Book presentation by Otter Lieffe about her new book Conserve and Control. Free dinner and movie afterwards!

Otter is a working class, femme, trans woman in and out of Brussels and Berlin. She has been involved in grassroots activism for nearly two decades, in Latin America, the Middle East, Europe and North America. At various times Otter has found herself involved in queer community organising, land reclamation and language teaching in migrant worker communities.

THE BOOK
Conserve and Control is written from the margins. Characters who are non-binary, working class, disabled and trans take central place as we are transported to a queer and green paradise that, like all utopias, is not to be trusted.

As a professional sex worker and working-class activist, Otter Lieffe brings nuance to the ethics of work, kink, sex and activism. In this, her second novel, she explores what it might mean to really create
political change and asks who gets left behind in the process. She invites us to step up and take our place in the struggle and bring our fabulous complexity with us to the front-lines.

This groundbreaking new story can be read alone or as a companion to Margins and Murmurations.

THE MOVIE
During this event, Otter will be reading from the book and signing copies. She will also introduce ‘Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria’ by Victor Silverman and Susan Stryker - an awesome, powerful documentary about transgender women and drag queens who fought police harassment at Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco's Tenderloin in 1966, three years before the famous riot at Stonewall Inn bar in NYC.

More about Conserve and Control:
https://otterlieffe.com/conserve-and-control/

More about Otter Lieffe:
https://otterlieffe.com