Book Launch: The New Lesbian Pulp

Join us for sips, dessert, cabaret styles, and the launch of The New Lesbian Pulp at Club Cumming!

BIOS

TRISH BENDIX is a GLAAD-nominated writer and regular contributor to the New York Times. Her book Sappho Was a Pop Star is forthcoming from St. Martin's Press in 2027.

GRACE BYRON is a writer from the Midwest based in Queens. Her writing has appeared in The Cut, Vogue, Bookforum, and other outlets. Her debut novel, Herculine, is forthcoming from Saga Press. Find her @emotrophywife.

M.J. COREY is a psychodynamic psychotherapist and author of DeKonstructing the Kardashians. Her work has been seen in The Brooklyn Rail, The New Yorker, and Vogue. She lives in Brooklyn with her cat, Baby Blue.

SARAH FONSECA is a desultory writer and sometimes-thinker.

OCTAVIA SAENZ (she/they) is an editor and cartoonist based in El Paso, TX. She creates speculative fiction and visual narratives about queer life and temporality. Octavia grew up in Puerto Rico and has a BFA in Creative Writing and Illustrationfrom Ringling College, as well as a Lambda Fellowship. Find her on Twitter and Instagram: @shrimpwonder.

ABOUT CLUB CUMMING

Club Cumming is a gay bar and nightclub in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It frequently hosts cabaret events, Broadway-style shows, dance parties and drag performances. Celebrities, especially Broadway actors, often make pop-up appearances there. The club opened in 2017 and is co-owned by actor Alan Cumming and promoter Daniel Nardicio, who founded it with the owners of the space's previous establishment.

ABOUT HIVE MIND BOOKS

Hive Mind Books is a queer bookstore and coffeeshop located at 219 Irving Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

As a coffeeshop, Hive Mind serves a wide menu of espresso and tea beverages and are here to be your work-from-home-away-from-home. WiFi and restrooms are free and laptops are welcome! Hive Mind boasts pastries, snacks, comfortable seating, and keep the music chill. Answer emails, meet up with friends, and gaze out the windows to watch the world go by on Irving Avenue.

As a bookstore, Hive Mind specializes in queer and trans books. We also maintain a curated selection of general interest books (we read widely), all new, used, and discounted.

ABOUT THE FEMINIST PRESS

The New Lesbian Pulp’s publisher was founded in 1970, The Feminist Press began as a crucial publishing component of second wave feminism, reprinting feminist classics by writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and providing much-needed texts for the developing field of women’s studies with books by Barbara Ehrenreich and Grace Paley. The Feminist Press publishes feminist literature from around the world, by best-selling authors such as Shahrnush Parsipur, Ruth Kluger, and Ama Ata Aidoo; and North American writers of diverse race and class experience, such as Paule Marshall and Rahna Reiko Rizzuto. The publisher has become the vanguard for books on contemporary feminist issues of equality and gender identity, with authors as various as Anita Hill, Vivian Bond, and Ann Jones. Learn more at feministpress.org.

Host or Publisher Sarah Fonseca