August 2nd - Before We Were Trans by Dr. Kit Heyam

If this is a topic that interests you, join us for discussion – no reading required. 

We’ll arrive together with a slow asana practice and then share snacks and conversation.

Today’s narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to account for the complex realities of many trans people’s lives.  
 
Before We Were Transilluminates the stories of people across the globe, from antiquity to the present,whose experiencesof gender havedefiedbinary categories. Blendinghistorical analysiswith sharp cultural criticism, trans historian and activist Kit Heyam offers a new, radically inclusivetrans history, chronicling expressions of trans experience that are often overlooked, like gender-nonconforming fashion and wartime stage performance. Before We Were Transtransports usfrom Renaissance Venice toseventeenth-centuryAngola, from Edo Japan toearly America, and looksto the past to uncover new horizons forpossible trans futures. 

As always, expect a slow and mostly restorative asana practice before we share snacks and discussion of the book.

Cost: $15 - $25 sliding scale

Time: Friday 6-8 p.m.

August 2nd, 2024