Monday, September 21, 6-7pm EDT

Event Recording Available Below

Please join us for a special evening celebrating the release of Morgan Bassichis’s The Odd Years, published by Wendy’s Subway. The event will feature contributions from an exciting lineup of artists and writers: Jibz Cameron (Dynasty Handbag), Rabbi Miriam Grossman, Brian Hochberger, Una Aya Osato, Lorelei Ramirez, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Will Rawls, Dean Spade, and Tourmaline.

This event is co-organized by The Kitchen and Wendy’s Subway. 

About The Odd Years

Every Monday in 2017 and 2019, comedic performance artist Morgan Bassichis created a to-do list. The Odd Years is a collection of those lists, which served both as a way to generate material for live performances and as a place to archive the logistical, emotional, and political business that just kept piling up throughout this two-year project. A record of routine and impossible tasks—some completed and others left unfinished—The Odd Years is one response to the oddness of times in which intensified crisis becomes ordinary. 

To learn more about the book or to purchase a copy, click here.

Wendy's Subway is a non-profit reading room, writing space, and independent publisher located in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Since their founding in 2013, they have provided an open and versatile platform for expanding modes of reading, writing, and publishing. Wendy’s Subway is dedicated to encouraging creative, critical, and discursive engagement with arts and literature, with the belief that equitable access to reading and collaborative forms of knowledge-production are catalysts for social transformation. 

Morgan Bassichis is a performer living in NYC.

Jibz Cameron (Dynasty Handbag) is a performer and enemy of the people but a friend of spiders living in Los Angeles.

Rabbi Miriam Grossman leads Congregation Kolot Chayeinu in Brooklyn, NY.

Brian Hochberger is trying out the name Rissa; Rissa designs mostly books. 

Una Aya Osato is a performer, writer, educator, CareBear, clown, stripper, from NYC.

Lorelei Ramirez is a NYC based artist, comedian, and writer. Follow them online @pileoftears. Now that you’ve read this remember to close your windows and doors at night.

Kameelah Janan Rasheed, a learner from East Palo Alto, CA and based in Brooklyn, NY, creates ecosystems of provisional projects such as sprawling, architecturally scaled, Xerox-based collages; large-scale public installations; publications; digital archives; lecture-performances; library interventions; poems/poetic gestures; and other forms yet to be determined. 

Will Rawls is a choreographer and writer.

Dean Spade lives in Seattle on Duwamish land and works on gender liberation and abolishing police, prisons, and borders.

Tourmaline is here to have some fun.

Images: 1) Cover for Morgan Bassichis, The Odd Years, 2020. Wendy’s Subway. 2) Pages 8–9 in Morgan Bassichis, The Odd Years, 2020. Wendy’s Subway.