2026


2025



SIX AND GREEN SUMMER

aka Hot Girls with Balls book tour ;)


Tour Graphic with Header "Hot Girls with Balls Book Tour," cover of book in top right, headshot of Benedict in bottom right with border "six and Green Summer" and dates (also below) to the left and Catapult logo in bottom left: July 1 -  LAUNCH @ Yu and Me, NYC (w/ Sugar Vendil, Leah Abrams, Hannah Bae, Jasmine Gibson, Jeanne Thornton)   July 23 - Loyalty Books at MLK Library, DC  (rsvp)  (w/ Serena Zets)  Aug 1 - Center for Fiction, Brooklyn (tix) (w/ Naomi Xu Elegant, Stephanie Wambugu, Torrey Peters)  Aug 7 - Booksmith, San Francisco (rsvp) (w/ Colin Winnette)Aug 11 - Clio's, Oakland (w/ Soleil Ho) Sept 8 - Franklin Park Reading Series, Brooklyn Sept 11 - t4t reading series at Model Café, Boston Sept 13 - Riff Raff, Providence  Sept 20 - Provincetown Book Festival Sept 21 - Brooklyn Book Festival
July 1 - Yu and Me Books, NYC (w/ Sugar Vendil, Leah Abrams, Hannah Bae, Jasmine Gibson, Jeanne Thornton)
July 23 - Loyalty Books at MLK Library, DC  (rsvp) (w/ Serena Zets)
Aug 1 - Center for Fiction, Brooklyn (tix) (w/ Naomi Xu Elegant, Stephanie Wambugu, Torrey Peters)
Aug 7 - Booksmith, San Francisco (rsvp) (w/ Colin Winnette)
Aug 11 - Clio's, Oakland (w/ Soleil Ho) (rsvp)
Aug 31 - Basketdolls Finals at Thomas Boyland Park (w/ Nonbinarian Book Bike) (more info or donate)
Sept 4 - Dean’s Top Surgery Benefit at Hive Mind Books, Brooklyn (rsvp or donate)
Sept 8 - Franklin Park Reading Series, Brooklyn
Sept 11 - t4t reading series at Model Café, Boston
Sept 13 - Riff Raff, Providence
(w/ Chrysanthemum) (more info)
Sept 20 - Provincetown Book Festival
Sept 21 - Brooklyn Book Festival (more info)



  • May 3: Book Launch – One Thing Follows Another by Sarah Rosenthal and Valerie Witte and “Live Choreography” Performance with Sally Silvers @ Performance Space New York - free rsvp
  • April 16: taught a virtual workshop “How to Rehearse” with at Louis Place - become a member here
  • April 2: zoom reading with the Poets & Writers Get The Word Out 2025 Fiction cohort - rsvp for link here
  • March 27: “Don’t F*ck with Ba” screening - PANO Shorts Showcase @ NYU Tisch - tix
  • March 25: gave lec dem “Shock Absorption” for Lisa Ko’s Memory Piece paperback launch @ PT Knitwear - tix here
  • March 20-22: performed with Sally Silvers in a new dance work ‘You Better’ at Roulette - tix here

2024

2023

2022

  • read at LittlePuss Press Winter Salon - Dec 16
  • performed with Sally Silvers in Pandora’s New Cake Stain @ Roulette - Dec 1-3 (tix here)
  • modeled for Thúy Custom Clothier at DapperQ Fashion Show NYFW @ Brooklyn Museum (tix here)
  • produced “4 x fifteen: (re)member” at New York Botanical Garden (info here)
  • co-produced Jordan Demetrius Lloyd's "JEROME" with The Nerve Studio (RSVP here)
  • final stage project managed iele paloumpis' "In Place of Catastrophe" for Danspace Project
  • co-produced COMMUNION with Johnnie Cruise Mercer for BAAD!
  • spoke on keynote panel for Dance/NYC symposium (re-watch here
  • contributed performance video to 48th Annual New Year's Day Marathon @ Poetry Project

2021

  • facilitated a Performance Philosophy Reading Group Discussion @ Center for Performance Research
  • with Johnnie Cruise Mercer/TRPNYC
    • co-produced and performed in Communion: Southern Stir
    • contributed text to process memoir 6: thenowlater, journey 3 (SOUL)
    • facilitated craft talk with Proteo Media @ zoom
  • interviewed Anh Vo re; their work Baby Lift @ Leslie Lohman Museum
  • #softbods: Jordan Demetrius Lloyd's "The Last Moon in Mellowland" screening and discussion @ Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance!  (info here)

2020

  • #softbods  Jordan Demetrius Lloyd's "The Last Moon in Mellowland" @ ISSUE Project Room  (info here)
  • Interviewed Lan Cao and Harlan Margaret Van Cao on their new memoir Family in Six Tones @ AAWW's IG Lunch (full video here)
  • Performed in Brandon Collwes' and John King's "Sonic Gathering XXII" @ zoom (archived on YouTube)
  • #softbods "the corpus is exquisite, the equinox is vernal" solstice edition @ Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD!)
  • #softbods "the corpus is exquisite, the equinox is vernal" process-residency @  Center for Performance Research (canceled due to COVID-19)
  • Saturday Afternoon Conversation #3, @ Danspace Project's 2020 Platform "Utterances from the Chorus"  (more info here)

2019

  • #softbodsAnnie + Sok re-staged This Mother/land Fabric (from vpss) @ New York Live Arts (info here)
  • read new poems at Nodutdol's 20th anniversary celebration
  • performed in a new work-in-progress by John Jasperse @ Sundays on Broadway (info here)
  • spoke on panel with The Portal / students Bard College's Center for Curatorial Studies
  • modeled for Stuzo Clothing at DapperQ NYFW @ Brooklyn Museum
  • #softbods: loveconductors present "ghoul|take III" @ ISSUE Project Room (info here)
  • modeled for the A/C SPACE at DapperQ x AirBnb World Pride
  • modeled for CFGNY's show "Surface Trend" (see coverage in Vogue)
  • #softbods: "very peak summer solstice" (#vpss)
    • June 18: craft talk + reading @ Asian American Writers Workshop (info here)
    • performances at ISSUE Project Room (info here)
  • Hecha / 做 Pop Up + Group Exhibition  (info here)
    • a lite exhibit: i leave you with scraps of words, plastic, postcards, and stickers and layers but mostly #geminiszn
  • performed with Kristina Bermudez @ NEXT@Graham
  • Anchor Participant for Dance/NYC Junior Committee's Dancer's Marketplace
  • #softbods "revolutionary new moon in aquarius" (rnma) @ ISSUE Project Room (info here)
    • Mixed Media + Performance Workshop @ Materials for the Arts (info here)