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Gabe Montesanti explores Drag Thing: A Memoir of Mania and Mirrors, recounting their journey to becoming the \u201cdrag thing,\u201d Fender Bender.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Discover the hard-earned truths of being queer in the American Midwest, all while living with a treatment-resistant bipolar disorder. Gabe Montesanti\u2019s Drag Thing: A Memoir of Mania and Mirrors<\/em> recounts their journey to becoming the \u201cdrag thing,\u201d Fender Bender, and the difficulties balancing their art in a political environment where being visibly queer is more and more dangerous. Diane Seuss says, \u201cSet against the backdrop of escalating violence against queer bodies, Gabe\u2019s story is one of the enticements of art as a platform of survival and its perilous intensity, as she discovers she is neither king nor queen but a thing<\/em>, reigning over the grand in-between.\u201d Sponsored by Women & Gender Studies.  <\/em><\/p>\n

This event is part of the Fall for the Book Festival, which runs from October 6-10. View the full schedule of free events online. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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