LOS ANGELES, CA, November 16th 2019—As a part of our free monthly queer poetry reading series, our November event will be held at Other Books (2006 E Cesar E Chavez Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90033) and will feature LA based queer poets: Heather Neumann, Demeter Appel-Riehle, Day Heisinger-Nixon, Alexander The Greatest, and Nneka Jackson. The doors open at 7:30. We will serve water and wine for a suggested donation. Founded in 2018, Influx is now run by its original co-founder…

Moderated by Simon Romero, New York Times National Correspondent Earlier in this century, President George W. Bush’s administration sought to celebrate the U.S.-Mexico border as America’s front door. But in the years since, the border has been widely portrayed by politicians as a source of problems, and today most news is about illegal immigration, abuses of migrants by Customs and Border Protection, or President Trump’s family separation policy. This deluge of negative coverage obscures the fact that the border region…

The Little Tokyo Historical Society (LTHS) will host a celebration of the 90th anniversary of the Japanese Hospital in Boyle Heights on Sunday, December 1 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. at Tenrikyo Mission Headquarters at 2727 E 1st Street in Los Angeles. The celebration will include presentations on the history of the hospital and the surrounding neighborhood of Boyle Heights, recognition of former patients of the hospital as well as those who worked there, a taiko performance by Yoki Daiko…