Name: Book Launch: Accept Yourself Or Die // Crossdresser
Start: 2024-07-11T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-07-11T20:30:00-04:00
Location: 329 Catherine Street, K1R5T4

$Book Launch: Accept Yourself Or Die \/\/ Crossdresser$

This event is hybrid and has in-person and virtual ticket options, and is free to attend. Must register in advance here: hhttps://venusenvy.ca/collections/workshops/products/book-launch-cross-dresser-accept-yourself-or-die-double-memoir
EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Join us for the launch of a double volume, two books in one, both by trans Ottawa-based writers!
About the book:
Imogen Reid’s Accept Yourself Or Die: From Mormon Missionary to Trans Punk travels from small-town Northern Ontario, to the Missionary Training Centre in Provo, Utah, to basement shows in Ottawa. It’s a story about staying stubbornly human in a world that wants to destroy you, and also about how weird it is going door-to-door trying to convert people to Mormonism.
Flip the book over to read:
Crossdresser: Growing Up Trans in the 1990s and 2000s, by Kat Rogue, explores what it does to a closeted trans girl to grow up saturated in the transmisogyny of 1990s pop culture and to come of age online, and how she managed to build her own relationship to femininity despite that. It argues that crossdressing, femme, and transness are more closely linked than some people think, and that Ace Ventura: Pet Detective really could have been great without all the transmisogyny.
The books are published by Sheer Spite Press back-to-back for a double gut-punch of heartfelt, angry, and funny reflections on transfemme coming of age.
Contact [email protected] for questions.