Workshop with Susan de Muth: Reading Cancelled Confessions

Saturday 7 February 2026
3.00 – 5.30 pm
📍 Torriano Meeting House, London NW5 2RX
🎟 £8 or according to pocket

Event Description
Susan de Muth will lead a close reading and discussion of Cancelled Confessions, the English translation of Claude Cahun’s Aveux non avenus. The session will explore the structure, voice, and conceptual strategies of the text, considering how Cahun’s writing negotiates identity, desire, politics, and resistance.

The workshop will focus on questions of translation, form, and interpretation, examining how Cahun’s experimental writing operates across image, prose, and philosophical reflection. Participants will be invited to read closely and reflect on the text’s continuing relevance. Suggestions and questions from participants are encouraged.

Discounted copies of the 2024 edition will be available for sale at the event, or in advance here; extracts selected for the event will be printed out for participants

About Susan de Muth

Susan de Muth is a translator, editor, and writer. She is the translator of Cancelled Confessions by Claude Cahun and many other Dada and Surrealist texts. Her work has been central to recent re-evaluations of Cahun’s writing in the English-speaking world.

Practical Information
Duration: 2.5 hours
Format: Workshop and discussion
Contact: thinmanpress@proton.me

Related Events
Juliet Jacques: Writing Practice and Process (Sunday 1 February)
Online Symposium: Adventures in Trans/Queer Modernism (Friday 27 February)

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6.00 pm
Reception with readings

This is a FREE event lasting half an hour

An informal evening reception with readings from Cancelled Confessions following on from the afternoon workshop. Participants are encouraged to deliver a short extract of their choice from the text

The Private View of the Cahun & Moore photographic exhibition will follow at 6.30 pm.