Last week Sister Spit, the legendary queer feminist literary collective, packed the Annex of the Hammer Museum for a rousing program of readings and recitations. The night was hosted by Virgie Tovar, who did a hilarious mock TED talk about the dangers of diet culture. Kate Schatz and Miriam Stahl Klein, the author and illustrator of Rad American Women A-Z, discussed their “explosive” feminist children’s book. Some of the artwork from the book can be seen above.
Video artist Zackary Drucker read an unpublished short story about a rich, older transgender woman coping with the current “schism” in American transgender experience, in honor of International Trans* Visibility Day. Special guest Francesca Lia Block, best known for her young adult novels, read a series of poems titled “How to Fall in Love” that grew out of an email exchange between a friend. Myriam Gurba, Nikki Darling, and Thomas Page McBee each read poems that were personal and empowering, erotic and hilarious.
