Join PFLAG for our July program when we inaugurate our new book reading program! We plan to read two books per year and discuss each at a PFLAG meeting. For July, we will read Julia Serano’s book, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity. Julia Serano is an Oakland, California-based writer, spoken word performer, trans activist, and biologist. Her writings have appeared in queer, feminist, and pop culture magazines and anthologies, been excerpted on National Public Radio and in The Believer and the San Francisco Chronicle, and been used as teaching materials in college-level gender studies courses across the United States. She has a PhD in Biochemistry from Columbia University and is currently a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, in the field of evolutionary and developmental biology.

From the cover:

In this provocative manifesto, biologist and transsexual woman Julia Serano shares her experiences pre-and post-transition and reveals the ways that fear, contempt, and dismissiveness toward femininity shape society’s attitudes towards trans women, as well as gender and sexuality as a whole. Whipping Girl is a personal, analytical, gripping account that debunks popular misconceptions about transsexuality, while exposing the cultural belief that femininity is frivolous, weak, and inherently inferior to maleness and masculinity.

Join us for a provocative discussion about this book and the issues it raises. You don’t have to read the book to participate. We will provide information to make it easy for you to join the discussion, or if you’d rather, just listen in!  To purchase the book, visit Left Hand Books, at 1200 Pearl Street, Suite 10, Boulder, or call 303-443-8252.