Faux Queen: Book Release & Signing Party at Oasis in San Francisco CA

The official book release celebration for Faux Queen: a Life in Drag by Monique Jenkinson

 

Co-presented by City Lights Bookstore & Publishers and Oasis

 

Saturday, February 19 - 6-9PM - Oasis - 298 11th Street - SOMA San Francisco

 

Join City Lights Bookstore & Publishers and Oasis to celebrate the publication of a uniquely San Francisco story - Faux Queen: a Life in Drag by Monique Jenkinson (aka Fauxnique) from Amble Press. Festivities include reading by the author, a drag show featuring a few of San Francisco’s finest and an informal meet-and-greet and book signing. Books will be available for purchase through City Lights at the event.

 

Faux Queen joyously chronicles Monique Jenkinson’s creation of her drag persona Fauxnique, the people and cultural practices that crash her identity into being, her journey through one of the most experimental moments in queer cultural history and her rise through the nightlife underground to become the first cisgender woman crowned as a pageant-winning drag queen. Jenkinson finds authenticity through the glee of drag artifice and articulation through the immediacy of performing bodies. She pens a valentine to gay men and their irreverent culture while relaying the making of an open-minded feminist. Faux Queen posits that it might be possible for us to come together in difference on the sticky dancefloor.

 

21 & over – i.d., proof of vaccination & mask required. Tickets $10 (no one turned away for lack of funds at door)

 

Advance tickets at sfoasis.com