[BOOK CLUB EXTRAVAGANZA] Queer Book Club: Bad Girls (Camila Sosa Villada) (EN)

Name: [BOOK CLUB EXTRAVAGANZA] Queer Book Club: Bad Girls (Camila Sosa Villada) (EN)
Start: 2024-09-18T20:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-09-18T21:30:00+02:00
Location: Munt 6, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Schedule

Wed Sep 18 2024 at 08:00 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Munt 6, 1000 Brussels, Belgium | Brussels, BU

A queer-facilitated discussion group reading literature that is traditionally excluded from mainstream narratives.
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Free, with registration
Part of BOOK CLUB EXTRAVAGANZA: www.facebook.com/events/369310862852556
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Queer Bookclub is a queer-facilitated discussion group dedicated to reading literature by authors whose experiences and perspectives have been traditionally excluded from mainstream narratives. With a lack of safe(r) spaces in Bxl that are not centred around night-life, the idea is to create bi-weekly meet-ups for us to gather, discuss, connect and find community.
‘Bad Girls’ by Camila Sosa Villada is a transfer author's tale about finding a community in the margins. We dive into the book's impact on each of us, and discuss its content.
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READING SESSIONS
Before this activity, we also welcome you to read in the book together during our two reading sessions at Muntpunt (Literair Salon)!
>>> Reading session 1: Wed 04.09, 18:30 - 20:30
We will discuss queerness in literature, its importance in the civil rights movement, and how throughout history, queerness has been erased from many cultural works and artforms.
>>> Reading session 2: Wed 11.09, 18:30 - 20:30
We come together, we read together (this time with cookies and a hot coco in our hands). We will meet again with our temporary community to create a reading at home feeling.
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>>>>>> About the book <<<<<<
Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman's tale about finding a community on the margins.
In Sarmiento Park, the green heart of Córdoba, a group of trans sex workers make their nightly rounds. When a cry comes from the dark, their leader, the 178-year-old Auntie Encarna, wades into the brambles to investigate and discovers a baby half dead from the cold. She quickly rallies the pack to save him, and they adopt the child into their fascinating surrogate family as they have so many other outcasts, including Camila.
Sheltered in Auntie Encarna's fabled pink house, they find a partial escape from the everyday threats of disease and violence, at the hands of clients, cops, and boyfriends. Telling their stories —of a mute young woman who transforms into a bird, of a Headless Man who fled his country's wars— as well as her own journey from a toxic home in a small, poor town, Camila traces the life of this vibrant community throughout the 90s.
Imbuing reality with the magic of a dark fairy tale, ¯‘Bad Girls’ offers an intimate, nuanced portrait of trans coming-of-age that captures a universal sense of the strangeness of our bodies. It grips and entertains us while also challenging ideas about love, sexuality, gender, and identity.