Worthy of the Events: The Vivian Blaxell Tour of North America 2025
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On March 26 3:10-5 pm EST, join us in-person at Room 100A in the Jackman Humanities Building at 170 St. George Street, or over Zoom for a talk that will be ‘worthy of the event.’ Reserve your free ticket here.
Vivian Blaxell, author of Worthy of the Event: An Essay, is the new queer literary superstar, “a 21st Century Proust committed to TMI” (Dodie Bellamy), her book “the most provoking writing I've read in so long” (Trish Salah).
Like its author Vivian Blaxell, Worthy of the Event defies easy categorization. She is or has been a philosopher of the mind and ontologies of being, former street-based sex worker in 1960s Australia, scholar of Japanese colonialism, trans woman elder, and prolific writer. As a memoir the book takes us through these parts of her life, and into the far reaches of the Earth, space, time, and the mind. 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.
Engaging in sparkling conversation with luminaries of the transgender intelligentsia, Vivian will be all over the United States and Canada this spring, and we do not exaggerate when we say these are HISTORIC OCCURENCES! You'll probably be reminiscing about them with nostalgia and fondness on your death bed!
For this leg of her North American tour, join Vivian in conversation with renowned writer and musician Jia Qing Wilson-Yang at the University of Toronto’s Jackman Humanities Building on March 26th from 3:10-5 pm EST. If you can’t be in-person, you can also attend over Zoom! Courtesy of Another Story Bookstore, copies of Ms. Blaxell book will be on sale at the event. Reserve your free ticket here!
