Semiotext(e) x Dopamine
Conversation & Readings
Current Bookshelf Resident Semiotext(e) recently launched DOPAMINE, a new collaboration that elevates queer writing and writers through a nurture and promotion of work outside of mainstream LGBTQI+ storytelling, focusing on writers who resist assimilation with work that stretches the boundaries of what defines “queer.”
Join Hedi El Kholti of Semiotext(e) and co-founders of Dopamine Michelle Tea and Brooke Palmieri for a convesation with Medaya Ocher, Editor in Chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books, as they explore this new publishing endeavor. The panel will be joined by writers Clement Goldberg, Brooke Palmieri, and Chris Vargas, each sharing readings throughout the program.
Conversation with Hedi El Kholti, Michelle Tea, and Brooke Palmieri; moderated by Medaya Ocher.
Readings by Clement Golberg, Brooke Palmieri, and Chris Vargas.
DOPAMINE is a queer literary organization that aims to elevate LGBTQI+ writing and writers through publishing, reading series, literary tours, and workshops. We look to nurture and promote queer work that falls outside the mainstream of even LGBTQI+ storytelling: work that is experimental, by writers resisting assimilation; work that stretches the boundaries of what defines ‘queer’ by writers with intersecting identities; work that is raw, by writers who are self-taught. DOPAMINE honors the outlaw heritage of queer artists and looks to writers who are not complacent, complicit, or gentrified, and whose work challenges the status quo through voice, content, or existence.
