First Annual Kitsap Anarchist Book Fair
Tabling with books and zines! Timing TBD, more details to come! In so-called Bremerton, WA.
Connection | Isolation: Work In Progress Documentary Screening
I’ll be tabling at Portland Community College’s in-progress screening of G. Chesler’s documentary about the ways trans people have / continue to face the pandemic and experience Long Covid! Find me from 5-6pm before the screening starts, tabling with copies of I’m Having Top Surgery: An Illustrated Guide For You And Me and Covid is a Labor Issue!
Here’s a little bit about the film:
G. Chesler’s new documentary feature presents eight portraits of trans, postgender, and genderqueer people who share their experiences of cultivating, sustaining, and joining communities in this pandemic. These trans community creators center experiences of Asian American people facing violent racism as the pandemic began in late 2019, Black Americans rising in opposition to white supremacist police-state violence in mid 2020, and the exclusion many people who are disabled feel from a society that—despite grave and massive loss—still refuses to habitually protect itself at large.
G. Chesler’s film highlights how COVID-19 and Long COVID have impacted trans people disproportionately. This is not a new story for a community that faces violent loss, less access to health care, criminalization, and whose freedoms are legislatively restricted by transphobes forcefully. But it is one that must be heard and understood. Trans and queer people have built a culture undergirded by mutual aid. This became a model for resilience and care in the pandemic for those who listened.
Reed Zine Fest
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.
FLOOD: Artist Talk + Open Studio with Entangled Roots Press, Sheyam Ghieth, and Rimona Eskayo
Calling all aspiring agitators! Learn more about how to create your own compelling, informative, and disruptive printed media for peoples’ movements!
Portland Zine Symposium
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.
Olympia Zine Fest
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.
Southern Oregon Zine Fest
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!
Spokane Zine Fest
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.
Drawing Towards Our Autonomy: Trans Healthcare in Words and Pictures (A Comics Workshop)
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 :)
We Keep Us Healthy: Zines on Caring For Ourselves and Our Communities (Zoom Panel)
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.
Vintage Books Live! Featuring local author Rimona Eskayo! (via Zoom)
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.
Artist Talk: PSU Trans Action and Care Conference
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.
IPRC Sidewalk Sale (NEW DATE)
Outdoors, masks required. Cash, check, card, Venmo, and Cashapp accepted. Come say hi, learn more about the IPRC, and buy a book!
Portland Zine Symposium
I’m honored to be accepted into this year’s Portland Zine Symposium. Masks required, see their COVID safety policies here. Cash, check, card, Venmo, and Cashapp accepted. Come buy a book and check out the work of some of my amazing peers!
Sidewalk Sale at the IPRC (POSTPONED)
Outdoors, masks required. Cash, check, card, Venmo, and Cashapp accepted. Come say hi, learn more about the IPRC, and buy a book!
*Postponed due to heat and smoke. Read more here.