The Kármán Line Book Launch

Join us at The Tamarind Institute on Thursday, Nov. 7th, 5:00pm, for the exciting launch of The Kármán Line, by University of New Mexico faculty member, Daisy Atterbury.

Featuring responsive readings by Naima Yael Tokunow, Jennifer Denetdale, Lucy Lippard, and Francisco Gallarte.

Described as "a new cosmology" (Lucy Lippard) and "a cerebral altar to the desert" (Raquel Gutiérrez), The Kármán Line is a hybrid-genre book that investigates queer life and fantasies of space and place with an interest in unraveling colonial narratives in the American Southwest. Named for the mathematical and juridical boundary that divides Earth from outer space, the Kármán line describes the altitude at which outer space begins and national airspace ends, or where the body in flight achieves orbit.

Daisy Atterbury, Ph.D., holds a full-time lectureship in the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program and the Department of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and recently curated the Living Room Series for Poetry at the Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe.

This event is sponsored by the University of New Mexico's Department of American Studies, Program of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Feminist Research Institute.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Tamarind Institute, 2500 Central SE, entrance on Stanford, 2500 Central Avenue Southeast, Albuquerque, United States