Gina Rae Duran 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💚

Guess what came in time for yesterday’s reading!!

Please use this link to RSVP. There will be free food: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads...

Today, 9/14/25 3-4 pm PST, on kqbhla.com, we are Coming Full Circle Through the Art of Play. We chat about dreams, the importance of playing with friends as children and adults, techniques to exercise our creative muscles, and more with singer songwriter, musician, artist, teacher,—Tara Tavi.

HARRIET TUBMAN, FORCE OF NATURE from @whatonearth.bsky.social “is told via wrenching, earthy poems...complemented by eye-catching collage illustrations in which people are clothed in newsprint ‘to show that that they…were always and still are, important news’” www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/harr...

I’m so looking forward to this! I’ll be reading an excerpt from my Introduction for The White Picket Fence.

Now on Substack!
I really enjoyed the opportunity to interview artist Stan Hunter, as we discuss the importance of exploration and perspective in play.

open.substack.com/pub/byginadu...

flyer for WeHo Reads

WeHo Reads: Voices of Transformation
Wed., Oct. 8 | 6:30–8 pm
In Person: West Hollywood Library Community Room

Free, RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads...

@ginaraeduran.bsky.social @damnedpoet.bsky.social @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social @booksoupofficial.bsky.social @bookswellclub.bsky.social

This episode has been moved to Monday at 12pm PST, 9/1/25.

Something got screwed up. My episode didn’t play but I will still be airing it on the podcast. I will update everyone about the live version today.

Today on kqbhla.com, from 3-4pm PAT!
For our first episode of season 5: professor, ceramic artist, and author Stanton Hunter chats on The Collective about exploration and perspective in play, and how it connects to art and life. Airing this Sunday, 8/31/25, 3-4pm PST, on kqbhla.com

Coming Soon! The Collective: Season 5, Collective Play. #TheCollective on 101.5 fm and kqbhla.com.

Do you know the quickest way to learn, & when the highest levels of conscious learning and connections are? Tune into The Collective for our series on #CollectivePlay, Season 5!

Flower bag explosion! Guess who was right under me—as usual. At least he was entertained. But that’s what makes him Dandy Dandelion:

There’s no deny’n
He’s Dandy
The Dandelion

Trust that he has a song and that’s only a verse. They all have songs.

An invitation to embrace childlike wonder and create through the artistic practice of play, @inlandia_institute.

Play as Practice: Or How to Celebrate the Mess with Gina Rae Duran
(For all adults of all abilities, ages, and writing levels. All genres.)
On ZOOM. Info at InlandiaInstitute.org.

Dandelion helping with my mandated reporter training, learning how to catch a frisbee (he caught it twice), and sitting patiently while I got ready to take him for a walk.

I’m trying to understand why it’s only a temporary restraining order. It should be against the law.

The recording of my reading from my not yet published poetry book "Ballad of My Body," at the Poetry Performance Workshop.
YouTube link (also in my bio):
youtu.be/ofYfGTh735s?...

Yes, I guess several people did. The preorder has been up since February. I think. I definitely sent an email. So strange, I’ll send out another.

Juanita and I will be doing a reading at Ugly Mug for the forthcoming anthology The White Picket Fence: Stories of Individuality as Rebelliousness on September 24th at 8pm. Mark your calendars! 💗

Preorder your copy now.

lease tune in for this super powerful collaborative episode of hope, truth, courage, light, and love between four Super Mujeres Bridging the Gap, on The Collective and CMTY Linve and Bridge the Gap.
3-4pm PST, on 101.5fm
Kqbhla.com

Please tune in for this super powerful collaborative episode of hope, truth, courage, light, and love between four Super Mujeres Bridging the Gap, on The Collective and CMTY Linve and Bridge the Gap.
3-4pm PST, on 101.5fm
Kqbhla.com

I love you all. Every. Single. Fucking. One. Of. You.
May we know peace and abundant love and joy.

That would be correct. I already called him an insane dictator. I want to know why we don’t have a loophole or law in the constitution to immediately protect citizens.

Collective Sex Positivity and Accessibility The Collective with Thea Pueschel

Thea Pueschel, as we discuss neurodivergence, creating an accessible theatrical experience for all, and her new play of a neurodivergent character looking to get laid in the satirical comedy, “The Injustice of Virginity.”
Now on Substack and Spotify.

open.substack.com/pub/byginadu...

Right?! How does the victimization of the oppressed become about the oppressor. Oh wait, because then they can’t oppress.

Today, 3-4 pm PST on kqbhla.com, with psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott. Tune into The Collective to learn about Scott’s newest book Nightbird : A Memoir, and more.

Welcome professor and award winning author, Desiree Zamorano.
We chat about the Chavez Ravine, Sylvia Mendez’ fight against segregation, mass illegal deportations of Mexican Americans during the 1920-1930’s, and the hidden histories of segregation.
substack.com/@ginaraedura...

She’s amazing! I love her poetry too.