Zondag 22 november | 5 pm – 6.30 pm
Doors open at 16.45 pm,
the programme starts at 5 pm
Free entrance, register using the form below
On Sunday, November 22, Boekwinkel Savannah Bay in Utrecht is organizing another special edition of our Lazy Queer Sunday. To conclude Trans Awareness Week, we celebrate the visibility and strength of trans people in our own unique way.
Our special guest is writer, activist, and community builder Alejandra Ortiz, who will be presenting her new novel Once Upon a Time There Were Dolls. In this book, three friends go on a road trip to Paris. Along the way, they reminisce about their friendship in both beautiful and difficult times, and look back at everything that has changed in their lives. It is a story about friendship, grief, and the power of community. With a keen sense of drama and humor, Ortiz shows that the lives of trans women do not consist solely of struggle, but also of love, joy, mutual connection, and everyday adventures.
During this Lazy Queer Sunday, we will sit down with Alejandra Ortiz to talk about her new book, the importance of visibility, chosen family, friendship, love, and resilience. The program consists of an interview, the book presentation, and a book signing. This event will be mostly held in English, the book is published in Dutch. Naturally, there will also be plenty of opportunity to meet, catch up, and enjoy a relaxed queer Sunday afternoon together.
Drop by, meet Alejandra Ortiz, and join us in celebration to wrap up Trans Awareness Week. Celebrate the stories and voices that deserve to be seen and heard. Everyone is welcome!
In *Once upon a Time There Were Dolls*, three friends take a road trip to Paris. Their lives look completely different from the last time they were there together. They revisit memories—at once bitter and tender—of a life they once shared, a life that, not so long ago, was irrevocably altered.
With a keen sense of drama, Alejandra Ortiz writes about friendship, desire, and sorrow. The life of a “doll” is no bed of roses; yet, no matter what happens or how bleak things may seem, there is always a close-knit community to fall back on.
Alejandra Ortiz grew up in Mexico and has lived in the Netherlands since 2015. She is a writer, researcher, and activist dedicated to the visibility and empowerment of trans individuals, particularly trans people of color and trans refugees. Through initiatives like her collective Papaya Kuir, she builds communities where queer and trans people can find and support one another. In 2022, her first, autobiographical book The Truth Will Set Me Free (De waarheid zal me bevrijden) was published. For her social commitment and activism, she received the Winq Community Award in 2023.
Naast de mooiste Nederlandse en Engelstalige literatuur vind je bij ons de leukste cadeautjes, een uitgebreide selectie aan poëzie en de belangrijkste boeken over LHBTQIA+, genderstudies, dekolonisatie, natuur & klimaat.
