In Short: Black Femme Transformation in Eloghosa Osunde — �s — �Grief Is the Gift That Breaks the Spirit Open — � with Magenta Naaku

Registration includes a complimentary drink from our Café & Bar. Series Discount: Join both groups in our Black Femme Transformation series at a discounted rate. Add this group to your cart along with Black Femme Transformation in Pemi Aguda’s “Manifest” and enter the coupon code BLACKFEMME to receive the bundle price ($80 total; $72 for members). Can physical and spiritual transformation be essential to Black femme survival, liberation, and pleasure? When does embodiment become an opportunity to shapeshift or possess others? How can rearranging our bodies to better fit our spirits lead to a mortal/supernatural collision? Who are we on the other side of possession? How do we arrange our bodies after evaporating? Black Femme Transformation is a reading group inspired by our kin who embrace the fluidity of flesh and refuse to cage their souls. We’ll read short stories about femmes who trade in their humanity in their pursuit of pleasure and freedom, and conjure the liminality of their imaginations into full-fledged realities–for better or worse. In Eloghosa Osunde’s “Grief Is the Gift That Breaks the Spirit Open,” a Black femme discovers she has the ability to shapeshift by snatching abandoned bodies. As she navigates this new ability, she explores the depths of her sexual pleasure. This vivacious queer story expands on the complexities of desire and relationships, and the parts of ourselves we choose to keep hidden versus what we share with our lovers.