Back to School Night, ADULTS ONLY: An Evening of Your a Fat Suckr Bich
Sat, Sep 05
|Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore
Richard Villegas Jr. reads from his irreverent new memoir, Your a Fat Suckr Bich: Notes on the Merry but Perilous Work of Schoolteaching in Los Angeles — a twenty-year veteran's unfiltered account of life on the front lines of the public school system.
Time & Location
Sep 05, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore, 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
About the event
Based in East Los Angeles, Richard Villegas Jr. is a writer whose work spans television, theater, fiction, poetry, and cultural criticism. He was the originator and consulting producer of the half-hour drama series Vida for Starz, contributing to the show’s development from 2015 to 2020. His essays and articles have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Playboy.com, and New American Media. His ten-minute plays Cochino and La Tina Duty were presented at Casa 0101 as part of the Brown and Out Play Festival IV and VI, respectively. He is the author of La Música Romántica (CreateSpace, 2014), a collection of short fiction, and I Heart Babylon, Tenochtitlan, and Ysteléi(CreateSpace, 2011), a hybrid work of short fiction, poetry, and essays. His writings on teaching and queer identity in the classroom are published on his Substack, The Alphabet People: The LGBTQ’s of Teaching Kindergarten.
Organized by: Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore and Gallery
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