Aaron Raz Link,
Adam Mansbach,
Ali Liebegott,
Alison Bechdel,
Alvin Orloff,
Ariel Schrag,
Armistead Maupin,
Ben McCoy
Beth Lisick,
Camincha,
Carmen White,
Cherry Muhanji,
Christopher Cook,
Christy C. Road,
Daisy Hernandez,
Daniel Handler,
Darin Klein,
Dayvid Figler,
Diane Di Prima,
Dorothy Allison,
Eileen Myles,
Ellis Avery,
Emanuel Xavier,
Enrique Urueta,
Fran Varian,
Frances Lefkowitz,
Gene Baur,
Gina DeVries,
GLBTHS Board Members & co-chairs of the Archives Committee,
Guillermo Gomez-Pena,
Heather Gold,
Imani Henry,
Jamison Green,
Janel Moon,
Joe Loya,
John Marr
Joshua Gamson,
Juliana Snapper,
Justin Chin,
Kate Bornstein,
Kate Braverman,
Kate Noyes,
Keith Hennessey,
Kevin Killian,
Kim Addonizio,
Kirk Read,
Kriya Traber
Laurie Weeks,
Lenelle Moise,
Lucy Corin,
Lynn Breedlove,
Margaret Tedesco,
Masha Tupitsyn,
Meliza Banales,
Michelle Tea,
Nalo Hopkinson,
Nan Alamilla Boyd,
Nancy Peterson,
Nicole J. Georges,
Noel Alumit,
Pagan Kennedy,
Rebecca Brown,
Rhiannon Argo,
Rhodessa Jones,
Ric Royer,
Robert Gluck,
Roger Pinnell,
Samuel Topiary,
Sara Seinberg,
Sara Shun-Lien Bynum,
Shar Rednour,
Susan Stryker,
Susanna Myrseth,
Tara Jepsen,
Terence Kissack
Tim'm West,
Tina Butcher,
Troung Tran,
Wendy DeLorme,
Yirko Sale and others.
Influences
Free boxes, cookies, pirate radio, talking to strangers on public transit, libraries and librarians, art spaces, basements, coffee, zines and chapbooks, xerox machines, crank phone calls, mail, typewriters, Violette Le Duc, Kris Kovick, Eli Coppola, Chicken, Lisa King, road trips, thrift stores, competitive make-out games, fast food, slow food, food, performance art, video art, sound installations, happenings, Yoko Ono, Eileen Myles' Presidential Campaign, Sylvester, dreams, nightmares, cafes with couches, movie theaters with couches, streets with couches, house parties, graffiti, vandalism, history, nature, outer space, Jean Genet, June Jordon, James Baldwin, open mics, hitchiking, the telephone game, gossip, rumormongering, secret admirerers, farmers markets, flea markets, thinking, dropping out, hairdos, costumes, giving things away, spray paint, yelling, crying in public, making friends, making money, The Sex Workers' Art Show Tour, slumber parties, sewing machines, office supplies, bees and bee hives, David Bowie, neon colors, mix tapes, writing in wet cement, Kari Edwards, Cookie Mueller, Sylvia Plath, Mayakovsky, T.A.Z, mysticism, hard work, slacking off, fairy tales, the ocean, astrology, pigeons, Jerome, home movies, secrets, Buddhism, women's colleges, sex clubs, home-made tattoos, broadsides, running away, talking to yourself, imaginary friends, unreliable narrators, fan letters, alcohol, vans, sunrises, trains, route 10, knowing your rights, bare feet, spiral-bound notebooks, watercolors, microphones, hecklers, Spaulding Gray, Isabella Blow, San Francisco, Brooklyn, the Lower East Side, Los Angeles, Portland, New England, the whole world, planning for the apocalypse, community, bonding, casting spells, bar napkins, bathroom walls, true love.
RADAR Productions is a San Francisco-based non-profit that produces literary happenings around the Bay Area and beyond. Founded by queer writer and spoken word performer Michelle Tea, RADAR produces the monthly RADAR Reading Series at the San Francisco Public Library.
A showcase of underground heroes, emerging voices and bonafied superstars, each RADAR Reading features four dynamic performers and is followed by a lively question and answer session with the audience, during which home-made cookies are doled out to participants. Literature and cookies, together at last!
RADAR Productions is also home of the Radar SALON Series, a quarterly event sponsored by the Harvey Milk Branch of the San Francisco Public Library and currently held at Vince and Pete's Three Dollar Bill Cafe at The Center in San Francisco. Host Michelle Tea interviews two past RADAR readers for one hour, followed by a reading. The RADAR reading and the Radar SALON are always FREE.
Each year, RADAR puts SISTER SPIT: The Next Generation on the road, bringing a rotating crew of female-centric performers, writers and artists across the United States, staging cabaret-style shows in universities, bars, discos, art galleries, indie bookstores and community spaces everywhere.
RADAR produces creative literary events each June as part of The National Queer Arts Festival (SF), and in 2009 will launch radarLAB, an annual writers' retreat for individuals in the process of completing a book.
RADAR Productions is generously sponsored and supported by the CA LGBT Arts Alliance, the California Arts Council, San Francisco Arts Commission, Zellerbach Foundation, Grants for the Arts, Horizons Foundation, Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, the James Hormel Center, and the Queer Cultural Center.
thank you radar for consistently providing truly excellent opportunities for emerging queer creators to share/make/createMORE. i'll keep my clothes on for you any day.
thank you for finding me on here. it is good to see some more lively sf awakening on the literary front. i'm interested in what is going on around town in the next month or so if you know of some things?
RADAR Productions is generously sponsored and supported by the CA LGBT Arts Alliance, the California Arts Council, San Francisco Arts Commission, Zellerbach Foundation, Grants for the Arts, Horizons Foundation, Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, the James Hormel Center, and the Queer Cultural Center.
