About this Event
Writer and photographer Victoria Scott, author of We Deserve This: A Transfeminine Automotive Lookbook, returns to the store for her new book Pollination. She'll be joined by fellow writer Aster Olsen, creator of TRANSplants Zine.
Registration is not required, but helps us anticipate audience size.
Copies of Pollination will be available for purchase at the event.
Pollination is an act of radical preservation. In an era of rising authoritarianism and fascism, trans people’s lives are under increasing threat. In response, journalist and photographer Victoria Scott has created a graphic time capsule for future queer generations. Here she documents her community beyond the protest, capturing a living, breathing culture. She blends the candid and the posed, the intimate and the public — demonstrating the beautiful reality of her world and ours.
Each image is printed using slide film, with no digital alterations. In this way, Scott creates a deliberate artifact of truth to be treasured and protected.
Victoria Scott is an author (most recently of Pollination, 2026, Antithesis Press, and We Deserve This, 2024, Carrera Media) and photographer. She works for TRACTION's Project Open Arms helping trans refugees fleeing the most hostile corners of America for safer pastures. She also hosts the automotive industry news and analysis podcast Tran Girlismo with her friend Jordan Hoffstetter. In her free time, she enjoys tinkering with her old Jeep and going hiking. Victoria lives in the heart of Seattle with her wife and their cat, Burt.
Aster Olsen is a southern biologist and trans writer living in Seattle. She is the author of the trans hypno cyberpunk novella, Performance Review. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Autostraddle, Imposter Review, Smoke and Mold, anthologies by Lilac Peril, and elsewhere. She is the creator and editor of TRANSplants Zine, a magazine series about culture, transness and place. The latest issue is Cosmo t-girl, a parody of early 2000s womanhood reimagined with a modern trans lens. Find more of her writing at www.asterolsen.com, and find transplants zine at www.transplantszine.org.
Event venue & nearby stays
The Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, United States
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