About this Event
Hive Mind Books, Brooklyn's traveling independent bookstore, is pleased to present writer and cultural worker KB Brookins at Starr Bar for the Bushwick launch of their new memoir, Pretty. Brookins will be joined in conversation by writer McKenzie Wark, and other local writers to be announced.
This event is free to attend, with a suggested donation of $5 to help cover costs. (That $5 can be used to purchase a book at the event.) After the reading, Brookins will sign copies of Pretty. You can pre-order a book through Eventbrite or buy a book from Hive Mind that night.
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ABOUT PRETTY
By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, Pretty is a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race. Even as it shines light on the beauty and toxicity of Black masculinity from a transgender perspective—the tropes, the presumptions—Pretty is as much a powerful and tender love letter as it is a call for change.
Informed by KB Brookins’s personal experiences growing up in Texas, those of other Black transgender masculine people, Black queer studies, and cultural criticism, Pretty is concerned with the marginalization suffered by a unique American constituency—whose condition is a world apart from that of cisgender, non-Black, and non-masculine people. Here is a memoir (a bildungsroman of sorts) about coming to terms with instantly and always being perceived as “other."
ABOUT BROOKINS
KB BROOKINS is a Black, queer, and trans writer and cultural worker from Texas. They are the author of Freedom House and How to Identify Yourself with a Wound. Brookins has poems, essays, and installation art published in Academy of American Poets, Teen Vogue, Poetry Magazine, Prizer Arts & Letters, Okayplayer, Poetry Society of America, Autostraddle, and other venues. They have earned fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN America, Equality Texas, and others.
ABOUT HIVE MIND BOOKS
Hive Mind Books is a traveling independent bookstore based in Brooklyn and Jersey City. We pop up at fairs, festivals, and local businesses with a curated selection of new, secondhand, and discounted books for readers of all ages and all genres, with a specialty in queer and trans books. Hive Mind also hosts author events throughout the area. Keep up with us on insta: @hivemindbookstore
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Starr Bar, 214 Starr Street, Brooklyn, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 28.00
