September 14th
7pm
Join us for the third (and final) (for now) installment of the Sapphic Summer series at McNally Jackson Seaport!
This month's event will be centered around transitions—from personal transitional relationships to sapphic identity and community, to the evolution of the sapphic literary landscape across decades. Authors will read from their work and speak to topics such as their shifting understanding of their writing and identities over time, the historical and present-day connections between lesbian and trans communities and spaces, literature that bridges the gap and complicates identity categories, and how language shapes our understanding of self.
We recommend that guests wear masks on the night.
Chase Berggrun is a trans woman poet and the author of R E D (Birds, LLC, 2018). Her poems and essays have appeared in The Nation, American Poetry Review, Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. She lives and works in New York City.
Diana Cage was formerly an award-winning sex self-help author, lesbian pornographer, and host of a ridiculously bombastic talk show on SiriusXM. Now she's a PhD student working at the intersection of performance studies, trans health, and medicine. Her current writing explores the work that transqueer art and artists do to undermine healthcare bans and other forms of gendered and racialized state violence.
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