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Bad Language: So Mayer and Ann Morgan
Join So and Ann to discuss So’s latest book Bad Language and the general politics of language - there will also be the opportunity to ask So questions at the end of the conversation.
In Bad Language, So Mayer blends memoir and manifesto as they explore the politics of speech, while looking at how language has been used – and abused – in their own life. What is the relationship between language and sexual violence? And how can we ‘make ourselves up’ in language when words themselves are encoded by a dominant culture that insists we see ourselves as powerless listeners rather than active speakers?
Examining the semantic traps of their multi-lingual childhood – and taking in texts from the Torah to Grimms’ Fairytales, from protest bust cards to the works of Ursula K. Le Guin – Mayer asks who gets to speak, and who is forced into silence. Bad Language calls out the harm that words can do, while searching for crafty ways through which we can collectively reclaim language for protest and pleasure.
THURSDAY 29th JANUARY, 6.30pm
@ The Folkestone Bookshop, 70-72 Tontine Street
SO MAYER is a writer, editor, bookseller and organiser. Truth & Dare, their first collection of speculative fiction, was longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness and Edge Hill Short Story prizes. With Sarah Shin, they co-edited Ursula K. Le Guin, Space Crone, winner of the 2024 Locus Award for non-fiction. Bad Language is their second book for Peninsula, after A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing.
ANN MORGAN is a Folkestone-based writer, editor, and speaker whose latest book Relearning to Read: Adventures in Not-Knowing puts not-knowing centre stage and plays with what examining the gaps in our understanding and the assumptions we use to plug them can teach us about ourselves and our world. Ann is also the author of two novels - Beside Myself and Crossing Over - and delivers reading workshops alongside being a producer of the Royal Literary Fund's Collected podcast.
Refreshments available. There are various seating options, get in touch with any specific access needs or accommodations.
Your ticket price acts as a deposit against any book purchases made on the evening. If you choose to purchase a copy of the book then these will be available for collection prior to the event - we will email you when the books are ready for collection from the shop.
Join So and Ann to discuss So’s latest book Bad Language and the general politics of language - there will also be the opportunity to ask So questions at the end of the conversation.
In Bad Language, So Mayer blends memoir and manifesto as they explore the politics of speech, while looking at how language has been used – and abused – in their own life. What is the relationship between language and sexual violence? And how can we ‘make ourselves up’ in language when words themselves are encoded by a dominant culture that insists we see ourselves as powerless listeners rather than active speakers?
Examining the semantic traps of their multi-lingual childhood – and taking in texts from the Torah to Grimms’ Fairytales, from protest bust cards to the works of Ursula K. Le Guin – Mayer asks who gets to speak, and who is forced into silence. Bad Language calls out the harm that words can do, while searching for crafty ways through which we can collectively reclaim language for protest and pleasure.
THURSDAY 29th JANUARY, 6.30pm
@ The Folkestone Bookshop, 70-72 Tontine Street
SO MAYER is a writer, editor, bookseller and organiser. Truth & Dare, their first collection of speculative fiction, was longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness and Edge Hill Short Story prizes. With Sarah Shin, they co-edited Ursula K. Le Guin, Space Crone, winner of the 2024 Locus Award for non-fiction. Bad Language is their second book for Peninsula, after A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing.
ANN MORGAN is a Folkestone-based writer, editor, and speaker whose latest book Relearning to Read: Adventures in Not-Knowing puts not-knowing centre stage and plays with what examining the gaps in our understanding and the assumptions we use to plug them can teach us about ourselves and our world. Ann is also the author of two novels - Beside Myself and Crossing Over - and delivers reading workshops alongside being a producer of the Royal Literary Fund's Collected podcast.
Refreshments available. There are various seating options, get in touch with any specific access needs or accommodations.
Your ticket price acts as a deposit against any book purchases made on the evening. If you choose to purchase a copy of the book then these will be available for collection prior to the event - we will email you when the books are ready for collection from the shop.