Alvina Chamberland will be reading from, signing copies of, and answering questions about her new existential trans feminist autofiction novel "Love the World or Get Killed Trying" - recently listed in the legendary Shakespeare and Company in Paris's 121 Best Books of the 21st Century!!! 💘Named a Most Anticipated Book in Nylon, Them, Ms. Magazine, Autostraddle, San Francisco Chronicle, Bay Area Reporter, LGBTQ-reads, and Write or Die-Magazine. “Perhaps some hearts are so big they must constantly burst and break.” Through playful poetic prose, sharp social commentary and self-deprecating gallows humor Love the World or Get Killed Trying dives into the mind of Alvina, a trans woman on the eve of turning 30. The reader is invited to follow her journey through the breathtaking wilderness of Iceland and busy city boulevards of Berlin and Paris as she probes questions of eternity, sexuality, longing, death, love, and how hard it is to remain soft when you’re a ceaseless target of straight men’s secret lust and open disgust. This 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.

The very popular Trans* and Gender non-conforming poetry night is back for a late summer night session.

Join three Berlin writers to discuss their debut novels, and how the three stories intersect at a place of belonging. Leaving home, finding home, defining home: is it a place, a person, a culture, a taste of spice on your tongue? A place of resistance or acceptance? Robinson, Finkemeyer and Flett and talk about getting in where you fit in / fitting in where you get in, and where it all started for the three: in a writing group in Berlin.