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BIPOC Reading Series
Hosted by Kyle Yoshioka and Jessica Meza-Torres, this monthly reading series is intended to prioritize the safety, creativity, and stories of Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Color.
The featured reader for December is Amelia Ralston-Okabayashi.
This event is open to everyone, but only people who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color will be invited to read. If you have any questions, please contact Jessica Meza-Torres at jmezatorres24@gmail.com or Kyle Yoshioka at kyle.yoshioka@gmail.com.
***This event is rescheduled from November 26***
Jessica Meza-Torres
Jessica Meza-Torres is from San Jose, CA. She is a co-host at the BIPOC Reading Series, sometimes writer, sometimes designer, and always Mexican. She writes about the light at the end of the tunnel.
Kyle Yoshioka
Kyle Yoshioka thinks and writes a lot about belonging. He is the founder and editorial director of Provecho, a publication about the intersection of food and identity, and co-hosts the BIPOC Reading Series at Literary Arts. His writing projects have been supported by the Independent Publishing Resource Center, the McCormack Writing Center Workshop (formerly the Tin House Workshop), and the Andy Warhol Foundation's Precipice Fund. Kyle is working on his debut novel about a multigenerational Japanese American family that explores whether inheritance is destiny.
Amelia Ralston-Okabayashi
Amelia Ralston-Okabayashi, known as Mealz in digital space, is a systems poet, new media artist, and mythopoetic mystic. She writes from her multidimensional perspective engaging with paradox as scaffolding for convolution that sprouts new forms. Their work stems from her mixed-cultural identity, neurocomplexity, and magical practice that inspires the mediums described in their poetry. She is currently developing a form of telepathic poetry, leaving myths and archetypes in the web of consciousness.
