Tim Jones-Yelvington–of whom Martin Seay says, “Where Bowie’s costumes and theater were designed to create slippage between the pop star’s mask and the face behind it, and where Madonna launched a thousand dissertations by embracing that role of pop-star-as-floating-signifier, and Lady Gaga has seemingly READ some of those dissertations and plugged their contents back into her own pop project, Tim is actually using pop forms to DO theory, which is more fun than it sounds like it might be”–is turning 30! 

Come celebrate his birthday with a first-time-ever combined lineup of literary readers and drag & gender-bending performers, with performances/readings by Debbie Fox, Ruby Dee, Joyelle McSweeney, Johannes Goransson, Jac Jemc, James Tadd Adcox, me, and Tim himself on Sunday, July 29 at 7:00 at Beauty Bar, 1444 W. Chicago Ave.

PURCHASE ADVANCE TICKETS for a suggested donation of $5 ($10 at the door). Proceeds from this event will benefit the Crossroads Fund, a public foundation that supports grassroots groups working for racial, social and economic justice in the Chicago area.