Although transgender people have existed in world cultures from time immemorial, what is new today is the way trans and nonbinary folx are languaging themselves into being. In this panel, trans and nonbinary poets of different ages discuss how their access to broader language for their gender and sexual expression comes through their and others’ poetry.
Subhaga Crystal Bacon is a nonbinary, transmasc queer elder with multiple publications including her newest book,
Transitory, which brings greater awareness to the death and mistreatment of trans folk.
Tennison Black is a queer transmasc nonbinary writer whose poetry, as seen in their multi-award-winning book,
Survival Strategies, focuses on defiance and displacement via the body politic. Newer to the writing community are writers
Juno Williams,
Gwendolyn Owens, and
Fig DePaolo, all queer Spokane writers who contribute to the larger creative conversation through fiction and poetry, adding surprising elements of their personal life as well as the genre they specialize in. This intergenerational panel means to emphasize how, especially at this juncture in history, intersectional community is the key to bolstering one another and our work. Purchase the author's books
via Auntie's Bookstore. *Note that a Book Fair Pass is required which is $25+fees and covers entry for all 12+ events at the Montvale Event Center along with entry into the Book Fair. You will be able to come and go all day with this ticket.
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