Come join us on the second to last Thursday of every month for Craft and Consciousness Raising!

Every month we will read out loud and discuss an excerpt from a different nonfiction book while we craft in community. Each session will focus on how queerness intersects with different identities and struggles, with an aim of centering collective liberation. The books will be on sale before the event, but if you don’t have a chance to read ahead of time, that is okay too! Bring a project you’re working on, or we have free craft and collage supplies available to use. We look forward to seeing you there!

Drawn from Lou Sullivan’s meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguably the first publicly gay trans man to medically transition.

Louis G. Sullivan (b. Milwaukee, 1951; d. San Francisco, 1991) was a writer, activist, typesetter, trans historian and ground breaking queer activist. Sullivan began writing his life in diaries as an adolescent and continued until his death from AIDS complications. The first publicly gay trans man to medically transition, Lou meticulously journaled his experiences (romantic, lascivious, challenging, quotidian, poetic, political). Sullivan left 8.4 cubic feet of archival material from his life and studies to the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, of which he was a founding member.