18:00-19:40 Screening of Orlando, My Political Biography 19:45-20:00 Afterthoughts by Simon(e) van Saarloos

Orlando, My Political Biography is a 2023 French documentary film directed by Paul B. Preciado. The director expands Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando: A Biography, in which the main character changes gender midway through the story to become a 36-year-old woman. He organises a casting and brings together 26 contemporary trans and non-binary people, aged between 8 and 70, to play Orlando. Almost a century after the book was published, Paul B. Preciado tells Virginia Woolf that her fictional character is now the root of all non-binary bodies.

Simon(e) van Saarloos is the author of Playing Monogamy, Take ‘Em Down: Scattered Monuments and Queer Forgetting, and Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto. They also work as a curator and artistic collaborator. Van Saarloos is based between Amsterdam and Berkeley, California.