Name: ZINE LAUNCH! her trans (a)genda by olive (bly(th))
Start: 2024-10-12T18:00:00+13:00
End: 2024-10-12T19:30:00+13:00
Location: Bedlam & Squalor

ZINE LAUNCH! her trans (a)genda by olive (bly(th))

Join 5ever for an evening of spoken word accompanied by jazz drums, and the launch of a zine by emerging creative olive (blyt(th)).
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Tickets $15 online or on the door and includes zine!
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/her-trans-agenda-zine-launch-tickets-1038467392927
If cost is a barrier, we are also have unwaged entry for free :)
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Unifying multidisciplinary practises of poetry, music, and illustration, her trans (a)genda is an affirmation of transness in picture-book form. Celebrating and exploring the links between tonality and trans-feminine identity, the piece endeavours to imagine (be)coming, (trans)formation, and free vaginas in vending machines with an earnest air of silliness and willing pretension.

Experience an improvisatory, exploratory, experimental hour of poetry at Bedlam and Squalor, presented by olive (bly(th)), Dillon Butcher, and Alex Cherian. Ticket price includes a copy of her trans (a)genda.

“her trans (a)genda is the sacrifice / of ex and why / chromosomes / to arteries pumping blue blood and shed identities / to frozen sperm / to party dresses, orange blush, and lost lipstick caps…”

olive (bly(th)) is a circular primate, primarily based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara... she has a parasocial relationship with Ella Fitzgerald, plays the piano, writes poetry, paints, and ponders... she is currently studying philosophy at Te Herenga Waka and her poetry has previously been published in bad apple.

Dillon Butcher is a musician from Pōneke who specialises in various percussive rhythms played on the drum set. Her favourite drummers are Tony Williams and Zach Hill, and her favourite beverage is chocolate milk.

Alex Cherian (she/they) is a filmmaker, writer, and girltwink extraordinaire from Te-Whanganui-a-Tara. She is a founding member of the queer filmmaking collective The New New, has written for and edited issues of Salient, and been published in bad apple.