We are excited to collaborate with meTamorphosis to host Book Club every other month. Book club picks will be 10% off 30 days in advance of the meeting day, to give you time to read it. And plan on grabbing a drink and a snack from the café when you come to the meeting!

July’s Book: Unsex Me Here by Aurora Mattia

“This story collection sounds ethereal and haunted, blending realism, the speculative, and autofiction for a true genre-bending experience.”—Autostraddle, “Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for April”

“A fairy tale, in the classic, sparkling, and powerful ways.”—Michelle Tea, author of Black Wave

“Aurora Mattia writes from the point where passion, pleasure, and fury are transmuted into ecstatic vision. She intervenes into the perennial concerns of trans writing—how to confess without betraying, and how to resist the temptation to simplify experience to something coherent and false. These stories are ruptures in the taut skin of reality, but listen closely and you can hear the implacable, promiscuous mind of a trans woman of our era, trying again and again to break through to the real truth.”—Emily Zhou, author of Girlfriends

meTamorphosis is a local queer & trans led event series committed to uplifting emerging LGBTQ+ writers by curating inclusive community readings in Pittsburgh, PA. meTamorphosis celebrates queer & trans people’s commitment to ongoing transformation and embracing change to become who they know themselves to be.

About the organizer:
AMARI ONYX is a Black trans writer and artist. He is the Events Coordinator at White Whale and manages the Poetry, Memoir, and Essays sections. Amari’s writing is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review and Obsidian. He is the founder and organizer of the local queer & trans reading series, meTamorphosis. Follow @metamorphosis.pgh to stay up to date for upcoming readings and community events. You can find his book reviews on Instagram at @trustyourwings.books. Amari adores Black queer & trans poetics, queer night life, and film photography.