Cactus Book Club x AFSP 💙📖

Join us Wednesday, September 3rd for our next Cactus Book Club. This month’s featured organization American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) – Wisconsin Chapter will lead the discussion on Hello, Cruel World: 101+ Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws (Second Edition) by Kate Bornstein. “The twentieth anniversary edition of transgender trailblazer Kate Bornstein’s one-of-a-kind guide to staying alive — for teens, freaks, and other outlaws…it offers a much-needed and unorthodox catalog of alternatives to suicide for all of us — ranging from the playful to the irreverent to the controversial, fun, challenging, earnest, and easy. With love, humor, and grit, Bornstein dares readers to re-envision the gender system, encouraging us to unleash our hearts’ desires and journey toward an emphatic embrace of life.

Recommended bookseller: Seven Stories Press. CBC members receive a 20% discount if you purchase through this link: https://sevenstories.com/books/4724-hello-cruel-world-second-edition?discount_code=HCW20

This event is FREE

https://www.cactusclubmilwaukee.com/events/cbc-sept3-2025-2/

You may also like the following events from American Foundation for Suicide Prevention - Wisconsin Chapter:

• Next Wednesday, 13th August, 06:30 pm, Volunteer Orientation in Verona
• Next month, 4th September, 03:30 pm, 🌈 Pride in Prevention: Building Hope Together in Wauwatosa
• Next month, 10th September, 04:00 pm, Dough-Nation Night with Toppers Pizza! 🍕 in Wausau