Celebrating the depth and diversity of BC publishing
On Wednesday, November 15th at 6pm, join Massy Arts, Massy Books and Lexington Books in celebrating the launch of Trans People and the Choreography of Reproductive Healthcare: Dancing Outside the Lines, by A.J. Lowik with host Cora Beitel.
This project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au gouvernement du Canada.
Venue & Accessibility
The event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown, Vancouver.
Registration is free and required for entrance.
The gallery is wheelchair accessible and a gender-neutral washroom is on-site.
Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes.
For more on accessibility including parking, seating, venue measurements and floor plan, and how to request ASL interpretation please visit: massyarts.com/accessibility
Covid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are mandatory (N95 masks are recommended as they offer the best protection). We ask if you are showing symptoms, that you stay home. Thank you kindly.
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Reproductive healthcare is choreographically delivered—an intricate collection of seemingly disparate but deftly balanced elements all come together in a complex dance. It is choreographed in ways that presume that the person accessing it—the dancer-patient—will be, among other things, cisgender. As a result, trans people are altogether erased, systematically unanticipated, insufficiently accommodated, or understood only in relation to hegemonic, regulatory frameworks. Trans People and the Choreography of Reproductive Healthcare: Dancing Outside the Lines draws on data from a research study involving qualitative interviews and participatory photography with fourteen trans people from British Columbia, Canada. It uses dance as a metaphor to expose facets of the restrictive choreography of reproductive healthcare, and to document the improvisational tactics used by trans people in their pursuit of care that is competent, safe, and affirming.
“Dance and choreography are more than metaphors in A.J. Lowik’s fetching blend of social science and cultural studies. Those terms offer analytically apt descriptions of how reproductive healthcare provisions for trans people seeks to script the movements of providers and recipients alike in certain ways, while the individual participants find ways to move creatively within these structural constraints. In the end, Lowik calls upon us all to imagine new ways of moving together in ways that better serve our lives.” — Susan Stryker, author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A.J. Lowik is a researcher, instructor and consultant, whose work focuses on advancing trans-inclusive and gender-affirming reproductive healthcare, including menstruation, pregnancy, lactation, sterilization, fertility preservation and abortion. A.J. is the Vice-President of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, and a member of the B.C. Period Poverty Task Force. They are the author of Trans People and the Choreography of Reproductive Healthcare: Dancing Outside the Lines, and the co-editor of The Liminal Chrysalis: Imagining Reproduction and Parenting Futures Beyond the Binary. A.J. is a nonbinary, queer, feminist, who loves cats, jigsaw puzzles, board games, and knitting.
ABOUT THE HOST
Cora Beitel is a registered midwife, educator and community organizer working to increase access to reproductive health care for queer and trans families and undocumented people with precarious immigration status. A founder of the Strathcona Midwifery Collective, Cora has facilitated the Trans and Queer Pregnancy and Parenting (TQPP) group since 2015. In addition to their clinical practice, they currently work as a consultant focusing on inclusive pregnancy, birth and postpartum care for gender diverse people. Cora is non-binary and from Eastern European Jewish ancestry and a parent to three awesome kids. When not working, they’re with family and spend their free time knitting, canning, growing garlic and riding their bike.