Keep marching.
This month, we're staying in motion and reading KB Brookins' memoir Pretty.
Earlier in the month I tried to explain “March forth on March fourth!” to my kiddo but she just looked at me askance.
As the temps keep teasing us here in the northeast with spring flowers, this remains my drumbeat: Keep marching. Running. Resisting. Writing. Keep drawing and dissenting. Keep going, and going, and going, and living… What’s keeping you alive this month?
▶️ Press Play
Another dose of Robert Glasper to remind us all that it’s Gonna Be Alright. This particular recording is from an outdoor session with the Metropole Orkest in Rotterdam.
📚️🏳️⚧️✨ Being Alive Book Club
This month we’re reading KB Brookins’ multi-award-winning memoir Pretty. Join me and KB on on Zoom Mon March 30th at 8p ET 5p PT—we’ll dig into their memoir, dance in their poetry, and drink a toast to their recent appointment as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Santa Clara University. (RSVP for KB)
KB gives great Substack. Rec following him here and subscribing to their publication: Trans News That Doesn't Suck.
Being Alive Book Club is a community effort to amplify trans voices by reading trans authors. Every month we read a book across genres.
Bookmark 😉 the home of Being Alive Book Club for links to all the upcoming books, FAQs, and previous recaps.
January: Before We Were Trans with Kit Heyam
February: Nevada with Imogen Binnie
March: Pretty with KB Brookins (RSVP for March 30th)
April: Night Night Fawn with Jordy Rosenberg (RSVP for April 30th)
May: When the Harvest Comes with Denne Michele Norris
June: Woodworking with Emily St. James
Have a trans author you want to recommend to Being Alive Book Club? Drop me message or comment on this post.
Love a good book club