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Thursday, March 31, 2022
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Grace Lavery - Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering PenisFAB2.43The Social Theory Centre and the Centre for Critical Legal Studies are pleased to host Grace Lavery for a reading of her new memoir , followed by discussion with Cath Lambert.
The event will take place on Thursday, March 31st from 2-4pm (FAB2.43)
About Please Miss:
A memoir of gender transition and recovery from addiction, a dance across genres, a ripping-up of the rulebook, Please Miss is unlike anything you鈥檝e ever read before. Grace Lavery is a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and a 100 per cent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster. How could her story be straightforward when she is anything but? The telling of her tale is kaleidoscopic, wild and audacious: Grace performs in a David Lynch remake of Sunset Boulevard and is reprogrammed as a 1960s femmebot; she is targeted with anonymous letters from a mysterious cabal of clowns; she writes a socialist manifesto disguised as a porn parody of QI (or is it vice versa?). As Grace fumbles toward a new trans identity, she tries on dozens of different voices, creating a coat of many colours. The result is dazzling, unique and unforgettable. Startlingly funny and ruthlessly smart, Please Miss gives us what we came for, then slaps us in the face and orders us to come again.
Grace Lavery is a writer, editor, and academic living in Brooklyn, NY. As , her research explores the history and theory of aesthetics and interpretation, with particular interests in psychoanalysis, literary realism, and queer and trans cultures. Cath Lambert is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of 糖心TVLink opens in a new window. Cath's work includes projects and adventures in research, teaching, art, writing, performance, serious play and collaborations of different kinds. She works in the areas of gender and sexuality, critical and participatory pedagogies, queer theory, live sociology and queer kinship. She collaborates with creative practioners including queer live art organisation and dance theatre company . Her book was published by Routledge in 2018. |