Two-Day “Trigger” Showcase Thursday and Today
This was the message re. TRIGGER WARNINGS (cf. November 18, October 28) in Wednesday’s email. Readers: The Thursday and Friday events are showcasing the pieces in the book, so that’s what you should plan to read. The time listings for readers are approx. We’ve tried to alter long readings with shorter ones. And I’ve tried to put people with sensitive time schedules in set one. For the longer pieces (prefaced by “20″), do try to keep a 20 min max. since the evening will be long. Ortet will begin setting up at 4:30. I’m getting a ride and help with bringing books, so I’ll be there closer to 5:30. Kalynn and I began working on this the day after Trump was elected in 2015. So it’s been a long haul and I’m so grateful to all of you for hanging in there, to Tony Brewer for helping us find a publisher and for producing the book, to Ortet for always being there, and to Chris Rall, Pixie, and BackSpace for giving us a place to do a truly public reading (the reading at the Library will be behind closed doors.
And Trigger Warnings is the MeToo anthology, edited by Joan Hawkins and Kalynn Brower — containing work by Bloomington authors.
That was at the Backspace Gallery downtown. But that wasn’t all. Six people read then, interspersed by performances by the musical group ORTET. And then more were scheduled the following afternoon, today, in the Monroe County Library auditorium, of whom the second was me with the story “La Fatale,” of events happening after those of the novel DRACULA concerning Mina Harker who now calls herself Guillemette, having fled to France,and who — unlike in the novel — has become a vampire. And when Parisian street toughs attacked her and her friends. . . .
Well, to see for yourself you’ll have to read the book which will also be introduced/signed by editor/authors Hawkins and Brower at Morgenstern Books tomorrow, Saturday, from noon to 2 p.m. (but due to forecasted sub-freezing weather I’ll most likely miss myself — sorry). And of which (the book) the Amazon blurb begins this way: We began this volume in 2017, shortly after Donald Trump was elected. We began working on it in response to the outrage we felt over the Access Hollywood Tape, in which Trump openly admitted that he randomly assaulted women. While previous presidential candidates’ campaigns had been derailed when sex scandals were reported by the press (Gary Hart, for example), Trump seemingly faced no consequences, even when multiple accusations of physical molestation and rape were made against him. His election and imperviousness to charges of assault seemed to signal a new step in the normalization of rape culture. . . . It was in this climate that we began soliciting stories, poems, essays and nonfiction pieces about the assault and attempted assault that is a striking aspect of so many women’s psychosexual histories. . . .
Or for more, press here.
