About this event
Why are so many LGBTQ+ people so terminally online?
Join us for a discussion with Chris Stedman, who has explored the intersections of queerness and digital life in his acclaimed book IRL and award-winning podcast Unread, and Queer London author Alim Kheraj.
Alim and Chris will explore how digital space can both liberate and harm LGBTQ+ people, tell stories of finding queer community online, and discuss strategies for using the internet to feel more human instead of less. Doors will open at 6 pm, with the event beginning at 6.30 sharp, and a book signing to follow.
About the team
Chris Stedman is a writer, activist, podcaster, and professor who teaches in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He is the author of IRL: Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives (2020, with a second edition in 2022) and Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious (2012). Most recently, he is the creator, writer, and host of Unread, named one of the best podcasts of 2021 by the Guardian, Vulture, HuffPost, Mashable, and the CBC, and honored by the 2022 Webby Awards.
Additionally, Chris has written popular essays for outlets including the Atlantic, Pitchfork, BuzzFeed, Vice, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Washington Post. Previously the founding director of the Yale Humanist Community and a fellow at Yale University, he also served as a humanist chaplain at Harvard University.
Alim Kheraj is a freelance writer and editor whose work has focused on the intersection of queerness and popular culture. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, GQ, the i, the Observer, i-D, Vice, Gay Times, and Time Out. His first book, Queer London, is a guide to LGBTQ+ London past and present and was published in 2021.