Book Launch: A Queer Guide to Saving American Democracy

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Join us for the launch of R.K. Maril's A Queer Guide to Saving American Democracy. About the book: Since the early 2000s, American courts and legislatures have delivered a series of generation-defining LGBTQ legal victories. Today, this progress and the very institutions that made it possible are under attack. A Queer Guide to Saving American Democracy is an introduction to this democratic crisis, speaking directly to the queer and transgender people navigating the intensifying political and cultural fault lines. It argues that the current denigration of queer and transgender lives in the US is a symptom of the broader degradation of American democracy, representing the newest threat of American fascism. By centering queer and trans identity in the larger history of authoritarianism, the book highlights the strategic villainization of nonconforming groups as a tool to consolidate power and political control. In response, this book empowers readers to adopt pro-democracy frameworks rooted in the defiant authenticity and stubborn joy of queer existence, forging pathways committed to transformative social change. About the author: Robin is a writer and Constitutional Law professor based in Portland, Oregon. Her work engages questions of democratic integrity and the growing threat of fascism and authoritarian regimes within America. She also hosts the podcast A Queer Guide to Saving Democracy. She is a widely recognized scholar on LGBTQ rights and policy, Executive power, and the law of democracy. Before teaching, Robin worked in the LGBTQ civil rights movement at the Human Rights Campaign for nearly a decade. Robin began her legal career as a Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. She and her wife have two sons, two dogs, and an unknown number of snails. She is a proud graduate of the University of Oklahoma and Temple University Beasley School of Law. About the moderator: Kate Sosin is a veteran LGBTQ+ reporter who has covered everything from presidential campaigns to puppy mills. They have done deep dive investigations into prison abuse for NBC News, interviewed pop star Demi Lovato, written a totally believable news article about trans people and ghosts, and won many awards you’ve never heard of. Their work has been published by a lot of places you have heard of like, NPR, The 19th, Teen Vogue, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Texas Tribune, PBS NewsHour, Chicago Magazine, USA Today, Yahoo and MSN. They live in Los Angeles, CA.

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