Lavender Book Club

Do you love to read or want to read more? Looking for new reads to add to your TBR list? What about a group of folks from community to discuss the latest read? Join Lavender Book Club, Tuesday, February 24th from 5pm – 6pm to discuss this month’s books!

This Month’s Books:

• Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
• Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg

No need to read both books. Please read the trigger warnings at the bottom, to decide which book you would prefer to read.

What to expect in Lavender Book Club:

• A laidback space surrounded by books to discuss the latest reads
• Staff facilitated discussions and questions
• Sharing your opinions and questions about the book you read
• Meeting new people
• making friends!

New to Prism? Here’s what to expect:

• Our doors are always locked for security. We have an intercom at the door as first point of contact. Simply call “front office” from the touch screen.
• Weapons are not allowed in space.
• There is a preliminary security check at the door
• We have an intake form we ask all new folks to fill out. Try to arrive a few minutes early to fill that out.

Books Trigger Warnings:

Freshwater:

• Self-harm, including graphic and repeated references
• Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts
• Sexual assault and rape, including assault by an intimate partner
• Childhood sexual abuse
• Physical and emotional abuse
• Eating disorders and disordered eating
• Mental illness, including dissociation, intrusive thoughts, and loss of bodily autonomy
• Graphic violence, both toward self and others
• Substance use and addiction
• Spiritual possession / loss of control over one’s body (central to the narrative)
• Trauma related to gender, identity, and the body
• Medical trauma, including hospitalization and treatment without consent
• Death and grief

Confessions of the Fox

• Transphobia (historical and institutional)
• Misgendering (intentional and systemic)
• Policing and pathologizing of trans bodies
• Medical violence toward trans people (historical context)
  Physical violence
• Threats of execution / state violence
• Imprisonment and incarceration
• Torture (implied and referenced)
• Capital punishment (historical setting)
  Sexual situations (consensual)
• Sexual violence references (not always graphically depicted, but present)
• Exploitation and coercion