supported by Anaphora Arts, Kearny Street Workshop, Periplus Collective, Open Mouth Literary, Sundress Academy for the Arts, THEYFRIEND, and VONA. Putting their engineering degree to use, Zara currently works to bring the economic and environmental benefits of solar energy to California's low-income renters. They live in Emeryville, California.

tanea lunsford lynx is a fourth-generation Black San Franciscan on both sides. tanea is a writer, educator, and cultural worker. She teaches Social justice and Ethnic Studies classes at City College of San Francisco. In 2023 she debuted her first solo exhibit, we were here, at the Main Branch of the San Francisco Public Library about the Black experience of surviving the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. You can find her work online at tanealunsfordlynx.com

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