RADAR Productions

07/25/2025

🔥🌿 Huge congratulations to (2021 Show Us Your Spines Artist Residency) on the upcoming release of their stunning, new collection Wayward Creatures 💥

With lush ferocity, crip wisdom, and ritual fire, these poems overgrow colonized verbiage and offer portals into a wilderness of q***r kinship, abolitionist dreaming, and sacred revolt. ✨

This is not just a book. It is entangled survival, a spell for unlearning separation, ableism and igniting what’s possible. 🌾📖🌺

📚 Out Aug 30th from – support q***r poetry and get your hands on this liberatory wonder. Pre Order here: https://hostpublications.com/products/wayward-creatures-by-heidi-andrea-restrepo-rhodes ***rPoetry ***rEcologies

10/25/2023

Congo, seen from the heavens is a collection of poems that journeys through not often told history from the Congolese and Black diaspora to deliver its warnings, lament, and hopes. From the perspective of a refugee, this book addresses the complex relationships between home and survival while rooting itself in the reminder that we are [our] “ancestor’s best outcome.” From the heavens, our whole Earth can appear so small. Yet this view also allows us to see ourselves as infinitely precious; that in our tiny stake in the universe, we are worthy of existing in full splendor. Congo, seen through this lens, is more than a bereft, grieving country—it is a testament to survival, a land of dense yearning, prepared to fight.

09/21/2023

Can't wait to be in lgbtq2s+ community once again for this one-of-a-kind event!

09/04/2023

📚 Join us on September 21st from 6-7:30 pm at the James C Hormel Center (3rd Floor) for 'Show Us Your Spines' 🌈✨ A free QTBIPOC Residency Reading celebrating Q***r History and Interdisciplinary Wisdom, hosted by SFPL and Radar Productions! 😍📖 Don't forget your mask or to snag one or ours, as it's required to join the fun! 😷 Stick around for an engaging Q&A session after the artist offerings 🌟 ***rHistory

08/05/2023

📚🚨 New Book Alert! 🚨📚 Introducing "Birdsong from Nowruz" by Justin Ebrahemi [.babaaganoush] a brilliant mind from our May-June 2021 residency. 🌈🌿💥 Here’s a glimpse at the cover and their offering to us “Scarlet Wednesday" which was cultivated amidst library closures. Expanding on the themes they explored during their time with us Justin's book delves deep into diaspora across time and place, weaving a tapestry of beauty and pain within the first-generation Persian American existence. 🦜🎶🌺 Buy it here amzn.to/44W6qFK and get ready to embark on an ethereal literary journey! 📖✨ ***rlit

07/22/2023

🌈✨ Calling all bookworms and enthusiasts! 📚✨ We are excited to be 5 days away from the long-awaited return of our in-person "Show Us Your Spines" readings! 🎉 Join us as we and celebrate the power of Q***r Literature in today's political climate, by witnessing the incredible talents of Yaminah, B, London, Nabil, Victoria, and Amalee. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️📖

🗓️ Date: 7/26/2023
🕖 Time: 6-7:30pm
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As the first reading on-site since 2020 the offerings of these talented writers, aren't to be missed they'll invoke history, challenge norms, and inspire change 💪🌟 Be prepared to laugh, cry, cruise, make a new friend.
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06/28/2023

✨ We're thrilled to announce the return of in-person events for 📚 after two challenging years of the ongoing pandemic and a whole year of revamping our program to uplift and support residents we are excited to introduce six writers to the space 🌈 Get ready for a night of writing, LGBTQ history, and BIPOC resplendence! 📝We look forward to seeing you Wed July 26th, 6-7:30 pm in the Hormel Center.

05/22/2023

Keep those submissions comin’, folks! Our ED and program manager are so excited to be less than a week away from the selection process of one of RADAR's most beloved programs. As the Bay Area kicks off Pride month, we are eager to fill these 24 spots for q***r and trans artists of color to receive 1on1 support, $750, and the chance to create new literary work using one of the world's premiere q***r archives. Please share far and wide with your networks, and we look forward to reading your work!

05/10/2023

03/18/2023

Congrats to chapbook contest winner ! We cannot wait to share your work with the world and had a blast partnering with & to witness three fantastic judges unanimously choose this year's winner

03/12/2022

After two years doing on-line only shows, we've officially returned to the stage! Thank you so much to everyone who joined us in El Rio’s backroom; we had a blast and cannot wait to let you know where we'll end up next in the upcoming months