Sunday September 22, 2013 at Queen's Park Circle, 11am - 6pm
Karleen Pendleton Jiménez
Event Info: Vibrant Voices of Ontario Tent at 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM
Karleen Pendleton Jiménez is the screenwriter of the award-winner film Tomboy, and the author for the children’s book Are You a Boy or a Girl?, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. She is a professor of education at Trent University. Raised in LA, having lived in Berkeley and San Diego, she now makes her home in Toronto. How To Get A Girl Pregnant was a finalist for a Lambda Award earlier this year.
Books
How to Get a Girl Pregnant
Karleen Pendleton Jiménez has known that she was gay since she was three years old and wanted to have a baby for almost as long. But how is a butch Chicana lesbian supposed to get sperm? Picking up men at nightclubs and restaurants? Asking queer male friends for a donation? Using sperm banks dominated by blue-eyed and blond-haired donors?
This candid and humorous memoir follows Karleen’s challenges, adventures, successes, failures, humiliations, and triumphs while attempting to fulfill her dream of giving birth to a child. It is a confession of desire, humility, and the search for perfection.
Tightrope Books - $19.95 - Non-fiction
