Impossible Things: Queer and Trans Lit Night
Thu, Dec 04
|Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore
As Carmen Maria Machado writes, "I believe in a world where impossible things happen." Come for a night of queer and trans lit and community, a night of being impossible things imagining impossible things for our world and what we make of it.
Time & Location
Dec 04, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore, 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
About the event
Featuring Adele Failes-Carpenter, Maria Derrick, Tala | mecca khanmalek, heidi andrea restrepo rhodes, and Alexis Aceves Garcia.
Adele Failes-Carpenter (she/her) is a queer parent, public educator, and labor organizer residing on Ohlone land where she teaches Women’s and Gender Studies at City College of San Francisco. Adele has spent decades organizing with young people, GI resisters, anti-war veterans, and labor unions. As a writer and educator, she aims to tend abolitionist imagining and is committed to ongoing experiments in solidarity and the proliferation of possible futures. Adele was a Lambda Literary Summer 2024 fellow in Creative Nonfiction and is a MFA candidate at Antioch University in Los Angeles.
Maria Derrick (they/elle) is a trans, nonbinary, mixed 3rd-generarion Mexican American who grew up in Altadena, California. They are currently a student at City College San Francisco and taking a Poetry For The People class under the bestest teacher evva, Tehmina Khan.…