ABSOLUTE PLEASURE Book Release Party | Queer Perspectives on Rocky Horror

Join us at SubZero on Thursday October 2nd to celebrate the book release of ABSOLUTE PLEASURE: Queer Perspectives on Rocky Horror, which features work from Anchorage-based writer M.K. Thekkumkattil and cites several of our community members! This will be an evening of music, mingling, drinks, excerpt readings, and pop-up drag and burlesque performances by Sweet Rika, Dela Rosa, and Benji Wrede. If you're a fan of the cult classic film, the local Rocky Horror theatre production, queer joy, and queer perspectives, we want you there!

Since its earliest midnight showings at the Waverly Theater in New York City, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has been an underground sensation. For five decades, people around the world have dressed up and gathered in dark theaters to dance, yell, mime obscene acts, and forge connections with other queer people and weirdos.

The film shattered expectations and social norms at the time of its release. But how does its presentation of queerness—not to mention its portrayals of M**der, manipulation, consent violation, and cannibalism—hold up today? The essays in Absolute Pleasure—by queer writers including Sarah Gailey, Grace Lavery, Magdalene Visaggio, and Anchorage-based writer M.K. Thekkumkattil —explore the film's complicated legacy, along with queer and trans joy, sexuality, family, generational understandings of queerness, and what we do with our problematic faves.

Published by Feminist Press

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Buy In-Person: Books will be available at The Writer's Block Bookstore in Spenard!

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Sub Zero Bistro & Microlounge, 612 F Street, Anchorage, United States