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Join organizers and writers, Miss Major, Toshio Meronek, and Eric A. Stanley in conversation around their new books, Miss Major Speaks (Verso, 2023) and Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable (Duke University Press, 2021) which theorize the unending catastrophe of racialised anti-trans terror in both its new and old forms. Beyond diagnosis, participants - alongside the audience - will dream of some plans for our collective escape.

A meet & greet reception will be hosted immediately following the event.

Bios:

Miss Major is a Black, transgender activist who has fought for over fifty years for her trans/gender nonconforming community. Major is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a survivor of Dannemora Prison and Bellevue Hospital’s “queen tank.” Her global legacy of activism is rooted in her own experiences, and she continues her work to uplift transgender women of color, particularly those who have survived incarceration and police brutality.

Toshio Meronek is a writer focusing on housing and queer politics in the Bay Area, where they produce the podcast Sad Francisco.

Eric A. Stanley is the Haas Distinguished Chair in LGBT Equity and an associate professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. They are the author of Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable (Duke 2021).

Co-sponsored by Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies; Decolonizing Humanism(?) Initiative; Performing Difference and Queer & Trans Studies Working groups, Faculty Commons; UCR Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

For questions or concerns, contact: crystal.baik@ucr.edu