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In collaboration with the (Trans–) Sexualities + Psychoanalysis Summer School, a program of readings by Alara Adilow, hannah baer, and Rosie Stockton.

Host: Marija Cetinic

Alara Adilow, named ‘literary talent of 2024’ by de Volkskrant, is a Dutch poet of Somali descent. Her poetry collection Myths and Stoplights (Uitgeverij Prometheus, 2022) was awarded the Herman de Coninck Prize and the C. Buddingh’s Prize. The collection was also shortlisted for the Grote Poëzie Prize in 2023. Adilow is currently working on her debut novel, which will be published by De Bezige Bij in 2025 under the title Kijk es naar al dit licht.

hannah baer is a writer based in New York. She is the author of the memoir Trans Girl Suicide Museum. Her forthcoming book, The Life of the Party, arrives in 2027 with MCD.

Rosie Stockton is the author of Fuel (nightboat books 2025) and Permanent Volta (nightboat books 2021), recipient of the 2019 Sawtooth Prize judged by Brian Teare. Their poems have been published by Social Text Journal, VOLT, Jubilat, Apogee, Mask Magazine, Tripwire and WONDER PRESS. They are currently a PhD Candidate in the Gender Studies Department at UCLA. Rosie lives and works in Los Angeles.