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Author talk with KB Brookins September 29

Published about 2 months ago • 2 min read

Reader, I’ve got a special invitation for you.

Join KB Brookins and me for a live conversation about their memoir, Pretty, winner of the 2025 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction.

🗓️Tuesday, September 29
⏰ 7:00 pm CDT
💻 Live on Zoom

Written by a prize-winning young Black trans writer with outsized talent, Pretty is a fierce, disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race.

We’ve got 5 free copies of the book to give away! Complete the Zoom registration by September 7, and you’ll be entered into the drawing. Winners will be announced on September 8 and will be contacted by email.

How to join the event:

Step 1 - ✍️ Click the button below for the free event registration. Please be patient; an actual human is manually approving registrations!

Step 2 - 📚 Buy KB's book to get the most out of the event! Buying through 👉this Bookshop.org link👈 benefits independent bookstores and Parents of Trans Youth at no extra cost to you.
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​Step 3 - 🗣️ Show up live on September 29 through the Zoom link you’ll receive via email and be ready with your questions for KB! (Recording will be available for members of the Parents of Trans Youth Community only.)

​KB Brookins is a writer, educator, and cultural worker from Texas. KB’s poetry collection Freedom House (2023) won the American Library Association Barbara Gittings Literature Award and the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Best First Book of Poetry. KB’s memoir Pretty (2024) won the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Nonfiction, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and the Dorothy Allison/Felice Picano Emerging Writer Award. Their writing is published in The New Republic, Newsweek, Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. Currently, KB is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Santa Clara University and the creator of Trans News That Doesn’t Suck, a digital series that has amassed over 8,000 Substack subscribers and 1 million+ views across Instagram and TikTok. Follow them online at @earthtokb.

This is a Parents of Trans Youth Community book club event — part of our regular rhythm of weekly live events in the online membership community.

And for this specific event, we’re opening the doors for anyone who’d like to check it out. Not only are you invited to this special celebrity author talk, but you’ll also experience our community where affirming parents of trans kids and young adults gather for support, connection, and practical solutions.

Mandy Giles​
Founder and CEO
​Parents of Trans Youth​

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