Special Topics in Being a Human with S. Bear Bergman

Name: Special Topics in Being a Human with S. Bear Bergman
Start: 2024-11-17T16:00:00-05:00
Location: 3032 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Minnesota 55406

Schedule

Sun Nov 17 2024 at 04:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

3032 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Minnesota 55406 | Minneapolis, MN

Please join Moon Palace Books and author S. Bear Bergman on Sunday, November 17th at 3:00pm for a discussion of Special Topics in Being a Human.
**This is an in-person event. Masks are required in store.**
As an author, educator, and public speaker, S. Bear Bergman has documented his experience as, among other things, a trans parent, with wit and aplomb. He also writes the advice column "Asking Bear," in which he answers crucial questions about how best to make our collective way through the world.
Featuring disarming illustrations by Saul Freedman-Lawson, Special Topics in Being a Human elaborates on "Asking Bear"'s premise: a gentle, witty, and insightful book of practical advice for the modern age. It offers Dad advice and Jewish bubbe wisdom, all filtered through a queer lens, to help you navigate some of the complexities of life - from how to make big decisions or make a good apology, to how to get someone's new name and pronouns right as quickly as possible, to how to gracefully navigate a breakup. With warmth and candor, Special Topics in Being a Human calls out social inequities and injustices in traditional advice-giving, validates your feelings, asks a lot of questions, and tries to help you be your best possible self with kindness, compassion, and humour.
S. Bear Bergman is an author, storyteller, educator, and the founder and publisher of children's book press Flamingo Rampant, which makes feminist, culturally diverse children's picture books celebrating LGBT2Q+ kids and families. He writes creative non-fiction for grown-ups, fiction for children, and the advice column "Asking Bear" and is the co-editor (with Kate Bornstein) of Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation (2010) and the author of Special Topics in Being a Human (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2021). Their other books include The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You and Blood, Marriage, Wine & Glitter.