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BIPOC Reading Series – February

Wed, Feb 26, 2025 from 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PST
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This monthly reading series is intended to prioritize the safety, creativity, and stories of Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Color.

Come listen to our featured readers, or sign up to share your work in our open mic. Readings will be followed by a short community discussion. Hosted by Kyle Yoshioka and Jessica Meza-Torres. The featured readers for February are mhd borhan and Shin Lee.

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.

Jessica Meza-Torres

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.

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Kyle Yoshioka

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.

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mohammad borhan ortega-allam

mohammad borhan ortega-allam

mohammad borhan ortega-allam lives in Portland, OR, in a multi-generational, multi-racial household with an adorable but demanding Russian Blue cat named Luna. As the founder and facilitator of Yallah! Muslims Write, he supports self-identifying Muslim artists through ongoing workshops and an online community. A participant in the 2025 Tin House Summer Workshop, he is collaborating with Mipsterz on a soon-to-be-launched literary magazine for social and political satire, titled The Bazarre. Currently, he is hard at work on his debut novel, Thank You for Being White, a biting, no-holds-barred comedic takedown of white supremacy and the white wellness industry.
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Shin Lee

Shin Lee

Shin Lee (she/they) is a Taiwanese American third-culture kid born in the suburbs of New Jersey who finally put roots down in Portland in 2019. She spends her time thinking about food systems, community, and identity while nesting, gardening, and snuggling her pup Goose.

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