Queer Memoir is New York’s longest running and most startingly earnest community-based LGBT storytelling series curated by Kelli Dunham; at every event we bring together some of NYC's best known storytellers and folks who have never been on a stage in their lives.
This event is free to enter, we'll pass the hat to support Queer Memoir workshops. The venue is being generous with us and has asked that we advertise a two item minimum, so it would awesome if folks come hungry and eat Branded's ta...
Queer Memoir is New York’s longest running and most startingly earnest community-based LGBT storytelling series curated by Kelli Dunham; at every event we bring together some of NYC's best known storytellers and folks who have never been on a stage in their lives.
This event is free to enter, we'll pass the hat to support Queer Memoir workshops. The venue is being generous with us and has asked that we advertise a two item minimum, so it would awesome if folks come hungry and eat Branded's tasty food and/or buy selterzer or a drink or whatever.
With our storytellers:
Priya Arora
Ashlynn Salzano
Virginia Vitzthum
Lisa Haas
Rathini Kandavel
Kelli Dunham
BIOS:
Priya Arora
Priya Arora is a community activist, editor, writer. Born and raised in California, Priya has found a home in New York City, where she currently works as a Front Page Editor at Yahoo and the Identities Editor at Brown Girl Magazine. Her writing has appeared on The Huffington Post, Autostraddle, Brown Girl Magazine, The Aerogram and more. When she’s not working, Priya enjoys watching old school Bollywood movies, laboring over NYTimes crossword puzzles, and reading books she never finishes.
Ashlynn Salzano
Ashlynn Salzano is NYC-based stand up comedian. She host and runs her own weekly show called HUMP DAY COMEDY NIGHT
on wednesdays at Coogans . You can also catch her performing all over NYC , her comedy is raw, observational , and honest with a little hint of compassion that she digs really deep down to get .
Check her out on twitter @ Ashlynn Salzano
Virginia Vitzthum
VV's writing has appeared in Elle, Ms., the Village Voice, Washington City Paper, and salon.com, where she had a column. She wrote I Love You, Let's Meet: Adventures in Online Dating, a "chunky" (small humor book), and has contributed to several other books. She is editor of Represent http://www.representmag.org/, by and for youth in foster care.
Rathini Kandavel
Rathini Kandavel Rathini Kandavel is a Tamil-Sri Lankan-American, queer transgender educator and writer known for being cautious. Born and raised in a large Tamil-Sri Lankan community near Los Angeles, Rathini lives in NYC where he practices throwing caution to the wind. He has participated in Bushra Rehman’s Two Truths and a Lie workshop series and attended VONA/VOICES workshop in June 2016. His writing is inspired by his community.
LISA HAAS
Lisa Haas is a writer and actor. She has appeared in queer indie films and has performed in many NYC alternative & downtown venues. She is currently working on two new comedies for the stage, “Doris Anderson: A Second Life” and “UN-Bad.” She loves it when people pay a visit to her website: www.lisa-haas.com.