In this session, writer D Mortimer and artist Jessie Mclaughlin will host a discussion on the 2020 novel The Virosexuals by Orion J. Facey and its relation to transnormativity. Facey’s novel imagines how the individuated body might be deserted in favour of the survival of the body politic. The workshop will look at the place of crip theory in dismantling capitalism's tendency to cannibalise identitarian movements. Informal session, no prior reading/knowledge of the text required.
While this event is free, please sign up to avoid disappointment!
This is part of the Sticky Fingers Publishing Fair 2nd Ed. programme. Find out more about the fair, including the venue access info, here.
About the facilitators
D Mortimer is a writer and artist from London interested in the crip unknown. Their first book, Last Night a Beef Jerk Saved My Life was published by Pilot Press in 2021. Their monograph Speed Glum Hero, which traces the arc of a breakdown, was published by Sticky Fingers Publishing in September 2024.
jessie mclaughlin is an artist, writer and learning curator. raised in north london, they are currently based between london and stockholm, sweden. their work connects grief, sex, formal/ informal education and educational practices, language, storytelling and, more recently, they have been exploring madness. they believe in a FREE PALESTINE.
About Sticky Fingers Publishing
Sticky Fingers Publishing is an intra-dependant press based in South East London, run by Kaiya Waerea and Sophie Paul. We are a feminist, queer, disabled-led publisher producing experimental non-fiction at the intersection of academia, visual culture, art, design and performance. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with any questions!
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