from my email, johanna hedva news

 

ahoy comrades, i hope this email finds your morale as high as can be despite the recent assiest ass astrology (retrograde, retrograde, eclipses, fall, detriment, fall!). if you're still out here lingering or malingering, i salute you, i'm here too, and i want to invite you to a couple things i've cooked up for may. would love to see you there. from the trenches with love, hedva 1) online i'm teaching a new class :D After, Under, and Through: A writing class in the apocalypse This is a writing class happening in what feels like an apocalypse: it will reach for language about the afterlife of it all, the undercommons of it all, and how the fuck we’re gonna get through it. It will be a space to write, think, and feel into modes of creating, organizing, resisting, fighting—and it will also make a lot of space for exhaustion, burnout, and malingering. It will be about being as much as doing. Three Thursdays, begins May 1. More info and sign up here.

2) Los Angeles  Celebrate my book, How to Tell When We Will Die, at MOCA with my besties, P. Staff and Xina Xurner, on Thursday, May 15, 6pm - 8pm "Released in fall 2024, the essay collection's ongoing impact and reach has revolutionized disability discourse to include topics such as monstrosity, queerness, kink, sex, pleasure, ambition, heavy metal moshpits, wrestling, and the color yellow. Multimedia presentations from Hedva, P. Staff, and Xina Xurner will be followed by discussion, audience Q&A, and book signing. This event is perfect for the queerdos, punks, freaks, hags, crips, and hotties who feel seen by the book's liberatory exultation of the political and aesthetic subversion and beauty to be found in non-normative bodies."  Free with RSVP here. 3) New York City Fuck Debt! with my NYC bestie Jordan Lord at the Poetry Project, Friday, May 23, 8pm "When we say fuck debt, we of course mean fuck interest and the financial practice of profiting from the act of meeting a need, which most American institutions depend on—banks, insurance companies, universities, to name just a few. But we also mean there’s no fucking without debt (another word for need, dependency, risk). "In this outdoor event, the artists and writers Johanna Hedva and Jordan Lord will think together about the entanglements of sex with money, social life, disability, eating out, friendship, inheritance, the past, prophecy, where and when we live, and how we’ll die. Hedva and Lord will share their work, talk about writing, movies, and work they haven’t made yet, all of which is largely because of debt, in many senses."  $10 and info here.