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A trans essayist with a checkered past takes on the big questions of human existence—
Move over Michel de Montaigne, there’s a new girl in town! 

Vivian Blaxell will read from her new collection Worthy of the Event followed by a conversation with Northwestern Associate Professor in Creative Writing and Author Daisy Hernández.

Presented by the Workshop in Trans Studies of the Kaplan Humanities Institute.

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Vivian Blaxell grew up in rural Australia and co-founded Tiresias House, Australia’s first shelter and resource center for and by trans people. Her essay “Nuclear Cats” was shortlisted for the 2021 Melbourne Prize for Literature and her new full-length essay collection, Worthy of the Events, is out now from Little Puss Press. She lives in Naarm/Melbourne, VIC, Austrailia.

Daisy Hernández is the author of The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease (Tin House, 2021) and the memoir A Cup of Water Under My Bed (Beacon Press, 2014). Her essays and Fiction have appeared in Brevity, Dogwood, and Gulf Coast, among others. She is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Northwestern.