Join us for the Toronto launch of Cavar’s Differential Diagnosis, with Twoey Gray!About this Event
Drawing from queer, trans, disabled, and Mad poetic traditions, Differential Diagnosis introduces a deeply entangled transMad approach, investigating ways of knowing, loving, and living not legible to the normative eye. This collection challenges the architecture of institutional psychiatry and its popular “wellness” analogues, offering instead a counternarrative of forced institutionalization, disorderly embodiment, and transMad self-determination.
At once jarring and joyful, Differential Diagnosis interrogates psychiatric power and locates capacities for disabled and/or transMad resistance in the oblique, the speculative, and the “nonsensical.” Cavar’s inventive full-length debut defamiliarizes cis, sane, abled existence through linguistic play and speculative imagery, offering Madness not only as poetic content, but also as craft technique and, ultimately, as a new way of being in the normative world.
CAVAR is the author of the novel Failure to Comply and editor in chief of manywor(l)ds. Their work can be found in Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Split Lip Magazine, and elsewhere. Cavar holds a PhD in cultural studies from the University of California, Davis.
Twoey Gray is a zinester, arts educator, hyperprude, and poet lady. She is the author of several works, including Not Home: True Stories From Abandoned Places, an essay collection about the power of trespassing. Twoey is the co-editor of PRUDEmag, a zine for asexuals, relationship anarchists, celibates, and all others resisting sex-necessarism. In 2022, she completed a 3000 kilometre bicycle journey from Toronto to Halifax while writing a poetry collection about bicycle magic. Twoey's work has been featured in Briarpatch Magazine, CBC Arts, Slamfind, and on the television series "The Big Sex Talk".
Event Venue
Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto, Canada
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