Tue June 4, 2024
9th Ave: Julian Carter with Matthew Clark Davison
at Green Apple Books on the Park
(7pm-8pm)
Join us on Tuesday, June 4 at 7pm PT for the launch of Julian Carter's Dances of Time and Tenderness with Matthew Clark Davison at 9th Ave!
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online/Livestream link available soon
Praise for Dances of Time and Tenderness
"In this new book, equal parts tender and bold, Carter activates touch as mode of trans worldmaking. Across bodies, human and otherwise, this book enacts an inter-generational praxis of intimacy and care, inviting us to form new erotic connections with our transcestors in the service of a world to come. Sexy, sensual, and smart, this work bubbles over with Carter's effusive spirit."--Juana María Rodríguez
"Julian Carter has an eye for exquisite detail: a stitch, a step, a glance, a touch, a trace upon a page--all enchained, entrained in lyric vignettes to sketch a history transmitted intimately, across the queer and trans generations, inviting us to dance with him across the folds of time."--Susan Stryker
About Dances of Time and Tenderness
A cycle of stories linking queer memory, activism, death, and art in a transpoetic history of desire and touch.
Dances of Time and Tenderness is a bold, sensual account of what Julian Carter calls "the trans promise: what we do with our bodies changes worlds." With delicate drawings of chains linking the dungeons of 1990s San Francisco to medieval catacombs, AIDS funerals, and Tennessee truckstops, Carter proposes intimacy as a technology of history. Here, historians and artists, students and lovers, sailors and skeletons join across deep time in a transgenderational lineage of queer carnality as culture, inviting us to enter a gorgeously complex, formally precise choreography of sweetness, rage and sorrow--"this is not a memoir, it's collective memory."
About Julian Carter
Julian Carter has been thinking with his body for a very long time. He is the author of The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1890-1940 as well as numerous critical essays exploring how embodied identities are developed, communicated, contested, and lived in cultural productions ranging from vintage public health pamphlets to postmodern dance performance. He teaches at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
About Matthew Clark Davison
Matthew Clark Davison is a writer and educator living in San Francisco. He earned a BA and MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, where he now teaches full-time. His prose has been recently anthologized in Empty The Pews and 580-Split, and published in Guernica, The Atlantic Monthly, Foglifter, Lumina Magazine, Fourteen Hills, Per Contra, Educe, and others; and has been recognized with a Creative Work Grant, (Inaugural Awardee/San Francisco State University), Cultural Equities Grant (San Francisco Arts Commission), the Clark Gross Award for a Novel-in-Progress, and a Stonewall Alumni Award.
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Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online/Livestream link available soon
Praise for Dances of Time and Tenderness
"In this new book, equal parts tender and bold, Carter activates touch as mode of trans worldmaking. Across bodies, human and otherwise, this book enacts an inter-generational praxis of intimacy and care, inviting us to form new erotic connections with our transcestors in the service of a world to come. Sexy, sensual, and smart, this work bubbles over with Carter's effusive spirit."--Juana María Rodríguez
"Julian Carter has an eye for exquisite detail: a stitch, a step, a glance, a touch, a trace upon a page--all enchained, entrained in lyric vignettes to sketch a history transmitted intimately, across the queer and trans generations, inviting us to dance with him across the folds of time."--Susan Stryker
About Dances of Time and Tenderness
A cycle of stories linking queer memory, activism, death, and art in a transpoetic history of desire and touch.
Dances of Time and Tenderness is a bold, sensual account of what Julian Carter calls "the trans promise: what we do with our bodies changes worlds." With delicate drawings of chains linking the dungeons of 1990s San Francisco to medieval catacombs, AIDS funerals, and Tennessee truckstops, Carter proposes intimacy as a technology of history. Here, historians and artists, students and lovers, sailors and skeletons join across deep time in a transgenderational lineage of queer carnality as culture, inviting us to enter a gorgeously complex, formally precise choreography of sweetness, rage and sorrow--"this is not a memoir, it's collective memory."
About Julian Carter
Julian Carter has been thinking with his body for a very long time. He is the author of The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1890-1940 as well as numerous critical essays exploring how embodied identities are developed, communicated, contested, and lived in cultural productions ranging from vintage public health pamphlets to postmodern dance performance. He teaches at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
About Matthew Clark Davison
Matthew Clark Davison is a writer and educator living in San Francisco. He earned a BA and MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, where he now teaches full-time. His prose has been recently anthologized in Empty The Pews and 580-Split, and published in Guernica, The Atlantic Monthly, Foglifter, Lumina Magazine, Fourteen Hills, Per Contra, Educe, and others; and has been recognized with a Creative Work Grant, (Inaugural Awardee/San Francisco State University), Cultural Equities Grant (San Francisco Arts Commission), the Clark Gross Award for a Novel-in-Progress, and a Stonewall Alumni Award.
Join us on Tuesday, June 4 at 7pm PT for the launch of Julian Carter's Dances of Time and Tenderness with Matthew Clark Davison at 9th Ave!
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online/Livestream link available soon
Praise for Dances of Time and Tenderness
"In this new book, equal parts tender and bold, Carter activates touch as mode of trans worldmaking. Across bodies, human and otherwise, this book enacts an inter-generational praxis of intimacy and care, inviting us to form new erotic connections with our transcestors in the service of a world to come. Sexy, sensual, and smart, this work bubbles over with Carter's effusive spirit."--Juana María Rodríguez
"Julian Carter has an eye for exquisite detail: a stitch, a step, a glance, a touch, a trace upon a page--all enchained, entrained in lyric vignettes to sketch a history transmitted intimately, across the queer and trans generations, inviting us to dance with him across the folds of time."--Susan Stryker
About Dances of Time and Tenderness
A cycle of stories linking queer memory, activism, death, and art in a transpoetic history of desire and touch.
Dances of Time and Tenderness is a bold, sensual account of what Julian Carter calls "the trans promise: what we do with our bodies changes worlds." With delicate drawings of chains linking the dungeons of 1990s San Francisco to medieval catacombs, AIDS funerals, and Tennessee truckstops, Carter proposes intimacy as a technology of history. Here, historians and artists, students and lovers, sailors and skeletons join across deep time in a transgenderational lineage of queer carnality as culture, inviting us to enter a gorgeously complex, formally precise choreography of sweetness, rage and sorrow--"this is not a memoir, it's collective memory."
About Julian Carter
Julian Carter has been thinking with his body for a very long time. He is the author of The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1890-1940 as well as numerous critical essays exploring how embodied identities are developed, communicated, contested, and lived in cultural productions ranging from vintage public health pamphlets to postmodern dance performance. He teaches at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
About Matthew Clark Davison
Matthew Clark Davison is a writer and educator living in San Francisco. He earned a BA and MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, where he now teaches full-time. His prose has been recently anthologized in Empty The Pews and 580-Split, and published in Guernica, The Atlantic Monthly, Foglifter, Lumina Magazine, Fourteen Hills, Per Contra, Educe, and others; and has been recognized with a Creative Work Grant, (Inaugural Awardee/San Francisco State University), Cultural Equities Grant (San Francisco Arts Commission), the Clark Gross Award for a Novel-in-Progress, and a Stonewall Alumni Award.
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Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online/Livestream link available soon
Praise for Dances of Time and Tenderness
"In this new book, equal parts tender and bold, Carter activates touch as mode of trans worldmaking. Across bodies, human and otherwise, this book enacts an inter-generational praxis of intimacy and care, inviting us to form new erotic connections with our transcestors in the service of a world to come. Sexy, sensual, and smart, this work bubbles over with Carter's effusive spirit."--Juana María Rodríguez
"Julian Carter has an eye for exquisite detail: a stitch, a step, a glance, a touch, a trace upon a page--all enchained, entrained in lyric vignettes to sketch a history transmitted intimately, across the queer and trans generations, inviting us to dance with him across the folds of time."--Susan Stryker
About Dances of Time and Tenderness
A cycle of stories linking queer memory, activism, death, and art in a transpoetic history of desire and touch.
Dances of Time and Tenderness is a bold, sensual account of what Julian Carter calls "the trans promise: what we do with our bodies changes worlds." With delicate drawings of chains linking the dungeons of 1990s San Francisco to medieval catacombs, AIDS funerals, and Tennessee truckstops, Carter proposes intimacy as a technology of history. Here, historians and artists, students and lovers, sailors and skeletons join across deep time in a transgenderational lineage of queer carnality as culture, inviting us to enter a gorgeously complex, formally precise choreography of sweetness, rage and sorrow--"this is not a memoir, it's collective memory."
About Julian Carter
Julian Carter has been thinking with his body for a very long time. He is the author of The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1890-1940 as well as numerous critical essays exploring how embodied identities are developed, communicated, contested, and lived in cultural productions ranging from vintage public health pamphlets to postmodern dance performance. He teaches at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
About Matthew Clark Davison
Matthew Clark Davison is a writer and educator living in San Francisco. He earned a BA and MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, where he now teaches full-time. His prose has been recently anthologized in Empty The Pews and 580-Split, and published in Guernica, The Atlantic Monthly, Foglifter, Lumina Magazine, Fourteen Hills, Per Contra, Educe, and others; and has been recognized with a Creative Work Grant, (Inaugural Awardee/San Francisco State University), Cultural Equities Grant (San Francisco Arts Commission), the Clark Gross Award for a Novel-in-Progress, and a Stonewall Alumni Award.
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