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New Strategies in Trans Storytelling
Saturday, March 26, 2022
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
The past several years have seen an explosion of trans stories and a vibrant, seemingly limitless array of new strategies used to tell them. Four trans and nonbinary writers consider how their work explores “trans” themes through multiple lenses, rooted in craft and technique: temporal recursiveness and cyclicality; shifts in voice and genre; and narratives that criss-cross normative understandings of geographic, cultural, and linguistic borders.
Participants
Jeanne Thornton is the author of Summer Fun, The Dream of Doctor Bantam, and The Black Emerald, as well as the coeditor, with Tara Madison Avery, of We're Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology, and the copublisher of Instar Books (www.instarbooks.com). jeannethornton.com
Megan Milks is the author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body and Slug, a revised edition of their award-winning first collection Kill Marguerite and Other Stories. They are coeditor of the anthology We Are the Baby-Sitters Club and teach writing and gender studies in New York.
Bishakh Som is an Indian American trans femme visual artist. Her graphic novel Apsara Engine was the winner of a 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ Comic. Her graphic memoir Spellbound is also a Lambda finalist.
Casey Plett is the author of A Dream of a Woman, Little Fish, and A Safe Girl to Love. She coedited Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy From Transgender Writers and has written for the New York Times and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. She is the publisher at LittlePuss Press.
Juli Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer and historian based in San Francisco.
