Come out and join AASU for a night of slam poetry, performed by New York based spoken word artist, Kit Yan! Kit performs theatrical slam poetry pieces about his life as a queer, transgender, and Asian American through stories about family, love, and social justice. Kit has been seen on television programs such as HBO’s Asian Aloud and PBS’ Asian America. Kit’s poetry has been reviewed in New York, Bitch, Curve, and Hyphen magazines and he has toured internationally with Sister Spit, The Trans* Roadshow, and Good Asian Drivers. Kit’s work has recently been featured in Flicker and Spark and Troubling the Line- two new queer and transgender poetry anthologies and has a new book with Transgenre Press available at the merch table. Kit’s solo slam poetry show Queer Heartache was recently awarded two best of Fringe awards in the 2016 San Francisco Fringe Festival and the 2015 Spirit of fringe award, artists’ pick award, and audience choice award at the 2015 Chicago Fringe Festival. Doors open at 6:30 pm! Link to event and details: https://www.facebook.com/events/1363712180314045/