Housmans are delighted to invite you to an evening with Toshio Meronek and Eric A. Stanley. Toshio, whose recent biography of Stonewall veteran Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, ‘Miss Major Speaks’, was called ‘extraordinary’ by Angela Davis, will be joined by Eric A. Stanley, author of the radical new Trans/Queer analysis ‘Atmospheres of Violence.’ The two will discuss their recent projects, the intersections of their research and activism, will be reading from ‘Miss Major Speaks’ and ‘Atmospheres of Violence’ and taking questions from the audience.

Toshio Meronek writes about housing and queer politics in San Francisco, where they produce the podcast Sad Francisco (http://sadfrancis.com). Their new book Miss Major Speaks is a collaboration with Black trans activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, and their works also features in outlets such as Al Jazeera, The Nation, and Truthout

Eric A. Stanley is the author of Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable and an editor of Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex and Trap Door. They currently teach in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley and organize in the Bay Area.

At Housmans we work to make our events as accessible as possible. Tickets are available on a sliding scale of £2-8. If you are unwaged, or unable to afford a ticket for any other reason, please email us at shop@housmans.com so that we can put a free ticket aside for you. This event will also be filmed and available on youtube.