You are warmly invited to the launch of Speed Glum Hero, the new monograph by D Mortimer, published by Sticky Fingers Publishing. Exploring mental distress, butchness, friendship and survival, Mortimer will be joined on the night by readings from Oisn Roberts, Kasra Jalilipour, Hesse K., Hannah Levene & Hasti.
Speed Glum Hero. Read it as an instruction: Speed, Glum Hero. Read it as an assertion of life, like, keep living, go on. It takes this kind of serious play to make any sense of this moment we are living through. This is a pamphlet about subjectivity splintering, substance, and legend. This is a pamphlet about complicity, tenderness, and distress. This is a pamphlet about what it takes to stay gripping to the earth. The only way out is through.
D Mortimer is a writer and artist from London interested in the crip unknown. Their first book Last Night a Beef Jerk Saved My Life was published by Pilot Press in 2021. Mortimer is a current Techne scholar in trans auto fictions at The University of Roehampton. Their work concerns technologies of madness and their doctoral project is entitled Beef Journals: Naming the Uncertain in Transgender Subject Formation.
The night will be hosted as always by Donna the First. Expect sailor-themed party games, publications, and more available to buy on the night.
Accessibility
Hackney Showroom is wheelchair accessible and step-free access throughout the whole venue, with two gender neutral toilets. You will be able to come and go, and fidgeting, moving and stimming is welcome. The capacity of the live event is 60 and there will be no social distancing or masking in place. There will be flash photography. Find out more about the venue here: https://www.hackneyshowroom.com/access-info/
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Tickets
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5 I sometimes stress about meeting my basic needs
8 I may stress about meeting my basic needs but regularly achieve them.
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