Jill Soloway with Hannah Gadsby, Morgan Parker, and Special Guests – She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy.

The award-winning Amazon TV series Transparent has grown in popularity, exploring identity, love, sexuality, and the blurring of boundaries through the dynamics of a complicated and profoundly resonant American family. The show’s creator, Jill Soloway, pushed through the male-dominated landscape of Hollywood to explode mainstream ideas about gender. In the process they began to erase the lines on their own map, finding their voice as a director, show creator, and activist. Soloway joins us at Town Hall for a reflection on their emotional and professional journey with excerpts from their poignant memoir She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy. Soloway meets with award-winning Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby, creator of Nanette and presenter at the 2018 Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as award-winning author Morgan Parker—and a few other surprise guests as well! Together they explore Soloway’s evolution from straight, married mother of two to identifying as queer and nonbinary. They offer unbridled insight and a rare front seat to the inner workings of the #MeToo movement and its impact. Sit in with Soloway, Gadsby, and Parker as they call us together to ruminate on an entire generation’s thoughtful and revolutionary ideas about gender, inclusion, desire, and consent.

Jill Soloway is the Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning creator of Transparent and I Love Dick. Their first feature film, Afternoon Delight, won the 2013 Directing Award at Sundance. Their work can also be seen in Six Feet Under, How to Make It in America, and United States of Tara. An activist and artist, Jill co-founded 5050by2020, East Side Jews, and the spoken word series Sit n’ Spin. Jill lives in Los Angeles.

Tasmania’s own Hannah Gadsby has come to the world’s attention through her multi-award winning stand up show Nanette which played to sold out houses across Australia, London, Edinburgh, New York and Los Angeles before launching on Netflix in June and stopping the comedy world in its tracks. The overnight success of Hannah Gadsby was more than ten years in the making, with her award winning stand up shows a sell out fixture in festivals across Australia and the UK. She played a character called Hannah on the TV series Please Like Me and has hosted three art documentaries, inspired by comedy art lectures she created to accompany collections at major galleries.

Morgan Parker is the author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé and Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night. In 2019, Tin House will publish her third collection of poems, Magical Negro, and her young adult novel, Who Put This Song On?, will be published by Delacorte Press. Her debut book of nonfiction will be released in 2020 by OneWorld. Parker is the recipient of a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a Pushcart Prize, and a Cave Canem graduate fellow. She is the creator and host of Reparations, Live! at the Ace Hotel. With Tommy Pico, she co-curates the Poets with Attitude (PWA) reading series, and with Angel Nafis, she is The Other Black Girl Collective. She lives in Los Angeles.

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