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SUMMARY:Dreaming Trans Futures: Lucie Fielding and Avgi Saketopoulou in Conversation (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:In a moment marked by escalating and ever-chilling anti-trans sentiment and violence\, do trans joy\, the trans erotic\, and trans pleasure have a place? How might we go about imagining—and enacting!—pathways that lead to trans thriving? On the occasion of the publication of the second edition of Trans Sex: Nurturing Trans Erotic Embodiment and Gender-Pleasure\, the book’s author\, Lucie Fielding\, and psychoanalyst Avgi Saketopoulou will engage in a wide-ranging conversation that dreams of trans futures steeped in and animated by desire\, solidarity\, mutual entanglement\, and (gender-)pleasure. \n  \nTo reserve a copy of Trans Sex: Nurturing Trans Erotic Embodiment and Gender-Pleasure (Routledge\, October 23\, 2025\, paperback\, $28.99) please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve Trans Sex for October 29 event” in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nYou can also purchase Trans Sex (click on title below) on our online shop at bookshop.com/shop/bgsqd: \nTrans Sex \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \n\n\nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n\nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nThe Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a donation. \n\nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @BGSQD \nEven better: sign up to make a monthly tax-deductible donation to the Bureau! \n\nThank you for committing to sustaining this vital project! \n\n  \nLucie Fielding is a therapist\, a sex and kink educator\, and the author of the book Trans Sex: Nurturing Trans Erotic Embodiment and Gender-Pleasure (2nd Ed). The first edition of Trans Sex (2021) Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments (Routledge\, 2021) was shortlisted for a 2022 Lambda Literary Award in the Transgender-Nonfiction category and was awarded the 2022 AASECT Book Award (Book for Sexuality Professionals)\, the 2024 SSTAR Health Professionals Book Award\, and the 2024 APA Division 44 Distinguished Book Award. \n  \nAvgi Saketopoulou is an immigrant from Cyprus and Greece and a practicing psychoanalyst. She teaches at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Her published work centers on issues of queer desire\, consent\, and is committed to renewing sadism as an ethical and political intervention. She is the author of Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk\, Race\, Traumatophilia and co-author\, with Ann Pellegrini\, of Gender Without Identity. In 2025\, she co-founded P-HOLE (Psychoanalytic Hub for Online Liberatory Education)\, a pro-trans\, pro-queer\, pro-Palestine\, anti-racist learning group\, committed to decolonial practices\, and to disability and economic justice. Her next book project is provisionally titled Sadism’s Offer: Aesthetics and the Revolutionary Impulse. 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/dreaming-trans-futures/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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