

Wed, Aug 19
|Queer in Canton
Queer in Canton Book Club (18+)
Enjoy a lively discussion with others about "Plain Bad Heroines" by Emily M. Danforth 18 and older only
Time & Location
Aug 19, 2026, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Queer in Canton, 2663 Cleveland Ave NW, Canton, OH 44709
About the Event
Picnic at Hanging Rock + The Blair Witch Project x lesbians =
Plain Bad Heroines

Our story begins in 1902, at The Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it The Plain Bad Heroine Society.
They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard, the setting of their wildest happiness and, ultimately, of their macabre deaths. This is where their bodies are later discovered with a copy of Mary’s book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. Less than five years later, The Brookhants School for Girls closes its doors forever —but not before three more people mysteriously die on the property, each in a most…
