Events

Formerly the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Over 125 films will be screened. In addition, there will be panel discussions, receptions, parties and awards throughout the 12-day event. http://www.qfest.com/

J. Mase III is the author of If I Should Die Under the Knife, Tell My Kidney I Was the Fiercest Poet Around (self-published, $15 pb). Losing a kidney was never as fun, raunchy and queertastic as it is inside of J Mase III’s first book entitled “If I Should Die Under the Knife, Tell My Kidney I was the Fiercest Poet Around!”.  A performer and organ donor, J Mase mixes poetry and storytelling to bring you through a series of relationships gone wrong, politics and a peak at the hyper hip world of being a living donor. If you like wild rides and foul language for a good cause, than this book will take you to the top of the mountain and back with its spot on humor, visually engaging lines and fiercely poignant lyrical montages to the social justice movement as seen through the eyes of a rowdy Queer/Black/Trans poet. A chapbook for a new world of wordsmithing, “If I Should Die” is a book that needs to be on your shelf and in your life. In fact, save a life and buy this book.