Come join me on tour! These talks are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
Before Gender Book Tour + Signings
Fall 2025 Locations
Oct 6
18:30
London, UK
Waterstones Gower St. with Paula Akpan
Sliding scale tickets available here
Oct 7
19:00
Nottingham, UK
Five Leaves Books
£5 tickets here
Oct 8
18:30
Manchester, UK
Blackwell’s Manchester with Eden Foxon
University of Manchester
£3 tickets here
Oct 9
19:00
Edinburgh, UK
Lighthouse Books with Sasha de Buyl
Sliding scale tickets here
Oct 10
19:00
Leeds, UK
The Bookish Type with Kit Heyam
Sliding scale tickets here
Oct 11
15:00
Oxford, UK
Blackwell’s Broad Street with Mara Gold
£6 tickets here
Oct 12
19:00
London, UK
Common Press x London School of Economics with SM Rodriguez
Sliding scale tickets here
Oct 15
19:30
Berlin, DE
Sonntags-Club
Free and open to the public (no tickets needed)
Oct 21
19:00
Prague, CZ
Globe Bookstore & Café
Tickets available soon
More venues, dates, and details will be provided in late fall 2025:
New York, NY
Boston, MA
Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco, CA
Oakland, CA
San Juan, PR
Washington, DC
New Haven, CT
Baltimore, MD
…and many more!
More Talks, Discussions, and Panels
Oct 16
8 am EST
Virtual
Trans Youth: Past and Present (opening keynote speech)
TransPride YOUniting Health & Wellness Conference
Free Whova tickets for community members here
Oct 16
1 pm EST
Virgual/University Park, PA
Penn State University
Archives Against Erasure: The NYC Trans Archives
With the New York City Trans Archives
Free Zoom tickets here
Oct 24
New York, NY
4:00 – 5:15 pm
CUNY Grad Center, C Concourse 202
Trans Lesbian Representations: A T4T Politics, History, and Philosophy (panel)
With SM Rodriguez (Moderator), Euryale Cliché-Laroche, and L’or Malhotra-Gaudet
Free for Lesbian Lives Conference attendees (sold out – waitlist tickets here)
Nov 15
8:30 am – 9:45 am AST
San Juan, PR
Puerto Rico Convention Center 104A
National Women’s Studies Association Conference
Making Trans History: Resisting Censorship, Preserving Culture, and Building Radical Archives (roundtable)
With Elvis Bakaitis, Gabriel San Emeterio, and Red Washburn
Free for NWSA attendees
Nov 15
11:30 am – 12:45 pm AST
San Juan, PR
Puerto Rico Convention Center 104A
National Women’s Studies Association Conference
“From Trans Activist to MAGA”: Making Sense of the Transgender Far-Right
Gender, Sexuality, and the Far Right: Co-optation, Contradictions, and Resistance (panel)
With Shoumik Bhattacharya, Kat Fuller, Faith Lazar (chair), and Jordan Lord
Free for NWSA attendees
Nov 20
8:00 am – 9:30 am AST
San Juan, PR
Puerto Rico Convention Center 103A
American Studies Association Conference
New Directions in Trans Archiving (roundtable)
With Elvis Bakaitis, Gabriel San Emeterio, and Red Washburn
Free for ASA attendees
Nov 22
1:15 pm – 2:45 pm AST
San Juan, PR
Puerto Rico Convention Center 103A
American Studies Association Conference
The Far-Right Among Us: Minoritized Groups, Inclusive Fascism, and the Politics of Precarity (panel)
With Blu Buchanan, Kat Fuller, Faith Lazar, and Joseph Lowndes
Free for ASA attendees
More
Past talks (2025)
Spring 2025:
March 6
1 pm EST
New Haven, CT
Yale University
Humanities Quadrangle Building – Room 206
Book talk: “Belonging Through Exclusion: Understanding the Transgender Far-Right”
May 15
6 pm CST
Minneapolis, MN
Milkweed Books
“Found Ancestry” talk with Danez Smith, K. Iver, And Dorothy Chan
RSVPs encouraged
May 27
7 pm EST
Burlington, VT
Phoenix Books with Ace Lehner
Tickets are available here
May 29
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST
New York, NY
Leslie-Lohman Museum with Yves Cao
Launch Party 🥳
Free tickets here
June 3
7 pm EST
Providence, RI with Elijah Edelman
Riffraff Books
More information
June 8, 2025
6 pm EST
Baltimore, MD
Area 405 Event Space
Trans Ancestry Artist Talk with Red Rae
More information
June 10
7 pm EST
Baltimore, MD with Rahne Alexander
Red Emma’s
Free tickets here
June 12
Brooklyn, NY with Abby Stein
Greenlight Books
Free tickets here