this reading will explore: “How to write the migrations, distinctions, the threats to one’s humanity? — Hoa Nguyen (on Kimberly Alidio's, after projects the resound (Black Radish)How to rearticulate survival as more as just survival but as a flourishing in spite of marginalized positionality, gender binaries, patriarchy and other systems of oppression?How language and the retranslation of language in poetry can be a fulcrum to recovery, which lies at the intersection of identity and gender?*The title of the event takes its name from Ayesha Siddiq's podcast, Pushing Hoops with Sticks, Vol. 2: You're Not Crazy and then from Kimberly Alidio's poem, "Bodies in spaces forced to accommodate," in after projects the resound