Fun Places to Gay
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| | | | The Courtyard Theater at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre
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| | | | Harris Theater for Music and Dance
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| | | | Hydrate
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| | | | Royal George Theatre
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| | | | The Station House
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| | | | Victory Gardens Theater
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| | | | Profiles Theatre - The Main Stage
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| | | | Lucky Horseshoe Lounge
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| | | | Broadway Youth Center
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| | | | Innexile
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| | | | Donny's Skybox Studio Theatre
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| | | | TimeLine Theatre
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| | | | A Red Orchid Theatre
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| | | | Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place
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| | | | Mussetter-Struble Theater at Northwestern Univiversity
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| | | | Big Chicks
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| | | | Jimmez & Co.
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| | | | The Joffrey Ballet at Auditorium Theatre
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| Tuesday October 10th
Book Launch Party: Lady Killers by Tori Telfer 7:00pm
When you think of serial killers throughout history, the names that come to mind are ones like Jack the Ripper, John Wayne Gacy, and Ted Bundy. But what about Tillie Klimek, Moulay Hassan, Kate Bender? The narrative we're comfortable with is the one where women are the victims of violent crime, not the perpetrators. In fact, serial killers are thought to be so universally, overwhelmingly male that in 1998, FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood infamously declared in a homicide conference, "There are no female serial killers." Lady Killers, based on the popular online series that appeared on Jezebel and The Hairpin, disputes that claim and offers fourteen gruesome examples as evidence. Though largely forgotten by history, female serial killers rival their male counterparts in cunning, cruelty, and appetite for destruction. Each chapter explores the crimes and history of a different subject, and then proceeds to unpack her legacy and her portrayal in the media, as well as the stereotypes and sexist cliches that inevitably surround her.
Tori Telfer is a full-time freelance writer whose nonfiction pieces have appeared in Salon, VICE, Jezebel, The Hairpin, Bustle, Barnesandnoble.com, Chicago Magazine, and elsewhere. She is a Pushcart nominee and recipient of the Edwin L. Shuman Fiction Award, and her fiction has appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, The Moltov Cocktail, Watershed Review, and elsewhere. She majored in creative writing at Northwestern University and completed one year of an MFA at Indiana University before moving west. She lives in Chicago.
Event Website
Women & Children First Bookstore 5233 N Clark St Chicago, IL 60640 (773) 769-9299 Location Website
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