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Hands in the Soil, Legs on the Pole: Queerness in the Material Realm
Sunday October 4, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Great Lawn, Yerba Buena Gardens
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FREE, $10-$15 suggested donation

Sponsored by Yerba Buena Gardens Festival & Yerba Buena Partnership
Media sponsorship by 48 Hills
A part of the Litquake Out Loud series

How is a tree like a stripper pole? Where do the poetics of physicality and ecology overlap? As digital spaces collapse into slop and surveillance, how can queer communities in the material world dig and twerk toward pleasure and liberation? Here, QTBIPOC writers Brandon Logans, Kevin Madrigal Galindo, May-Li Khoe, and Nnenna Loveth explore the sensuality, tenderness, and resilience of both body and earth. These landworkers, dancers, and poets discuss how queerness informs and supports their relationship to tangible space, natural environs, and embodied movement. Curated by Mukethe Kawinzi. 
Speakers
avatar for May-Li Khoe

May-Li Khoe

May-Li Khoe (they/she) is a queer interdisciplinary artist, designer, and writer, born in the Netherlands to Chinese-Indonesian immigrant parents and raised in Vancouver, Canada. In the past, she invented new ways for people and computers to interact, many of which you probably use... Read More →
avatar for Mukethe Kawinzi

Mukethe Kawinzi

Mukethe Kawinzi is a trans shepherd and land steward working at the intersection of the pastoral, modern negritude, queer identity, and contemporary rural life. He has farmed in sustainable and organic agriculture for six years, with a focus on small ruminants, artisanal cheesemaking, non-violent livest... Read More →
avatar for Brandon Logans

Brandon Logans

Brandon Logans is a poet from Oakland, California. His debut collection published by Black Lawrence Press, Phosphene, was a finalist for the 94th California Book Award. He might describe himself as a rectangular sheet of honey 30” x 62”, 6” above any surface... Read More →
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Nnenna Loveth

Nnenna Loveth (they/she) is an Igbo lesbian poet, dancer, and facilitator who tells stories of liberated Black matriarchal futures. They are utilizing the relationship between dance and poetry to explore themes of Black sapphic intimacies, mother-daughter connections, Odinala, and healing from... Read More →
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Kevin Madrigal Galindo

Kevin Madrigal Galindo (he/they) is a queer chicano hijo de su chingada madre from South San Francisco by way of Zapopan, Jalisco. He works as a chef teaching kitchen basics and nutrition through ancestral, plant based recipes in the Mission. Kevin hopes to stop the amerikkkan war machine and build a bett... Read More →
Sunday October 4, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Great Lawn, Yerba Buena Gardens 700 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
  Litquake Out Loud, FREE

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