Event Description

Join us for a discussion with Zach Ozma, coeditor of We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan. As the first transgender man to publicly identify as gay, Lou was instrumental in surfacing the difference between sexual orientation and gender identity. He pioneered support for trans men, and through his activism created some of the first spaces and resources for trans people that were rooted in joy and affirmation. People of all genders will be invited to consider, like Sullivan, how they might reimagine masculinity to create their own interpretation of happiness rooted in love.

Zach Ozma is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. He is the author of Etiquette In The Arts (Spiral Editions), Black Dog Drinking from an Outdoor Pool (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019), and with Ellis Martin co-edited We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan (Nightboat Books, 2019). He has exhibited at ArtYard, Zach’s Crab Shack, Root Division, 1122 Gallery, and CTRL+SHFT, and other locations. Raised by folk musicians in Seattle and the Santa Cruz mountains, he came of age as an artist in Oakland at California College of the Arts and in the East Bay experimental poetry scene. Ozma holds a BFA from CCA in Community Arts and lives in the Philadelphia area.

Masculinity Action Project is a community education and violence prevention initiative that brings men and masculine-identifying individuals into movements for gender justice.