hannah baer – I need you [in the club]

tranzit.cz, in collaboration with the Lunchmeat Festival, presents a live video lecture by American writer and psychologist hannah baer, which will take place in the Korzo of the Trade Fair Palace in Prague on Thursday, September 25, 2025. The lecture will be hosted in English by cultural publicist David Laufer and will be broadcast live, with space reserved for questions from the audience. The event precedes the release of the Czech translation of hannah baer’s book trans girl suicide museum, which will be published by tranzit in December 2025.

What do we ask of each other when we go out? Nightlife spaces are often seen as spaces of freedom, disinhibition, and self-expression. Arguably, they are also spaces that require us to attend to each other. What is the quality of this dependency? In what way are spaces that are chaotic, improvisational, and sometimes dissolute also spaces where we need each other more than ever? Drawing on personal narrative, psychoanalytic theory, and current events, we will talk about how party spaces function as spaces of interdependence.

hannah baer is a writer and clinical psychologist based in New York. She is the author of the memoir trans girl suicide museum. A Czech edition of the book, translated by Sylva Ficová, will be released by the tranzit.cz publishing house in December 2025. baer’s second book, The Life of the Party, is forthcoming in 2027. She is currently in psychoanalytic training.