BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:117@sds.utoronto.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240113T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240113T193000 DTSTAMP:20231212T172450Z URL:http://sds.utoronto.ca/events/inaugural-end-of-the-line-press-book-lau nch/ SUMMARY:Inaugural End of the Line Press Book Launch DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies presents the inaugural launch of End of the Line Press - a publisher of poetry\, pros e\, and visual art monographs by trans\, non-binary\, and two-spirit artis ts. Readings by Arielle Burgdorf author of "Pretend" and Mandy Gutmann-G onzalez author of "A/An". Saturday January 13\, 6:00-7:30pm. Glad Day Boo kshop 499\, Church St.\n\nFor pre-orders go to  https://endlinepress.com /Online-Store\n\n \;\n\nA/An by Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez\n\nUsing 17th- century court records of the Salem Witch Trials as a sounding board\, A/A n mines the archives to uncover the power and violence residing within th e language of the legal system. As state-legislated violence\, witch hunts were constitutive to the colonial order\, reinforcing what was normal and what aberrant. Rather than regarding the witch hunts as historical curios ity or speculating to fill the gaps\, A/An considers the court examinati on as poetic form\, a hybrid of legal language and lyric utterance. In the se poems\, English becomes foreign to itself\, having distorted through ti me and slipped through the sieve of law\, through the inevitable erasures of matter and the ideological erasures of the archive: the gaps marked “ [illegible due to fold in paper]\,” and the silences that remain unmarke d. In a poetics of the “[…]”\, A/An engages with textual gaps as l acunae. In A/An\, poetry and archive wrestle\, shattering these legal doc uments that act as gravestones and spilling the voices caught therein.\n\n Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez\, a Chilean poet\, novelist\, translator\, and text -based artist\, is the author of the novel La Pava (Ediciones Inubicalis tas). They teach creative writing at Clark University.\n\n— — —\n\nP rétend by Arielle Burgdorf\n\nPrétend follows a young translator from M ontreal whose name and identity are in constant flux. Our protagonist begi ns the story as Jean\, a woman trapped in an abusive marriage to a dangero us man named Konstantin. Isolated and alienated in London\, Jean soon beco mes John\, and her relationship with Konstantin starts to unravel when he asks her to translate his poems from Russian. After she begins to uncover some of Konstantin’s deceits\, she agrees to meet a reclusive artist in Canada named M.\, and leaves Konstantin\, becoming Jeanne upon her return to Montréal.\n\nWorking with M. on a new translation is magical and resto rative for Jeanne\, as she learns for the first time in her life what it m ight be like to have a translator-author relationship free of dated ideas on fidelity\, domination\, and the invisibility of the translator.  Jeann e also starts to realize she has feelings for M. and wants more than just a business relationship together. But M. has a secret too\, and just when it comes to light\, Konstantin lands in Montréal and creates chaos. Jeann e uncovers Konstantin’s biggest secret and becomes determined to expose him\, forcing him to leave her alone once and for all—but will he give i n so easily? And will she find a way to work things out with M.\, or leave Montréal behind for a new city and a new identity?\n\nArielle Burgdorf i s a writer originally from Washington\, D.C. They received their MFA from Chatham University in Pittsburgh where they taught in the Words Without Wa lls program at Allegheny County Jail. Their writing and translations have appeared in Lambda Literary\, Broken Pencil Magazine\, Exilé Sans Fron tières\, Maximum Rocknroll\, and elsewhere. They are currently pursuing a PhD in Literature at UC Santa Cruz focused on queer and feminist experim ental writers from Québec.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://sds.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/Instag ram.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR