RADAR Productions seeks an organized, detail-oriented Managing Director to join our team. The Director’s responsibilities include acting as a member of RADAR’s leadership, develop annual budgets, handle day-to-day financial and human resources operations, support the execution of programming and participate in organizational strategy.
The managing director works closely with the executive director to implement RADAR’s four core programs and ensure the financial stability of the organization. Availability to work evenings is required. The ideal candidate has thorough understanding of QuickBooks and is fluent in all aspects and functions of bookkeeping. Passion for queer literature and creativity is a must.
Booking, budgeting and managing of annual Sister Spit literary tour (two weeks in Spring).
Founded in 2003, RADAR Productions is one of the nation’s highest profile literary arts organizations focused on queer and trans people of color (QTPOC). Our presenting, commissioning and touring programs re-imagine what the literary arts can be, stimulate the production of work by QTPOC artists and explore the community-building role played by literature and the arts. Our programs build community and create a platform for innovative, emerging and mid-career queer and trans artists of color whose works challenge mainstream concepts of culture, race, gender, sexuality and class and authentically reflect the experiences of QTPOC.
Throughout its 13-year history RADAR has employed the arts to build and amplify a queer community that creates innovative artistic interventions to culture, meaningful transformation for artists’ lives and life-changing and life-affirming access to the literary arts for our audiences. RADAR has always prioritized an inward-facing method: queer artists dialoguing with queer audiences in hopes of strengthening and affirming community, rather than queer artists representing a monolithic queer experience to straight audiences in hopes of being humanized. As such, RADAR prioritizes artistic process/practice, recognizing that the spirit of experimentation, creativity and “art first” has greater potential for cultural change than the expectation that queer artists consistently be expected to be representational first.
​Below, you will find 3 poems from Muggs Fogarty.
without sound, a dark pit.
teeth bite hard to spurn my wild tongue’s fits.
bring me hate speech in transit.
I have a seat, I sit.
& dream up a palace where I’m King I fit.
GLOW | QUEER POETRY FEATURE: R.Y.R.
Happy August queer babies! Welcome to the end of the summer, but the beginning of something much bigger, fibrous, more permanent. We took a break from GLOW for the month of July but are back louder and queerer than ever. It’s with great excitement that we will be featuring not one but TWO queer poets each and every month for our GLOW series. That means every 2 weeks you get to go on a hot literary date with a new poet of our choosing and a small batch of their fresh new poems.
In the spirit of queer politics and privacy & not being out to the whole of our complicated families, this month’s feature contributes under the name R.Y.R.
Below, you will find three of her poems.