Join us March 14th to celebrate Jeanne Thornton's new book A/S/L in conversation with Juliet Jacques. A/S/L (an internet initialism for “age, sex, location’) is a transformational, transformative story about videogames, three queer friends, and the code(s) they learn to survive.
It is 1998; Lilith, Sash, and Abraxa are teenagers, and they are making Saga of the Sorceress, a game that will change everything, if only for the three of them. Eighteen years later, Saga of the Sorceress exists only on the scattered drives of its creators. Lilith might be the first trans woman to ever work as an Assistant Loan Underwriter at Dollarwise Investments in Brooklyn. Sash is in Brooklyn as well, working as a research assistant and part-time webcam dominatrix. Neither knows that the other is there, or that Abraxa, the third member of Invocation LLC, is just across the Hudson River, sleeping on the floor of a friend’s grandparents’ Jersey City home.
They have never met in person, and have been out of touch for years, but none have forgotten the sorceress, or her quest, still far from finished.
About the author:
Jeanne Thornton is the author of Summer Fun, The Black Emerald, and The Dream of Doctor Bantam. She is the copublisher of Instar Books and the editor, with Tara Madison Avery, of the Ignatz Award-winning We’re Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology. Her fiction has appeared in n+1, WIRED, The Evergreen Review, and more.
About the host:
Juliet Jacques is a writer and filmmaker based in London. She has published six books including Trans: A Memoir (2015) and Variations (2021) and made three short films. She teaches at the Royal College of Art and elsewhere.