grumpystitches:

Zigzag Quilt with Anna Maria Horner Fabric by Dr. G Crafts on Flickr.

"I think the concept of starting is itself so profound, and what that means to various people, and when starting starts and how long starting lasts. And this: does one start before one has actually made the decision to start, so one can be starting—potentially—without even knowing one has started, but then if one decides for the time being not to start, was there never a period of latent starting?"

“My former professor, in an email, after I mentioned I’d written an essay on starting T.” - oxxenfree

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odofemi:

READING AND PANEL DISCUSSION ON TRANS WOMEN WRITERS

WITH IMOGEN BINNIE, TRISH SALAH, MORGAN M PAGE (ODOFEMI), AND KILEY MAY

Wednesday, April 24th, 7 pm - 9 pm

Young Centre for the Performing Arts

50 Tank House Lane

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Author Imogen Binnie is on tour with her new novel, Nevada, and she’s making a stop in Toronto!

Nevada is the darkly comedic story of Maria Griffiths, a young trans woman living in New York City who is trying to stay true to her punk values while working retail. When she finds out her girlfriend has lied to her, the world she thought she’d carefully built for herself begins to unravel, and Maria sets out on a journey that will most certainly change her forever. 

Imogen will be joined by local writers Morgan M. Page, Kiley May, and Trish Salah! Together, these four amazing writers will discuss their experiences as trans women and/or femme-of-centre trans writers, and their hopes for the future of trans literature. 

Bios:

Imogen Binnie is the author of the zines The Fact That It’s Funny Doesn’t Make It A Joke and Stereotype Threat. Additionally, her work has been anthologized in The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard, released in Fall 2012. She is currently a monthly contributor to Maximum Rocknroll and has previously written for Aorta Magazine, The Skinny and PrettyQueer.com. She writes about books atwww.keepyourbridgesburning.com. Nevada, her first novel, was released by Topside Press in April, 2013.

Trish Salah is a writer and a lecturer at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Her writing appears in recent issues of The Volta, Feminist Studies, and The Cordite Poetry Review, and in the collections, Troubling the Line, Selling Sex, and Féminismes électriques. Her current research is on the emergence of transsexual and transgender literatures. She sits on the editorial board of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, and is co-editing the journal’s fourth issue, focused on Trans Cultural Production. She is the author of Wanting in Arabic (TSAR 2002), and recently completed a new poetry manuscript, Lyric Sexology.

Kiley May is a Mohawk Storyteller, Artist, Creator and Shaman. Kiley is also Two-Spirit—a femme of centre Trans person, who happens to also be Queer and Genderqueer and uses they/their/them pronouns. Kiley does creative storytelling with film, photography, writing, journalism, fashion, dance and performance art.

Morgan M Page (Odofemi) is a transsexual performance + video artist, writer, activist, and Santera in Toronto. Her video work has screened in Canada, Korea, and Hong Kong, and she regularly performs and lectures across Canada and the United States. She is the founder and curator of TWAT/fest, the world’s first trans women’s arts festival. Her writing can be found at PrettyQueer.com. Her website is Odofemi.com.

This event is FREE of charge. Brought to you by Topside Press and the Student Association of George Brown College! 

The Young Centre for the Performing Arts is wheelchair accessible (accessible washrooms available), and ASL interpretation will be available! One thing to note is that the Young Centre is in the Distillery District, which is largely paved with cobblestones, which might be difficult for some to navigate. If you have any questions or requests for how we can make this event accessible for you, please feel free to contact Kate at kate.klein@georgebrown.ca!

Tips for parking, and for getting to the Young Centre via TTC:http://www.youngcentre.ca/plan_your_visit/index.html

Accessibility info for the venue: http://www.youngcentre.ca/our_venues/accessibility.html 

Check out Topside Press while you’re at it! http://topsidepress.com/

odofemi:

Excuse me while I go Capricorn this shit.

capricorn and double-espresso it, even. 

 

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Ariko Inaoka - Erna and Hrefna (2009-10) 

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rroobbiinnhhuussttllee:

that last post reminded me of this collection, with perhaps the most perfect book cover of all time

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