LECTURES & LIBATIONS - Monstrous Women, Heroic Men

A live lecture series produced by Art Crush LA, designed to bring compelling thinkers into a social, accessible, and elevated environment.
📍Location: Exact address shared in the confirmation email

🎤 Speaker: Tarra Stevenson (TikTok @GirlsSchoolBooks)

📚 Lecture: Monstrous Women, Heroic Men: Misogyny, Translation, and the Women of The Odyssey

The Odyssey is a foundational text of Western literature and culture, and as such, still casts a long shadow, 2700 years later. Different translations depict the many female monsters differently, and while individually they often don't play a huge role in Odysseus's journey home, collectively they reveal cultural norms that may persist today. Together, using several translations, let's examine the female monsters in The Odyssey and how some translations have made monsters of women where there aren't any at all.

Tarra Stevenson is the bestselling Substack author of Heavy Meta with her globally loved book club. She writes fairy tales, horror, and academic analysis, all based around her master’s thesis on conceptual metaphor. She has poetry and short stories published in Vinyl, Shirley Magazine, the LA Miscellany, Writer's Resist, and Lit Angels. She was the Book Reviews editor for The Coachella Review and had a column there titled “Hard to Swallow,” which she is currently transforming into an (anti) cookbook. She’s currently on the Board of the Secondary School Writing Center Association and the International Writing Center Association and teaches at an all-girls school in Pasadena. Tarra can be found on Substack at Heavy Meta and on TikTok @GirlsSchoolBooks. She is always working on a novel.

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Agenda

7:00 PM – Doors open: arrive early to find a seat & grab a drink

7:25 PM – Host introduction

7:30 PM – Lecture begins

8:10 PM – Audience Q&A

8:30 PM – Mingle with the speaker & fellow guests. Grab another round!

9:00 PM – 👋🏼