Name: Booking Reading and Q&A w/ Nico Lang
Start: 2026-05-31T16:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-05-31T18:00:00-05:00
Location: 4228 Boston Ave, Lubbock, TX 79413-3240, United States

$Booking Reading and Q&A w\/ Nico Lang$

Join LubbockPride in a FREE reading and Q&A by Nico Lang, a nonbinary, award-winning journalist and author. Nico will be reading from their 2024 novel American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era.
The event will include a Q&A with the author as well as a FREE GIVEAWAY of a copy of American Teenager!
From the novel:
"Media coverage tends to sensationalize the fight over how trans kids should be allowed to live, but what is incredibly rare are the voices of the people at the heart of this debate: transgender and gender nonconforming kids themselves.
For their groundbreaking new book, journalist Nico Lang spent a year traveling the country to document the lives of transgender, nonbinary, and genderfluid teens and their families. Drawing on hundreds of hours of on-the-ground interviews with them and the people in their communities, American Teenager paints a vivid portrait of what it’s actually like to grow up trans today.
From the tip of Florida’s conservative panhandle to vibrant queer communities in California, and from Texas churches to mosques in Illinois, American Teenager gives readers a window into the lives of Wyatt, Rhydian, Mykah, Clint, Ruby, Augie, Jack, and Kylie, eight teens who, despite what some lawmakers might want us to believe, are truly just kids looking for a brighter future."