(Tucson, AZ) Pima County Public Library's Pride Team celebrates LGBTQ+ History Month in October with one of its longest running programs, the Pride Author Talk. This year's featured author is Tucson poet TC Tolbert. This year's event will be held on Saturday, October 25 from 3 to 4:30 at Murphy-Wilmot Library (530 N. Wilmot Rd). It will also be offered virtually. Those who wish to attend virtually should register in advance to receive the meeting link.
Join TC on the 25th for a poetry reading, interactive activities, a discussion with the audience, a Q&A session, and a book signing. Light refreshments will be served and ASL interpretation will be available.
About TC
TC Tolbert (he/him/hey grrrl) is a trans and genderqueer monkey-goat who never ceases to experience a simultaneous grief and deep love any time s/he pays attention to the world. S/he writes poems, works with wood, learns, teaches, and collaborates in Tucson, AZ where s/he is the current Poet Laureate. Publications include Gephyromania , opens a new window(Ahsahta Press, 2014/Nightboat Books, 2022) and five chapbooks including The Quiet Practices, opens a new window, winner of the 2023 Chad Walsh Chapbook Prize at Beloit Poetry Journal. TC is co-editor (along with Trace Peterson) of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books 2013). In 2019, TC was awarded an Academy of American Poets’ Laureate Fellowship for his work with trans, non-binary, and queer folks as Tucson’s Poet Laureate.
Affectionately known as The Project Princess, TC builds for The Outlaw Project, opens a new window (Tiny Homes for Trans Women of Color) and Mariposas Sin Fronteras, opens a new window (short term housing for LGBTQ+ migrants). In 2022, TC co-founded Building Out Safer Spaces and Skill Sets, opens a new window with Victor Valencia. Building Out is committed to, and excited about, creating a skill-building community that is explicitly anti-racist, feminist, and physically, mentally, and emotionally safer for Women, Queer, Trans, and Femme of Center people. TC hopes you’ll jump in and Build Out too!