Worthy of the Event with Vivian Blaxwell

A joint celebration of Trans Day of Visibility and Women's History Month.The Nashville stop on the Vivian Blaxell tour of North America.
Thought partners and Vivian Blaxell will discuss the book, Worthy of the Event. Books will be available for sale. The event is free and also open to Nashville community members. Parking for this event is available free of charge in the Wesley Place Garage (after 5p).

About Worthy of the Event:Set against a backdrop of trans life that begins with her own transition in the 1960s, Vivian Blaxell takes us on a witty and expansive sweep through history, from Australia to Japan, to Hawai’i to Mexico, to heretofore unmapped regions of the mind. In seven devastatingly intelligent parts, her essay covers a vast range in time and space — from the arson of a Japanese temple to a transformative encounter with a coral reef, from Nietzsche and Hegel to Indigenous metaphysics, from a perplexing relationship with a beautiful man to the unknowable minds of animals. Fleshy and philosophical, searching and exalted, utterly distinctive and assured, Worthy of the Event belatedly establishes Vivian Blaxell as one of the major writers of her generation.

Sponsored by Vanderbilt University's K.C. Potter Center for LGBTQI Life | Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality| Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center

About Vivian Blaxell

Vivian Blaxell grew up in rural Australia and co-founded Tiresias House, Australia’s first shelter and resource centre for and by trans people. Her essay "Nuclear Cats" was shortlisted for the 2021 Melbourne Prize for Literature. She lives in Naarm/Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Host or Publisher Vanderbilt Divinity School