About this Event
M. K. Thekkumkattil, author of "The Sexuality of Care: On Nursing, Kink, and a Future Without Hospitals," will read from their book and be joined by author Tessa Hulls for a conversation and book signing at Ruckus Room. Local radical bookseller, Red Current Distro, will be on-site to sell books.
RSVP by September 28 to ensure you get your book(s) at the event!
Masks required. ADA accessible event space and bathroom available. Ramp available for direct access to the event space, otherwise the entrance through lobby is also wheelchair accessible. Most seating is metal folding chairs. All gender bathrooms on site. Contact [email protected] for any access requests, needs, or questions.
The Sexuality of Care: On Nursing, Kink, and a Future Without Hospitals
A unique, conversation-starting essay collection about critical care work, kink practices, and how one might transform the other.
M. K. Thekkumkattil is an ICU nurse looking for ways to show real care for their patients in the age of COVID. When not working in critical care, they struggle with chronic illness, endure controlling partners, and write letters to former patients that wrestle with the violence of professional nursing. At the same time, their slow gender awakening and the new, kink-informed relationships that accompany it begin to shape a way out of the brutalities the hospital system requires.
In essays that blend memoir and manifesto, The Sexuality of Care builds a convincing new argument for how the present-day medical system fails both its patients and its laboring nurses, as well as how the vision of radical consent found in queer kink practices lets us imagine a future where hospitals are abolished, yet care thrives.
Tessa Hulls is an artist, writer, and adventurer who is equally likely to disappear into the wilderness or a research library. Her debut graphic memoir, Feeding Ghosts, won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, Eisner Award, Anisfield-Wolf Award, Washington State Book Award, and others. She’s interested in being a conduit rather than a focus, and is quietly working on something very large about libraries. She can usually be found—or deliberately not found—in Juneau, Alaska, where she is beloved by many dogs.
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2612 Eagle St, 2612 Eagle Street, Anchorage, United States
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