Queertowne Live: KB Brookins and SG Huerta at First Light Books

Journey with us back into the Queertowne archives for a recording from our October 2024 event in front of a live audience at First Light Books.Hosts Mase Kerwick and Charlie Blaine sat down with SG Huerta and KB Brookins, two Texas writers doing essential work at the intersection of queerness, transness, and literature.KB Brookins is a Black, queer, and trans writer whose poetry collection Freedom House won the ALA Barbara Gittings Literature Award. Their debut memoir Pretty released in May 2024.SG Huerta is a queer Xicanx writer and managing editor at Abode Press, a Texas non-profit dedicated to antiracism and intersectionality. Their nonfiction chapbook Good Grief is forthcoming via Fifth Wheel Press.Many thanks to the team at First Light for being such incredible hosts of this event.Pull up a seat. This is a good one.Follow the show on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@queertowne⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and if you want to anonymously share something with us to be featured on an upcoming episode of Queertowne, call or text 512-900-9459.Queertowne is hosted by Mase Kerwick, Javier Ungo, Charlie Blaine, and Laura de la Fuente. Elizabeth Easterly is our production manager. Drewsky Hulett is our editor. Show art by Bee Creates. Xaria Coleman took promotional photos for this episode.