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Sat, 14 Jan
|Zoom & In person
Book Club - January
Please RSVP at least 48 hours before if you're a first timer so we have enough time to share the details with you.
Time & Location
14 Jan 2023, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm AEDT
Zoom & In person
About the event
In this special session, Shed member and book club hero, Tobi Evans will lead us in a discussion of his new book, Reimagining Masculinity and Violence in Game of Thrones and Songs of Fire and Ice.
If you love queer readings of pop culture texts or you're a fan of Game of Thrones or the books behind the series, this one's for you!
Content warning: strong violence in all forms. So definitely skip this one if that's not for you.
Author's blurb:
In this examination of violence and masculinity in George R. R. Martin's fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire and its television adaptation Game of Thrones, Tobi Evans offers a queer reading that revises the idea that the texts glorify violence. Moving from monstrous men characters and sovereigns to female, disabled, and genderqueer masculinities, Violent Fantasies understands the novels and television series to offer a complex and…