Hugo Tepest is coming to Basel! He will be giving a reading from his essay “Sind Penisse real?” (Piper, 2025).

When: Thursday, March 26 at 7:30 p.m.
Where: sipp, Carambolage
Doors open: 7 p.m.
Moderator: Nuria Sublet
Language: Reading and discussion in German

“For as long as I can remember, I was convinced that without a penis, I couldn't be a man.” Evan is in his mid-thirties when he begins his transition. In the chaos of his new masculinity, he searches for answers to what penises mean to him, to his body, to his self-image. To who he was, who he is, and who he can be. In society and in bed. To find out, he talks to people—with and without penises—about fears and power, about cultural history and its significance, about sexuality, size, and fantasies. And he writes disarmingly candidly about a body part that is much more than that. In “Sind Penisse real?”, sexual desire meets the constraints of prevailing norms, literature and theory meet faith, the sentient subject meets patriarchy, centuries-old gender concepts meet radical openness.

The event is free and no registration is required. Early arrival is recommended.
💞We look forward to seeing you there 💞

©Lee Everett Thieler