Queer Trans Book Event: Calling my Deadname Home

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To celebrate Transgender Day of Remembrance, join us for the publication of Calling My Deadname Home: The Trans Bear Diaries by Avi Ben-Zeev, senior lecturer in psychology at the School of Social Sciences and Professions.

In this extraordinarily compelling trans memoir, Avi, a bearish trans man and Psychology Professor, navigates sex and dating in a phallic-centric universe of men who love men. But something is missing. To become the man he aspires to be, he needs to reconnect with Talia, his hyper-feminine straight "female" past, and invite her back in. This memoir explores what it means to come home to oneself with brutal honesty, humour, and self-compassion.

About the author:

Avi Ben-Zeev is a queer, trans man, high school failure, and Yale PhD. As a writer, psychologist, and immigrant, he explores the challenges and freedoms of journeying towards belonging and home. Avi won the 2024 London Independent Story Prize (LISP) in flash fiction and the 2023 Short Story Prize in the UK’s first transgender writing competition. His writing was shortlisted and highly commended by the 2023 Oxford Flash Fiction Prize, his co-edited anthology, Trans Homo, was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, and his literary memoir, Calling My Deadname Home, will be released by Muswell Press in November 2024. Find out more at www.avibenzeev.com

This event will take place on Holloway campus, room GC1-08.

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Event Venue

GC1-08, London Metropolitan University, 166-220 Holloway Road, London, United Kingdom