Treena Orchard Book Launch (Sticky, Sexy, Sad: Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating Apps)
Schedule
Fri Jun 07 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm
Location
McNally Robinson Booksellers | Winnipeg, MB
Join Treena Orchard for the Winnipeg launch of Sticky, Sexy, Sad: Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating Apps (AEVO / University of Toronto Press). Featuring a conversation hosted by Mark Morris, followed by a book signing.
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781487549305/treena-orchard/sticky-sexy-sad
The event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/rupIpESPBjk
Lifelong luddite Treena Orchard was a newly sober woman coming off a much-needed break from relationships, reluctantly taking the digital plunge by downloading a dating app. Instead of the fun, easy experiences advertised on swiping platforms, she discovered endless upkeep, ghosting, fleeting moments of sexual connection, and a steady flow of misogyny.
In Sticky, Sexy, Sad, Orchard uses her skills as both an anthropologist who studies sexuality and a sex-positive feminist to explore what it feels like to want love while also resisting the addictive pull of platforms designed to make us swipe-dependent. Revealing how dating apps are powerful social and sexual technologies that are radically transforming sexuality, relationships, and how we think about ourselves, this remarkable book cracks the code of modern romance. Told with humor and vulnerability, Sticky, Sexy, Sad is a riveting and inspiring guide to staying true to ourselves amid the digitization of love in the twenty-first century.
Treena Orchard is an anthropologist and associate professor in the School of Health Studies at Western University. She researches and engages in activist debates about sexuality, gender, and health among diverse cultural and digital communities. Deeply committed to public scholarship, she regularly writes for and is featured in leading online publications, including Cosmopolitan, Men’s Health, and The Conversation.
Where is it happening?
McNally Robinson Booksellers, Source, 1120 Grant Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3M, Canada,Winnipeg, Manitoba