Please join us for the book launch and party for Capsid : A Love Song by Joseph Osmundson.

Published in April by Indolent Books, Capsid is a hybrid essay that uses personal narrative and lyrical science writing to confront contemporary realities of living with HIV regardless of HIV status.  After 30 years, HIV has fundamentally shifted how we understand bodies and health, sex and sexuality, activism and art.  With pre- and post-diagnosis anti-retroviral therapy continuing to change the shape HIV infections, we badly need new HIV narratives that confront and explain our contemporary interactions with the virus.

Osmundson will be joined by Jennie Gruber and Darnell L. Moore in readings that will deal with bodies and health and sex and joy. Indolent Books founder Michael Broder will introduce the chapbook.

Suggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Darnell L. Moore is a Senior Correspondent at MicNews, Co-Managing/Editor at The Feminist Wire and writer-in-residence at the Center on African American Religion, Sexual Politics and Social Justice at Columbia University.  Darnell’s advocacy centers on marginal identity, youth development and other social justice issues in the U.S. and abroad. A prolific writer, Darnell has been published in various media outlets including MSNBC, The Guardian, Huffington Post, EBONY, The Advocate, OUT Magazine, Gawker, Truth Out, VICE, Guernica, Mondoweiss, Thought Catalog, Good Men Project and others, as well as numerous academic journals including QED: A Journal in GLBTQ World Making, Women Studies Quarterly, Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media & Technology, Transforming Anthropology, Black Theology: An International Journal, and Harvard Journal of African American Policy, among others.

Jennie Gruber is a writer, educator, media-maker, queer punk, and true karaoke believer. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence. Her writing has appeared on Vice, Helix Queer Performance Network, Fleshbot, and Gaga Stigmata, in The Believer, AORTA, and Whore! magazines, and in several Cleis Press anthologies. Her workshops and readings have been featured at a variety of venues, including Red Umbrella Diaries, Perverts Put Out, Lesbian Sex Mafia, and the Feminist Porn Conference. Born in Northern California, Gruber now lives in Manhattan with a very sweet bear.  Her books include Love Not Given Lightly and a recent how-to guide to sexting aptly titled Sexting.

Joseph Osmundson is a writer and scientist from rural Washington State.  He is an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow in Systems Biology at NYU.  His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, The LA Review of Books, Gawker, The Rumpus, Salon, and The Feminist Wire, where he is an Associate Editor.