Show Us Your Spines is a 6-week residency cofounded by
Julian Delgado-Lopera, Mason J. and SFPL Hormel Center in 2018, which allows artists to create new work inspired by underrepresented, lesser-known, or exceptionally detailed queer legacies. The residency is open to artists of color who identify as LGBTQIA2S+ and are working  on novels, poetry, sci-fi, afrofuturism, youth literature, literary based performance arts, playwriting, songwriting, on-screen histories and more

​SUYS provides artists over the age of 18 with the support they need to create personal and political writings.  They have access to the San Francisco Public Library's LGBT Archives and other local resources, including oral histories, storytelling, record and film collections, zine libraries, meeting rooms, and public programs. They also have the opportunity to meet and collaborate with queer youth and elders, SFPL staff, and globally recognized scholars. 

Radar's team, past and present, has always believed Show Us Your Spines is an essential lockstep of history, future seeing, and modern mischief in the fight for queer visibility, BIPOC equity in the arts, and trans representation.

After helping dozens of our 75 previously enrolled writers go on to get published or finish projects using work generated during their time, we dream that the residency continues to amplify voices and create a more hopeful Bay Area.