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Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Tonight: Julia Kaye + Emily VanDerWerff: My Life in Transition: A Super Late Bloomer Collection

Julia Kaye + Emily VanDerWerff: My Life in Transition: A Super Late Bloomer Collection

This is a ticketed event. All book purchases come with a signed bookplate from the author.

Please purchase a ticket HERE.

Join Julia Kaye as she presents her newest book My Life in Transition: A Super Late Bloomer Collection. Joining Julia in conversation is critic-at-large and TV editor Emily VanDerWerff. This event will be held on Crowdcast.io.

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The follow-up to the critically acclaimed autobiographical comics collection Super Late Bloomer, documenting transgender artist Julia Kaye's life post-transition.

My Life in Transition is a story that's not often told about trans lives: what happens beyond the early days of transition. Both deeply personal and widely relatable, this collection illustrates six months of Julia's life as an out trans woman--about the beauty and pain of love and heartbreak, struggling to find support from bio family and the importance of chosen family, moments of dysphoria and misgendering, learning to lean on friends in times of need, and finding peace in the fact that life keeps moving forward.

After the nerve-wracking, anxiety-ridden early transition period has ended and the hormones have done their thing, this book shows how you can be trans and simply exist in society. You can be trans and have a successful future. You can be trans and have a normal life full of ups and downs. In our current political and social climate, this hopeful, accessible narrative about trans lives is both entertaining and vital.
Julia Kaye + Emily VanDerWerff: My Life in Transition: A Super Late Bloomer Collection
Julia Kaye is an award-winning artist and illustrator whose webcomic Up and Out has garnered hundreds of thousands of readers and wide critical praise. Her commitment to activism has led to collaborations with non-profit organizations such as The Trevor Project and Trans Lifeline. Her work has appeared on Webtoon, GoComics, Buzzfeed, and the Disney animated show Big City Greens. Julia lives in Los Angeles.
Julia Kaye + Emily VanDerWerff: My Life in Transition: A Super Late Bloomer Collection
Emily VanDerWerff is the critic-at-large for Vox and the first TV editor of the A.V. Club. Her work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Salon, and Grantland. She is the host of the Vox Media podcasts I Think You're Interesting and Primetime. Her first book, Monsters of the Week, published in 2018. She lives in Los Angeles with her wife and an ever fluctuating number of cats.

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