[Crwt-undergrad-info] ***REMINDER: Alvina Chamberland Mar 6, 2025 2-3 PM***

[Alex Espinoza]

On *Friday, February 28, 2025 *The Independent
<https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-rescinds-transgender-inmates-rules-b2706937.html>
reported
that the Trump administration has officially rescinded guidelines designed
to protect transgender inmates in federal prisons. This decision, "...is
meant to bring federal prisons in line with the administration’s executive
orders on sex and gender, which declare that the federal government only
recognizes two sexes assigned at birth, male and female, bars housing trans
people in prison facilities matching their gender identity, and directs
prison authorities to cut off spending on sometimes life-saving
gender-affirming medical care for trans inmates." Advocates express concern
that rescinding these guidelines may lead to heightened dangers for
transgender individuals in the prison system, who already face
disproportionately high rates of violence and discrimination.

Join us for a reading and conversation with writer and activist *Alvina
Chamberland* on *March 6, 2025, from 2–3 PM in INTN 3023*. Chamberland has
been a vocal advocate for transgender rights. This is a great opportunity
to hear from an inspiring voice, and to learn about writing and art and
advocacy in an inclusive and supportive space, so don’t miss it!  Light
refreshments will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Arrive
early.

Looking forward to seeing you there. Any questions, please let me know!

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*ABOUT ALVINA CHAMBERLAND*

Alvina Chamberland is a Swedish-US American author of predominantly
literary autofiction novels, residing between Athens and Berlin. She has an
MA in gender studies from Sodertorns University Stockholm, with a thesis on
trans feminine sisterhood and intersectionality in New York City. In 2015
she published in Sweden her co-authored book *Allt som ar Mitt: Valdtakt,
Stigmatisering och Upprattelse* (English translation: *All that is mine:
Rape, Stigmatization and Reparation*). In September 2018 her novel *Utelast
– Uppvaxt- nostalgi for freaks (Locked Out – A nostalgic account of growing
up for freaks*) a parody of the coming of age-genre, was published. *Love
the World or Get Killed Trying* (2024) is her English language debut.

*Love the World or Get Killed Trying *was named one of the 121 Greatest
Books of the 21st Century by the legendary Shakespeare and Company Paris,
as well as receiving rave reviews in Vogue, Nylon, Publishers Weekly, The
Whitney Review of New Writing, Electric Lit, San Francisco Chronicle, Them,
Ms. Magazine, and Autostraddle. The novel tackles universal issues through
a trans woman’s specific lens – insisting on these experiences speaking to
far more than just issues of sexuality and gender. Reaching its climax
through an urgent wildfire scream-of-consciousness, cry-of-love-manifesto,
Love the World or Get Killed Trying is a raw and vulnerable work of magical
brutalist autofiction; abstract in the sense of poetically digging beneath
the surface, and experimental in the sense of trying to find out new things
and express them in new ways, while concretely asserting that if trans
women one day collectively outed every man who seeks them out, a full-blown
revolution would ensue by nightfall.


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*Alex Espinoza*
Professor
Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair
Department of Creative Writing
INTN 3046 | alex.espinoza2 at ucr.edu
www.alexespinoza.com

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