Literary Friction - Writing For Change With Shon Faye

It's September, the leaves are starting to turn, and we're kicking off our Autumn season with a vital conversation about the power of writing for change. Our guest is the author Shon Faye, who joined us to discuss her hotly anticipated first book, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice. It's a necessary and inspiring text in which she argues that we're having the wrong conversation about trans people, and that the struggle for trans liberation is all of our struggle. In honour of Shon's book, which aims to change the terms of a cultural conversation, we'll talk more widely about books that seek to shift perspectives, including the ones that shifted ours. It's good to be back!

Recommendations on the theme, Writing for Change:

Octavia: The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud

Carrie: Ways of Seeing by John Berger

General Recommendations:

Octavia: Paul by Daisy Lafarge

Shon: The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan

Carrie: Circe by Madeline Miller

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