Incite: Queer Writers Read – September
Incite: Queer Writers Read is a curated, bimonthly reading series for Queer writers. Incite’s hope is to create conversation, connection, and greater understanding both within the Queer community and with other communities. Hosted by Vinnie Kinsella and Jennifer (JP) Perrine.
The featured readers for September are Elizabeth Weinberg, kim thompson, and Stacey Rice. The theme is “Seasons.”
Vinnie Kinsella
Vinnie’s love for books began in the second grade, when he worked with his fellow students to write and illustrate a story about the adventures of an ice-cream-loving giraffe. Since then he has worked as a writer, editor, book designer, publisher, workshop presenter, and college instructor. He is the editor of Fashionably Late: Gay, Bi, and Trans Men Who Came Out Later in Life and the author of A Little Bit of Advice for Self-Publishers.
Jennifer Perrine
Pronouns: any/all
Jennifer (JP) Perrine is the author of five award-winning books of poetry: Beautiful Outlaw, Again, The Body Is No Machine, In the Human Zoo, and No Confession, No Mass. Their other recent work appears in Best Small Fictions, A Mouth Holds Many Things: A De-Canon Hybrid Lit Collection, and Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, and Poetry. A two-time winner of Arts and Culture Diversity and Inclusion Awards from the Asian American Journalists Association, Perrine lives in Portland, Oregon, where they cohost the Incite: Queer Writers Read series, perform stand-up comedy, and work as the equity and racial justice program manager for Metro Parks and Nature.
Stacey Rice
Stacey Rice is an author, storyteller, and educator who, over thirteen years ago, found her way to Portland from the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina with her Southern accent still intact. She is the former executive co-director of Q Center, Portland’s LGBTQ+ community gathering place, and was also recognized as a Queer Hero by the Oregon Queer History Collective for her work at Q Center and in the greater Portland area. As a recipient of a 2023 Oregon Humanities Community Storytelling Fellowship, she brought visibility to the experiences of older LGBTQ+ adults by writing about and sharing stories of her own journey and others from this underrepresented community.
Stacey’s heart and soul is filled when she is out hiking among the trees and wild places. There is nothing she likes better than sitting under a big Ponderosa Pine tree in the high desert of Oregon. She feels incredibly blessed to call Portland and the Pacific Northwest home. More info about Stacey can be found at www.staceyrice.com.
kim thompson
kim thompson (she/her) is a queer Korean-American adoptee and interdisciplinary artist based in Portland, OR, after 25 years in Europe, South Korea, and Minneapolis. A recipient of the 2023 Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship and other state and national grants, including the 2008 Jerome Travel Grant, kim’s work “the year of the wood rabbit” appeared in Brink (2024), where she now serves as Fiction Editor. Her essay “Dear Mia*” appears in In Our Words, a South Korea–published adoptee anthology (2024). Her work has been featured at Literary Arts, Constellation, and in Minneapolis at Pillsbury House Theatre, the Loft, and the Playwrights’ Center, as well as in Seoul-based media.
Elizabeth Weinberg
Elizabeth Weinberg is an essayist, science communicator, and nature nerd. They are the author of Unsettling: Surviving Extinction Together, and their essays have appeared in Identity Theory, The Rumpus, The Toast, Buckman Journal, and elsewhere. She grew up in the Washington, DC, area, and now lives in Portland with their partner Leslie and their two dogs. Weinberg is currently at work on a book about urban animals.
