In honour of Transgender Awareness Week, we invite you to join us for a powerful conversation with Vivek Shraya.
When: November 11th, 2021 @ 7:00 PM
Where: TUNE IN LIVE AT 7 PM EST
Vivek Shraya is a Canadian trans artist of colour, whose multidisciplinary work brings together music, literature, visual art, theatre, and film.
In Vivek’s best-selling book, I’m Afraid of Men, she explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a girl—and [challenges] how we might “reimagine gender for the twenty-first century.”
Anytime she speaks around this day of remembrance, she chooses to focus on her personal experience vs speaking for the community. That’s what this talk covers, and it intersects with themes from I’m Afraid of Men.
Being forced into masculinity, Vivek has spent most of her life fighting for and reclaiming various parts of her femininity. Using her multi-faceted artwork—poetry, prose, and music—Vivek shares her journey to celebrating femininity, in herself, her mother, her religious up-bringing, and in pop culture, despite her early experiences of misogyny, sexism and homophobia.
In addition to inspiring audience members to celebrate their own femininity, this presentation will address the ways we are taught to think about gender, and the danger of not recognizing our complicity in the prevalence of misogyny and sexism.
Have a question for Vivek Shraya? This event will include a 20 minute Q&A and you can submit your questions when you register below. ⬇️
Borrow Vivek Shraya books from the Sheridan library. Chat or e-mail with library staff for assistance.
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