Dear friends,

The But Also reading series returns with a wonderful line up of performers! Please come over for an interdisciplinary evening of performances from Marie Buck, Vick Quezada and Jina Kim.

Marie Buck is the author of Portrait of Doom (Krupskaya, 2015) and Goodnight, Marie, May God Have Mercy on Your Soul (Roof, 2016). She is the managing editor and online literary editor at Social Text and lives in Brooklyn.

Vick Quezada is an artist that currently resides in Western Massachusetts and they were born on the U.S., Mexico border in El Paso, TX. Historically, Quezada has occupied spaces in the grates where worlds clash, this both informs and incites the tension in their work. From 2016-17 Quezada was a curatorial fellow at the University Museum of Contemporary Art and worked with Fred Wilson over the course of a year; which led up to the the exhibit Five takes on African Art. Quezada’s work has exhibited at the Nolen: Smith College, and the Mead Art Museum, the BGSQD, the Living Arts Festival in Tulsa Oklahoma, and they are currently an artist-in-residence at NYU: Latinx Project. Quezada’s work is featured in the issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly, Duke Press 6:4 and the Believer Magazine. Quezada earned a BFA from The University of Texas at El Paso in 2005 and graduated in 2018 with an MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Jina B. Kim is an academic and writer who currently lives in Northampton, MA. She is an assistant professor of English and the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College, where she teaches and writes on race, disability, and gender in the contemporary U.S. Her essay, "Love in a Time of Sickness: On Race, Disability, and Intimate Partner Violence," was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and is forthcoming in The Asian American Literary Review. For the But Also #22, she will be reading a draft of an essay on queer friendship. 

Come over at 6:30 for refreshments and togetherness. Performance to begin at 7pm.

Accessibility Note: This is a first floor apartment with a few steps to the front door. We sometimes burn incense and scented candles. There is a small dog named Patsy.

Bring your friends, lovers, crushes & kin

xoxo,
The But Also
aka Britt Billmeyer-Finn & Zoe Tuck

Email thebutalso@gmail.com for address. FB event listing here.