R235. Reading in an Age of Chaos

E143-144, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1
Thursday, March 28, 2019
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm

 

Transgender civil rights and funding for the arts are, not coincidentally, both under attack by the United States government. These attempts at restricting access in society for trans and nonbinary people, and the calls to end the NEA are both neofascist tactics to narrow culture itself. Hear from transgender and nonbinary writers and poets who are producing work outside of the staid "coming out" story. Speculative fiction, experimental and narrative poetry, and literary fiction are all represented.


Participants

Moderator:

Everett Maroon is a memoirist, humorist, and fiction writer. He is a member of the Pacific Northwest Writer’s Association and was a finalist in their 2010 literary contest for memoir. Everett is the author of a memoir, Bumbling into Body Hair, and a young adult novel, The Unintentional Time Traveler.

Carter Sickels is the author of the novel The Evening Hour, and the editor of Untangling the Knot: Queer Voices on Marriage, Relationships & Identity. He is Assistant Professor of Creating Writing at Eastern Kentucky University.

Katie Kaput is a queer poet, a zinester, and the kind of mother who makes a pretty bad-ass home. She has had work published in numerous anthologies. You can find her performing her poetry anywhere they will let her and some places they might not if they knew.

Trace Peterson is a trans woman poet critic. Author of the poetry collection Since I Moved In, she is also founding editor/publisher of EOAGH Books, which has won two Lambda Literary Awards, and coeditor of the anthology Troubling the Line, which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in 2014.

Ashley Young is a Black, Queer and genderqueer, poet, writer, tarot reader, and witch. They are a contributor to GO Magazine and have been featured in three anthologies. They are currently working on their first novel, an Audre Lorde-inspired biomythography, as well as a collection of poetry.

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