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Live and Recorded Online Webinar Thurs June 22 7:30-8:30pm EDT For LGBTQ+ and Allies! |
FREE Live Online Book Reading for Pride Month
Eli Andrew Ramer, the author of "Two Flutes Playing" & "Two Hearts Dancing!" will read from his new book EVER AFTER: THE EXTENDED LIVES AND WORK OF ELEVEN FAMOUS WRITERS A JOYFUL CELEBRATION OF QUEER IMAGINATION ... |
Spirit Journeys is delighted to celebrate Pride with a very special Live Book Reading with Queer Walks-Between Elder and Maggid Eli Andrew Ramer. In this joyful celebration of queer imagination, Eli will read from his new book, "Ever After: The Extended Lives and Work of Eleven Famous Writers."
As Eli describes the book, it his his invitation to "imagine an alternate reality--where Jane Austen, Henry David Thoreau, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Emily Dickinson, Emma Lazarus, Oscar Wilde, Marcel Proust, Colette, Virginia Woolf, and Franz Kafka--all lived longer lives--wrote the poems, stories, and books we read in school--one of which changed history--and lived happily ever after with someone of the same gender. Get a cup of tea, turn off your phone, and let's travel to this other world!"
You are invited to participate in this live webinar through Zoom, but the broadcast will be recorded for later viewing if you cannot attend any part of the scheduled sessions. There will be time for discussion, questions, and answers as well.!
Here are a few wonderful reviews for the book, which is available at https://bookshop.org/p/books/ever-after-andrew-ramer/20045629?ean=9781666771589
“Queer lives are often thwarted. What might we be if being fully authentic was not denied to us? In Ever After, Andrew Ramer retells the lives of authors whose queerness has been suggested, hinted at, implied, and denied and asks what coulda, shoulda, mighta been. His delightful stories have a healing message: embrace who you are and tomorrow can come true.” —Will Roscoe, author of Queer Spirits
“What if the past had been a little different? Andrew Ramer is the master of mythologizing the human story. What an imaginative and insightful way to consider how arbitrary, evanescent and changeable our ideas of reality are! What if all those stories about unhappy homosexuals had turned out happily ever after instead? Ever After offers over ten such alternative stories. Seeing how things could have been different gives us hope they still might be different. And that’s what brings it about.” —Toby Johnson, author of Gay Perspective
“The transformed lives that Andrew Ramer dreams up for us in Ever After are spookily believable. I trust these wild, ingenious histories and the deep truths they convey: that desire is the life force, that our bodies can be answered prayers, that our souls recognize each other and are meant to touch.” —Joan Larkin, author of My Body
As Eli describes the book, it his his invitation to "imagine an alternate reality--where Jane Austen, Henry David Thoreau, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Emily Dickinson, Emma Lazarus, Oscar Wilde, Marcel Proust, Colette, Virginia Woolf, and Franz Kafka--all lived longer lives--wrote the poems, stories, and books we read in school--one of which changed history--and lived happily ever after with someone of the same gender. Get a cup of tea, turn off your phone, and let's travel to this other world!"
You are invited to participate in this live webinar through Zoom, but the broadcast will be recorded for later viewing if you cannot attend any part of the scheduled sessions. There will be time for discussion, questions, and answers as well.!
Here are a few wonderful reviews for the book, which is available at https://bookshop.org/p/books/ever-after-andrew-ramer/20045629?ean=9781666771589
“Queer lives are often thwarted. What might we be if being fully authentic was not denied to us? In Ever After, Andrew Ramer retells the lives of authors whose queerness has been suggested, hinted at, implied, and denied and asks what coulda, shoulda, mighta been. His delightful stories have a healing message: embrace who you are and tomorrow can come true.” —Will Roscoe, author of Queer Spirits
“What if the past had been a little different? Andrew Ramer is the master of mythologizing the human story. What an imaginative and insightful way to consider how arbitrary, evanescent and changeable our ideas of reality are! What if all those stories about unhappy homosexuals had turned out happily ever after instead? Ever After offers over ten such alternative stories. Seeing how things could have been different gives us hope they still might be different. And that’s what brings it about.” —Toby Johnson, author of Gay Perspective
“The transformed lives that Andrew Ramer dreams up for us in Ever After are spookily believable. I trust these wild, ingenious histories and the deep truths they convey: that desire is the life force, that our bodies can be answered prayers, that our souls recognize each other and are meant to touch.” —Joan Larkin, author of My Body
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Andrew Elias Ramer is a Maggid (Jewish sacred storyteller) living in San Francisco, California. Born in Queens, New York in 1951, he believes that the prophetic tradition and storytelling are one and the same. The job of a storyteller is to create a narrative that holds a group together, forms the fabric of thought that a community or village of people inhabit. Andrew grew into being a maggid through many moments and teachers. He was spiritually formed through many communities including the Gay Spirit Visions Conference in North Carolina, and the New York Healing Circle, which flourished during the early AIDS years. His mentors, collaborators and guides have included Charles Lawrence, Donna Cunningham, Harry Hay, Raven Wolfdancer, Rabbi Benay Lappe, and Rabbi Dev Noily. He is a member and one of many lay leaders at Congregation Sha’ar Zahav in San Francisco. After years of spiritual wandering, it was in Torah study with Dev Noily at Sha’ar Zahav that he found wisdom, comfort and a rich new way to live as a Queer Jewish man. Andrew writes in a genre he calls "queer feminist speculative-fiction theology" and is the author of four books of midrash: Queering the Text: Biblical, Medieval, and Modern Jewish Stories; Torah Told Different; Deathless; and Fragments of the Brooklyn Talmud, with a fifth due out in 2022, Texting with Angels. He's also the author of Two Flutes Playing, Two Hearts Dancing, Revelations for New Millennium; Angel Answers; and a co-author of Ask Your Angels; The Spiritual Dimensions of Healing Addictions and Further Dimensions of Healing Addictions. Andrew Ramer is a Lambda Literary Award finalist. He lives in Oakland, California, up the street from an amusement park called Fairyland. For more information visit: andrewramer.com