Thursday, July 11, 2024
Join us for the launch of a double volume, two books in one, both by trans Ottawa-based writers!
About the book:
Imogen Reid’s Accept Yourself Or Die: From Mormon Missionary to Trans Punk travels from small-town Northern Ontario, to the Missionary Training Centre in Provo, Utah, to basement shows in Ottawa. It’s a story about staying stubbornly human in a world that wants to destroy you, and also about how weird it is going door-to-door trying to convert people to Mormonism.
Flip the book over to read:
Crossdresser: Growing Up Trans in the 1990s and 2000s, by Kat Rogue, explores what it does to a closeted trans girl to grow up saturated in the transmisogyny of 1990s pop culture and to come of age online, and how she managed to build her own relationship to femininity despite that. It argues that crossdressing, femme, and transness are more closely linked than some people think, and that Ace Ventura: Pet Detective really could have been great without all the transmisogyny.
The books are published by Sheer Spite Press back-to-back for a double gut-punch of heartfelt, angry, and funny reflections on transfemme coming of age.
Contact lee@sheerspite.ca for questions.
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Date:
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Thursday, July 11, 2024
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Time:
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6:30 pm Eastern Standard Time
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Location:
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Venus Envy Warehouse, 329 Catherine Street
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Duration:
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approximately 2 hours
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Masks:
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required
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This is a hybrid event: in-person at Venus Envy and online via Zoom. Registration closes 3 hours before the event. Zoom codes will be emailed the day of the workshop once registration closes, please check your spam folder!
Email our events coordinator jamie@venusenvy.ca for:
- questions about the workshop
- accessibility information/requests
- troubleshooting Zoom
- late registration (after 3:30pm EDT the day of the workshop)
