Knihex Book Fair: Discussion About the Book "trans girl suicide museum" by hannah baer

Discussion with the book editor Nela Pietrová and with activist, American studies scholar, and translator Jamie Rose introduces the Czech translation of hannah baer’s book trans girl suicide museum and the topics associated with it. The memoir relentlessly reveals the experiences of transgender bodies and debunks the entrenched notion of transgenderism as a linear process toward a solid, finished, and binary state. baer invites us into her personal archive, guiding us through the emotional lows of her second puberty, during which, in a ketamine-fueled intoxication, she manicly records shifting reflections on gender, sexuality, and patriarchy. She subjects everything to deep self-reflection, becoming aware of her class position, and intertwines diary entries with critical theory, diagrams, and memes. The book is an honest travelogue of transition and a meditation on the hope of survival in the contemporary world.