A reading and Q&A panel featuring Samantha Mann, the editor for I Feel Love: Notes on Queer Joy along with a few of the contributors. Featuring special guest R/B Mertz will be there to discuss their memoir Burning Butch.

This 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.

Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.

Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.

All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.

We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register.

Safety protocol

In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19:

If you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event, we ask you to please stay home.

Please note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center, where the Bureau is located.

Samantha Mann writes personal and nonfiction essays covering LGBTQ life, mental health, and feminism. Her work can be found on BUST, Emry’s Journal, The Establishment, Bustle, and Washington Post Magazine. Samantha lives with her wife in Brooklyn, NY.