[Sehefac] Fwd: ***PLEASE JOIN US--Alvina Chamberland on Art, Activism & Trans Identity***

[Allison Hedge Coke]

From: Alex Espinoza <alex.espinoza2 at ucr.edu>
Date: Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Subject: ***PLEASE JOIN US--Alvina Chamberland on Art, Activism & Trans
Identity***
To:


Dear UCR Community--

I’m excited to invite you to a special event I’ll be hosting on *Thursday,
March 6, 2025, from 2–3 PM in INTN 3023*, featuring trans activist, artist,
writer, and all-around fabulous human being, *Alvina Chamberland*. This
event is free and open to all! Light refreshments will be provided on a
first-come, first-served basis, so be sure to arrive early!

As we have all witnessed, in recent years, anti-trans sentiments have been
rising in the United States, exacerbated by the current administration's
implementation of draconian policies that undermine transgender rights.
Notably, the current president has signed executive orders banning
transgender individuals from serving in the military, prohibiting trans
athletes from participating in women's sports, and restricting
gender-affirming care for minors. These actions not only threaten the
rights and safety of trans individuals but also undermine fundamental
principles of equality and dignity. At a time when trans voices are being
silenced or misrepresented, it is more important than ever to create spaces
for authentic storytelling, advocacy, and solidarity. This event is an
opportunity to engage with a powerful writer and activist who challenges
these narratives and affirms the resilience and humanity of trans
communities.

*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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Any questions, please feel free to reach out.
Æ

*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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