Our new season celebrating living writers’ new work, starts off with a community parade for one of our influences- the great French lesbian philosopher, filmmaker and novelist, Monique Wittig (1935-2003), and especially her work THE STRAIGHT MIND.

Excerpts read by:
Zaina Arafat, Harriet Clark, Cat Fitzpatrick, Gayatri Gopinath, Rachel Levitsky, Claudia Rankine, Giada Scodellaro, Parul Sehgal, Bina Shariff, Pamela Sneed, Sara Jane Stoner, Jeanne Thornton.

Co-curated and presented by William M. Burton – assistant professor of French at UC Berkeley, author The End of Sex: Science and the Social Contract in Monique Wittig and Jean-Jacques Rousseau due from Fordham University Press in summer 2027 and Lazz Kinnamon – scholar of Gender and Sexuality Studies who currently teaches at the University of Arizona.