Book Talk: FINDING RENEE RICHARDS by Julie Kliegman, with Giri Nathan

QED Astoria and the Astoria Bookshop present a book talk for author Julie Kliegman’s FINDING RENEE RICHARDS, a new biography of the pioneering trans athlete (and Queens native). Julie will be in conversation with Giri Nathan, co-founder and tennis writer at Defector.com.
About the Book
Fifty years ago, tennis player Renée Richards made international headlines in her fight to compete in the women’s draw of the 1977 US Open—marking the first time a trans athlete sued to participate in professional sports in the gender category with which they identify.
Finding Renée Richards chronicles Richards’s extraordinary life, moving from her tumultuous upbringing in Queens, New York, to her career as a successful eye surgeon; her years as a star tennis player to her role as a transgender pioneer. Now in her nineties, Renée remains a complex figure: A person who changed the sports world forever yet questions the place of trans athletes in that world today.
GLAAD award-nominated sports journalist Julie Kliegman deftly probes these contradictions, drawing on intimate interviews and offering critical reflections on what is at stake for athletes, fans, and the queer community today, at a time when trans participation in sports is more hotly contested—and condemned—than ever before.