**Love Persevering: On Normporn and Grief**

Karen Tongson • USC Dornsife

May 5th @ 6pm • Daniel Family Commons

In this lecture, Karen Tongson discusses her book Normporn, a meditation on letting go of grief that began on an intimate scale of (self) examination and expanded to a broader political and cultural inquiry into the television that soothes queer viewers—sometimes against our better aesthetic and political judgment. In the wake of the book's release, however, new traumas both personal and political emerged, posing a challenge to the author's cruel optimism about the "end" of cycles of loss and bereavement. The presentation is an honest assessment of the world bound by the book, and what shattered its resolutions.

Energy and Exhaustion
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