CANCELLED CONFESSIONS (Aveux non avenus, 1930) by Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, with Amelia Groom
with an introduction by Amelia Groom, author of the book's introduction followed by a discussion with Sam Dolbear
Thursday September 5, 8pm
“Claude Cahun’s words, a broken mirror, mirror a shattering self whose twigs and tinsel draw the magpie eye of our attention, yet remind us nonetheless to mind the encompassing void, where the poetry lives, both in Cancelled Confessions and in the world we share with this powerful and beautifully framed translation.” – Susan Stryker, author of When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader
“Too hot for the flames of Hades, the reappearance of this glittering and dissenting semi-lost epic is a gift. Cancelled Confessions reads so much like a contemporary sacred text on gender and desire – paper-cutting until the reader bleeds complacency — that it’s hard to believe a century has passed since its composition. Claude Cahun’s writing is stylish, playful and prescient, peopled with angel slang, flowering disavowals, God’s lipstick, and an infinite layering of masks.”
— Daisy Lafarge, author of Lovebug
“Cancelled Confessions is surrealist, trans, queer, autofiction, (anti)memoir, and also none of those things. It’s a text, and a life, felt as connection, and at the same time completely singular. Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore are the great, great aunts, or uncles, or whatever, that we wish we had — and now do.” – McKenzie Wark, author of Love and Money, Sex and Death: A Memoir