Event Videos — GALAS

Our June edition of Literary Lights 2025 reading series features Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, professor, curator and author of Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature, in conversation with award-winning writer Nancy Kricorian. 

As we speculate about the future of the Queer Armenian community, what possibilities are before us? How can we use speculative fiction to imagine and reimagine those possibilities? In this event, authors Kristin Anahit Cass and Jacob Budenz discussed how they have used speculative fiction to reflect on the present and illuminate future queer potentialities. Cass read from her new book Reparations of the Heart: Toward a Swana Futurity and Budenz read from his new book Tea Leaves. The conversation was moderated by J.P. Der Boghossian, host of the podcast This Queer Book Saved My Life (2024 GLAAD media award nominee).