Shon Faye & Torrey Peters

Shon and Torrey will be in conversation with journalist and author of Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture, Amelia Abraham.

Shon Faye, author of the acclaimed bestseller The Transgender Issue, felt that growing up, love was not for her. Not just romantic love: the secret fear of her own unworthiness penetrated every aspect and corner of her life. But, as she confronted her damaging ideas about love and lovelessness, she came to realize that this sense of exclusion is symptomatic of a much larger problem in our culture. In her new book, Love in Exile, Shon argues that love is as much a collective question as a personal one.

Moving into fiction, Torrey Peters, author of the outstanding Detransition, Baby, presents her much anticipated new book, Stag Dance, a quartet of tales exploring the rough edges of desire, described as acidly funny, boldly inventive and breath taking in scope, a vivid celebration of queer and trans lives across ages and locations.