Join us for a reading and conversation with two influencial voices whose work has long given voice to the lesbian experience with honesty and courage

June Thomas is a journalist and podcaster. She previously served as senior managing producer for Slate’s podcasts and was the founding editor of Outward, Slate’s LGBTQ section. She is the author of A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women’s Culture. Her writing has appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, Marie Claire, T Magazine, and The Advocate. After spending forty years in America she now resides in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Judith Barrington is the author of Virginia’s Apples: Collected Memoirs, published in October 2024. Her earlier memoir, Lifesaving, won a Lambda Literary Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. She is also the author of the best-selling craft book Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art, as well as five poetry collections. Her memoirs and essays have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Creative Nonfiction, ZYZZYVA, Narrative, and the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, and have been listed as “Notable Essays” in The Best American Essays. She lives in Portland, Oregon.