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Listeners can find the video recording of Summer of Hate as discussed in the podcast here. 

Influx Collectiv is run by its co-founder Cori Bratby-Rudd and collaborator Diana Gutierrez. Influx is a queer poetry reading series that connects LA based poets, promotes queer events, and provides a space and platform for queer creators and queer content. Influx is for audience members to hear stories that reflect their own, and for performers to find an audience who understands. We host events monthly and each reading features new poets and takes place at a different location throughout Los Angeles. Influx Collectiv was recently featured in an article by VoyageLA, the Alhambra Source, and the Occidental. We can be found through our website, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. The Facebook event has all of the accessibility information posted.

Walking Amongst the Rubble is supported by a grant from the City of West Hollywood’s Arts Division as part of the City's One City One Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival (May 22 - June 30). More info at www.weho.org/pride or @wehoarts.

For more information, please visit: Influxcollectiv.org or email Cori Bratby-Rudd at Influxcollectiv@gmail.com.

Background Music Credit: Undocuqueer Stride by Diana Gutierrez 2021 copyright. 

Jennif(f)er Tamayo (they/them) is a poet, performer, and educator. As a formerly detained undocumented migrant, their writing and performance reimagines and queers cultural narratives about “illegal migration” and belonging. They are the author of the visual art and poetry collections [Red Missed Aches, Read Mistakes, Red Mistakes, Read Missed Aches] (2011), YOU DA ONE (2017) and to kill the future in the present (2018). JT has received fellowships from the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, The Arts Research Center, Hemispheric Institute, and CantoMundo. Their work has been staged at The Brooklyn Museum, BAMPFA, Midtown Arts & Theatre Center Houston, and La Mama Theatre among others. JT currently lives on Saponi, Occaneechi Saponi, Eno and Shakori territories (sections of the Triad region of North Carolina) where they are building a school with their partner, family and doggies.

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Please support our programming by joining our Patreon. 

LA’s freshest free monthly queer poetry reading series, Influx Collectiv, welcomes their inaugural first season: Walking Amongst the Rubble: Undocuqueer Pride  and episode three features an interview and performance by Marinna Benzon. You can find her at her website: https://www.marinnabenzon.com/about 

Please support our programming by joining our Patreon. 

Influx Collectiv is run by its co-founder Cori Bratby-Rudd and collaborator Diana Gutierrez. Influx is a queer poetry reading series that connects LA based poets, promotes queer events, and provides a space and platform for queer creators and queer content. Influx is for audience members to hear stories that reflect their own, and for performers to find an audience who understands. We host events monthly and each reading features new poets and takes place at a different location throughout Los Angeles. Influx Collectiv was recently featured in an article by VoyageLA, the Alhambra Source, and the Occidental. We can be found through our website, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. The Facebook event has all of the accessibility information posted.

Walking Amongst the Rubble is supported by a grant from the City of West Hollywood’s Arts Division as part of the City's One City One Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival (May 22 - June 30). More info at www.weho.org/pride or @wehoarts.

For more information, please visit: Influxcollectiv.org or email Cori Bratby-Rudd at Influxcollectiv@gmail.com.

Background Music Credit: Undocuqueer Stride by Diana Gutierrez 2021 copyright. 

Please support our programming by joining our Patreon. 

Influx Collectiv is run by its co-founder Cori Bratby-Rudd and collaborator Diana Gutierrez. Influx is a queer poetry reading series that connects LA based poets, promotes queer events, and provides a space and platform for queer creators and queer content. Influx is for audience members to hear stories that reflect their own, and for performers to find an audience who understands. We host events monthly and each reading features new poets and takes place at a different location throughout Los Angeles. Influx Collectiv was recently featured in an article by VoyageLA, the Alhambra Source, and the Occidental. We can be found through our website, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. The Facebook event has all of the accessibility information posted.

Walking Amongst the Rubble is supported by a grant from the City of West Hollywood’s Arts Division as part of the City's One City One Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival (May 22 - June 30). More info at www.weho.org/pride or @wehoarts.

For more information, please visit: Influxcollectiv.org or email Cori Bratby-Rudd at Influxcollectiv@gmail.com.

Background Music Credit: Undocuqueer Stride by Diana Gutierrez 2021 copyright. 

Episode two features an interview and performance by poet/author Yessica M. Avila Barojas. You can find Yessica at her instagram. @yma051

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Influx Collectiv is run by its co-founder Cori Bratby-Rudd and collaborator Diana Gutierrez. Influx is a queer poetry reading series that connects LA based poets, promotes queer events, and provides a space and platform for queer creators and queer content. Influx is for audience members to hear stories that reflect their own, and for performers to find an audience who understands.  

Walking Amongst the Rubble is supported by a grant from the City of West Hollywood’s Arts Division as part of the City's One City One Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival (May 22 - June 30). More info at www.weho.org/pride or @wehoarts.  

For more information, please visit: Influxcollectiv.org or email Cori Bratby-Rudd at Influxcollectiv@gmail.com.  

Background Music Credit: Undocuqueer Stride by Diana Gutierrez 2021 copyright.

LA’s freshest free monthly queer poetry reading series, Influx Collectiv, welcomes their inaugural podcasts’ first season:

Walking Amongst the Rubble: Undocuqueer Pride.   Episode one features an interview and performance by poet/author/artist Roxana Preciado. You can find Roxana at her website.   https://roxanapreciadoauthor.com/  

Please support our programming by joining our Patreon.   

Influx Collectiv is run by its co-founder Cori Bratby-Rudd and collaborator Diana Gutierrez. Influx is a queer poetry reading series that connects LA based poets, promotes queer events, and provides a space and platform for queer creators and queer content. Influx is for audience members to hear stories that reflect their own, and for performers to find an audience who understands.  

Walking Amongst the Rubble is supported by a grant from the City of West Hollywood’s Arts Division as part of the City's One City One Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival (May 22 - June 30). More info at www.weho.org/pride or @wehoarts.  

For more information, please visit: Influxcollectiv.org or email Cori Bratby-Rudd at Influxcollectiv@gmail.com.  

Background Music Credit: Undocuqueer Stride by Diana Gutierrez 2021 copyright.

Season one: Walking Amongst the Rubble: Undocuqueer Pride will include poetry performances and interviews by LA-based award-winning undocuqueer poets Roxana Preciado, Féi Hernandez, Yessica Avila, Diana Gutierrez, Marinna Benzon, and Sonia Guinansaca. Fans of the series can now enjoy the poetry they love from their bedrooms or their commuter vehicles.

Please support our programming by joining our Patreon. 

Influx Collectiv is run by its co-founder Cori Bratby-Rudd and collaborator Diana Gutierrez. Influx is a queer poetry reading series that connects LA based poets, promotes queer events, and provides a space and platform for queer creators and queer content. Influx is for audience members to hear stories that reflect their own, and for performers to find an audience who understands. We host events monthly and each reading features new poets and takes place at a different location throughout Los Angeles. Influx Collectiv was recently featured in an article by VoyageLA, the Alhambra Source, and the Occidental. We can be found through our website, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. The Facebook event has all of the accessibility information posted.

Walking Amongst the Rubble is supported by a grant from the City of West Hollywood’s Arts Division as part of the City's One City One Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival (May 22 - June 30). More info at www.weho.org/pride or @wehoarts.

For more information, please visit: Influxcollectiv.org or email Cori Bratby-Rudd at Influxcollectiv@gmail.com.