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The Visibility:2022 Student Planning Committee is thrilled to host acclaimed novelist Torrey Peters GR'13. We encourage and appreciate masks at this event, which is free of charge and open to the public.

A Conversation with Torrey Peters
Moderated by Professor Mingwei Huang
Tuesday, April 5 • 7:30 pm EDT
Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

Livestream on Dartmouth's YouTube channel • http://dartgo.org/vis22-torreypeters
ASL Interpretation provided by Michelle Whitaker

Join author Torrey Peters GR'13 and Professor Mingwei Huang in a moderated conversation about gender and creative writing, including Peters' experience as a trans woman at Dartmouth and in the publishing industry. An audience question and answer session will follow the conversation, providing an opportunity for the audience to directly engage with Peters and Professor Huang. The event will conclude with book signings.

Free copies of Detransition, Baby will be given to the first 50 undergraduate students in attendance (Dartmouth ID required). Detransition, Baby will also be available for purchase on-site from Still North Books.

Purchase a copy of Detransition, Baby from Still North Books & Bar and 20% of the title’s sales in the month of April will be donated to WISE, a local nonprofit providing crisis advocacy and support for people and communities impacted by domestic violence, sexual violence, and stalking within 21 communities of the Upper Valley of New Hampshire and Vermont.

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Torrey Peters is the author of the bestselling novel Detransition, Baby (Random House, 2021), which was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for the John Leonard Prize, longlisted for the Women’s Prize, and was a Roxane Gay’s Audacious Book Club Pick. She is also the author of the novellas Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones and The Masker. Peters holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a Masters in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth. She splits her time between Brooklyn and an off-grid cabin in Vermont.

Mingwei Huang (she/her) is assistant professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies, fellow with the Consortium of Studies in Race, Migration, and Sexuality, and faculty advisor for the Sexual Assault Peer Alliance (SAPA).

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Visibility:2022 is Dartmouth’s annual student-led campaign to promote gender equity and end gender- and power-based violence. For more information and/or accommodations, visit http://dartgo.org/vis22 or email Assistant Dean Amanda Wong at opal.wag@dartmouth.edu.