# Event Details - **Event Name**: Queer Book Club: Black on Both Sides A Racial History of Trans Identity - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 19 Jul, 2025 at 03:00 pm – Sat, 19 Jul, 2025 at 04:30 pm - **Event Description**: Participate in Bethel CT Pride's book discussion in person or online!About this EventBook club is now in-person at Rainy Day Paperback Exchange! But you can always drop in an leave comments about the book whenever you have time those two days, or reply to other people's comments.ABOUT THE BOOKBlack on Both Sides A Racial History of Trans IdentityThe story of Christine Jorgensen, America's first prominent transsexual, narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives. Their erasure from trans history masks the ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. In Black on Both Sides, C. Riley Snorton identifies multiple intersections between blackness and transness from the mid-nineteenth century to present-day anti-black and anti-trans legislation and violence.Drawing on a varied archive of materials, Snorton attends to how slavery and the production of racialized gender provided the foundations for an understanding of gender as mutable. In tracing the genealogies of blackness and transness, Snorton follows multiple trajectories, from the medical experiments conducted on enslaved black women to the negation of blackness.Revealing instances of personal sovereignty among blacks in the antebellum North that were mapped in terms of "cross dressing" and black literary works that express black men's access to the "female within," Black on Both Sides concludes with a reading of the fate of Phillip DeVine, who was murdered alongside Brandon Teena in 1993. Reconstructing these trajectories furthers our capacities to conceive more livable black and trans worlds.Book available from Rainy Day Paperback or you can get the audiobook from Libro.fm: https://libro.fm/playlists/8484?bookstore=rainydaypaperbackAccessibility info:Parking and bathrooms nearby. No ramp access to shop. Small set of steps to entrance. Call ahead to see if bookclub will be outdoors or indoors. If outdoors, noise may be loud / close to road. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/bethel/queer-book-club-black-on-both-sides-a-racial-history-of-trans-identity/100001393566758689 - **Event Categories**: Art, Sports, fine-arts, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fqueer-book-club-black-on-both-sides-a-racial-history-of-trans-identity-tickets-1393566758689 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Bethel - **state**: CT - **country**: United States - **location**: Rainy Day Paperback - **lat**: 41.3718408 - **long**: -73.40823969999997 - **full address**: Rainy Day Paperback, 81 Greenwood Avenue, Bethel, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Bethel CT Pride (https://allevents.in/org/bethel-ct-pride/22510142) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/7af8b38b7fceea43ff1b21f988277b39cae6edde33ca9913db36549c3d6929fa-rimg-w1200-h676-dc000001-gmir.jpg?v=1750454801 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/b7e7fe34095fc7ffa66eaefc518250a94ff02a43a60c9cd38053076e70e859b7-rimg-w400-h400-dc010001-gmir.jpg?v=1750454800 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Sat, 19 Jul, 2025 at 03:00 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Rainy Day Paperback, 81 Greenwood Avenue, Bethel, United States - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Bethel CT Pride - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** Art, Sports, fine-arts, literary-art - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Queer Book Club: Black on Both Sides A Racial History of Trans Identity ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Queer Book Club: Black on Both Sides A Racial History of Trans Identity", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/7af8b38b7fceea43ff1b21f988277b39cae6edde33ca9913db36549c3d6929fa-rimg-w1200-h676-dc000001-gmir.jpg?v=1750454801", "startDate": "2025-07-19", "endDate": "2025-07-19", "url": "https://allevents.in/bethel/queer-book-club-black-on-both-sides-a-racial-history-of-trans-identity/100001393566758689", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Rainy Day Paperback", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "81 Greenwood Avenue", "postalCode": "06801", "addressLocality": "Bethel", "addressRegion": "CT", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "41.3718408", "longitude": "-73.40823969999997" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Participate in Bethel CT Pride's book discussion in person or online!", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "2025-07-19", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/bethel/queer-book-club-black-on-both-sides-a-racial-history-of-trans-identity/100001393566758689" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/bethel/queer-book-club-black-on-both-sides-a-racial-history-of-trans-identity/100001393566758689", "price": 0, "name": "Book Club Registration Reminder" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Bethel CT Pride", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/bethel-ct-pride/22510142", "description": "Bethel CT Pride is a vibrant, volunteer-driven initiative dedicated to supporting and celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community. 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