Join us Sunday, January 19th @ 2pm inside Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery for a comic book release and Drag Story Hour. We are celebrating the release of  Socrates and Me, a comic that dives into the magic of Per Sia’s Drag Story Hour, where a powerful moment of realization unfolds about the importance of inclusive stories for kids. This event features a special Drag Story Hour performance by author, Per Sia and illustrator, Ali R. Blake.

This comic is part of a larger, dazzling project called Occasional Paper Series Issue 52: The Adventures of Trans Educators, led by Harper B. Keenan, Lee Iskander, and Rachel Marie-Crane Williams. Come for the comics, stay for the drag, and let’s make some queer history!

Per Sia

With a pedigree from weekly performances at the late, iconic Esta Noche, her trajectory has gone on to include art curation, stand-up, television, and maybe a quinceañera or two, in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and México.  Currently she is a regular performer in the nationally acclaimed "Drag Story Hour" as well as an educator in residence at an after school arts program in the San Francisco Unified School District profiled on KQED Arts,  National Public Radio and CNN.

Ali R. Blake

Ali R. Blake is a teaching artist and education researcher cultivating spaces for people to imagine and create the worlds we want to live in together— definitely more queer and more trans worlds! When Ali is not drawing, reading, writing, gardening, singing and dancing while cooking, or cuddling with cats, they organize a queer and trans communal clothing making space rooted in multidimensional struggles for self-determination. If you're lucky, you may meet them performing, too, as Al iteration.