🌈 Join us for a special September edition of SMYRC’s monthly Trans Support Group for an exclusive Author Talk with artist and author Rimona Eskayo, the mind behind "I'm Having Top Surgery: An Illustrated Guide For You And Me."

Wednesday, September 18th from 4PM-6PM at 1220 SW Columbia St. 📖✨ Light snacks provided! MASKS REQUIRED AND PROVIDED. Air purifiers will be running throughout the event.

Come find me at Antibinary’s TRⒶNS Makers Market at Symbiop Garden Shop:
July 27 11am-4pm, MASKS REQUIRED.

I’ll be vending alongside 20+ other local artists/makers and they’ll also have mutual aid tables and arts and crafts activities! See you there?

Tabling with books and zines! Timing TBD, more details to come! In so-called Bremerton, WA.

I’ll be tabling at the first-ever Reed Zine Fest! Come stop by, check out some of my new work, and buy a book! Masks are required.

Learn more about the event and keynote speaker here.

I’m tabling again this year at the Portland Zine Symposium at Portland State University’s Smith Memorial Student Union (in the ballroom, take the elevator!) Wear a mask! I’ll have books, zines, posters, stickers, and a resource library for you to browse! See you there?

Masks are not required at PSU so organizers can’t list the event as “masks required,” but they are advertising the event as masks “heavily encouraged” and will have masks available. They’ve promised more information on air filtration/ventilation in the coming weeks.

I’ll be slinging zines (and hopefully books!) at this year’s Olympia Zine Fest in Olympia, WA! Come find me!

The fest is outdoors! Masks are not required but please wear one anyways! Learn more about the OZF here. Fest promo image by Defectivepudding.

I’ll be tabling all day at the first-ever Southern Oregon Zine Fest! Come stop by and say hi and buy a book! They’ll also have free workshops! Masks are required, yay!

I’ll be tabling all day at the Spokane Zine Fest! Come stop by and say hi and buy a book! They’ll also have free workshops running all day, which look pretty cool. Masks are not required as far as I know, but please do wear a mask.

Join me at the IPRC this Saturday April 22nd from 2-3:30 pm for Drawing Towards Our Autonomy: Trans Healthcare in Words and Pictures (A Comics Workshop).

I’ll guide participants through the current state of trans healthcare (through comics!) and talk about the possibilities of comics and independent publishing to address gaps of access and information. Then we’ll draw together! Participants will get a chance to create comics of their own and take home a workbook zine filled with their creations! (Workbook featured in event image.)

This workshop is FREE (or sliding scale if you’d like to donate to the IPRC!) and for trans folks only, nonbinary people included! No drawing/artistic experience required. Register here. *Masks and proof of vax required!*

The space is ADA accessible, but please note that the space has a sometimes-loud skate park on the floor above the classroom! I encourage earplugs if you are also someone with sensory sensitivities :)

In this digital panel, I’ll be joining other zinemakers who create work to share inspiring and educational resources with their communities. Each panelist in this conversation celebrates the power of zines as tools to empower their respective communities by sharing information, affirmation and personal narratives of healing!

Advance registration is required. Hosted by the Santa Rosa Zine Festa and the Sonoma County Library. Find more information here.

Every week, Vancouver’s indie new and used bookstore, Vintage Books, hosts a short talk and Q and A with some of their favorite authors! On Tuesday, April 4th I’ll be joining them to talk about I’m Having Top Surgery: An Illustrated Guide For You and Me. I’m super excited to share more about the book with all of you!

Their weekly talk, Vintage Books Live! is hosted via Zoom and will be available afterwards on YouTube. Find the Zoom link here and their archive of talks on YouTube here.

Join me at PSU’s Queer Resource Center to learn more about my creative practice and my new book, I’m Having Top Surgery: An Illustrated Guide For You And Me. I’ll talk about the basics of top surgery and the role that artists, designers, and storytellers can play in making these kinds of gender-affirming care more broadly available and accessible!

PSU technically doesn’t require masking, so when you enter the building you may encounter unmasked people, but the QRC practices a culture of masking (the workshop I led last week was entirely masked). The QRC has KN95s and free rapid tests available for anyone who needs them, too!

The QRC is also offering a drop-in space and altar for folks to gather and be in community this week to grieve the queer and trans folks attacked at Club Q in Colorado Springs. This space is for us, so come as you are.