Making Queer & Trans Worlds: YA and Speculative Fiction in Chaotic Times

This program is a collaboration between SJPL and SJSU Library.

This panel will feature writers and scholars discussing the importance of young adult and speculative fiction for queer and trans folks, and their allies. In addition to professors Maite Urcaregui and Daniel Rivers, this panel will feature Mara Olivas, an MFA graduate from SJSU and the author of Sundown in San Ojuela (Lanternfish Press, 2024). The panel will feature discussions of the history of queer/trans YA and speculative fiction, as well as personal experiences coming into the genres, and reflections on the ways speculative genres connect to social movements, subcultural worlds, and queer and trans futures.

Register Here for the Zoom.

(Ages 16+)

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