Photo by Val Vossen
We are thrilled to welcome Venus de Mars to our Wednesday series of ten minute live Zoom readings.
7:30 - 7:40 pm (New York time)
Hosted by Thomas Fucaloro
The readings will be streamed live to our facebook page and you may also register to watch directly on Zoom. Registration for Zoom viewing is available through Eventbrite. Please register before 7:15 pm on the day of the event.
Venus de Mars is a multidisciplinary artist and musician, best known as a singer-songwriting transgender rock star and leader of the glam-punk trans-band Venus de Mars & All the Pretty Horses.
Venus came out as transgender in 1988. A time when identifying as trans meant being classified as having a mental perversion and living as an outcast. Her refusal to live a shadow existence, instead embracing her uniqueness, complicated her musical and artistic career paths. She is now mid-process in writing a memoir reflecting her thirty-year trans journey and place in this fast-changing, trans-embracing-backlashing world where we now find ourselves.
Venus, along with her wife Lynette Reini-Grandell, are also the subject of the award-winning [2004] rock documentary Venus of Mars by filmmaker Emily Goldberg.