S242. Queering Masculinities

Liberty Salon I, J, & K, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Four
Saturday, February 11, 2017
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm

 

This cross-genre panel—comprised of writers who identify, previously identified, or live(d) as male—considers how we, as trans folk, gender nonconforming individuals, and/or cis men have experienced and challenged our relationships to masculinity. To explore how these experiences (re)shape and complicate our writing both in terms of form and subject, each panelist reads some pertinent work and comments on the roles their (dis)affiliations with masculinity played in shaping it.


Participants

Moderator:

Charlie Bondhus’s second poetry book, All the Heat We Could Carry, won the 2013 Main Street Rag Award and the 2014 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. His work appears in Poetry, Columbia Journal, Missouri Review, and others. He is the poetry editor at The Good Men Project (goodmenproject.com).

Jarrett Neal's fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in the Gay and Lesbian Review, Chelsea Station, the Good Men Project, and other publications. His first book, What Color Is Your Hoodie?: Essays on Black Gay Identity is a 2016 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. 

CJ Southworth received his PhD in creative writing from SUNY Binghamton in 2016. He is a tenured assistant professor in the English department at SUNY Jefferson Community College, as well as the owner and Executive Editor of Jane's Boy Press. His most recent book is And the Moon Is Full Tonight.

Eli Clare

Christopher Soto

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