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Reading with Jason Christie and jayy dodd
May 19, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
FreeJoin us for an evening of poetry with Jason Christie and jayy dodd.
What happens to identity when we’re obsessed with self-surveillance and devalued words? Now that we’ve sold ourselves to ourselves, shuffling letters and sounds around to hide the pain, how do we represent the uncanny valley in which we’ve set up shop? In lèse-majesté, Jason Christie recoils in horror at the thoroughness of his self, then begins to write toward a new understanding brokered between all the things that define him and who he thinks he should be and interrogates how we reduce people to words, especially online, turning them into objects. Jason Christie is the author of Canada Post, i-ROBOT, Unknown Actor, and a coeditor of Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry.
jayy dodd is a blxk trans womxn from los angeles, california– now based in Portland, OR. she is a literary & performance artist. her work has appeared / will appear in zines & classrooms & basements & bookstores & over there probably. her words are award-nominated & are generally controversial. she is also a volunteer gender-terrorist, artificial intellectual, & wilderness prophet on the end times. she is the author of Mannish Tongues (Platypus Press 2017) & The Black Condition ft. Narcissus (Nightboat Books 2019). she serves as executive director for Dovesong Labs.