Community is everything now. Come out for the Endometriosis Foundation of America’s Patient Day in NYC! Honored to give a keynote for the people who matter most in women’s healthcare—the patients! Virtual or in person, use code EVE15 for 15% off registration: https://www.endofound.org/patientday

Free webinar! 3-4 pm eastern time, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026

Teenage girls are facing a significant mental health crisis, marked by alarming increases in feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and suicidal ideation. This crisis stems from a complex mix of evolutionary and environmental factors, including hormonal changes during puberty, social media pressures, academic stress, and societal expectations. Recognizing these challenges is essential to early intervention, open communication, and access to appropriate mental health resources.

In this edWebinar, authors Cat Bohannon [Eve (Adapted for Young Adults): How the Female Body Shaped Human Evolution; Bright Matter Books and Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution; Vintage] and Donna Jackson Nakazawa, (Girls on the Brink: Helping Our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression, and Social Media; Harmony) in conversation with Carla Sosenko (I’ll Look So Hot in a Coffin: And Other Thoughts I Used to Have About My Body; The Dial Press) will explore how mental health impacts student success both in and out of the classroom. The session will offer practical tools and strategies to support educators’ professional growth and help them respond effectively to this ongoing crisis.

The webinar aims to provide guiding resources that support educators and promote healthy development, resilience, and successful learning.

https://penguinrandomhousesecondaryeducation.com/2026/02/09/join-us-for-a-free-webinar-the-mental-health-of-teenage-girls-causes-challenges-and-support/

An afternoon with the good folk at Chautauqua. Come by!

Hoffman Arts Center in Manzanita. We won’t talk about the Goonies, promise… though maybe with the NIH as it’s been lately, could use a lil’ of that Goonies spirit? https://hoffmanarts.org/events/an-author-event-with-cat-bohannon/

Cat and Kelly at the Ri with Moms on Mars! Getting knocked up in space… what could go wrong?

Moms on Mars with Kelly Weinersmith! Oh Britain, this is gonna be the best…

Brightthink with Sally Howard! Drinks and bodies, folks—the best combination.

Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA. https://www.harvard.com/event/cat-bohannon

Educator night! How the heck should we use Eve in the classroom for 8-12th graders? With Debbie Levy. Sponsored by Charm City Books and the Baltimore County Public Library. Friends School of Baltimore's Forbush Auditorium, 5114 N. Charles St. (ample and free parking). Get tickets here: ccb-educatorsnight.eventbrite.com

On Stage at Johns Hopkins University! We’ll be connecting the story of female evolution to the crisis in modern women’s healthcare and why it matters—so damn much—that we keep funding basic research into the biology of sex differences. Let’s keep gathering while they still let us. https://publichealth.jhu.edu/events/2025/03/11/an-evolutionary-journey-into-modern-womens-health-medicine

Politics & Prose! What is there to say in DC now about the body? What will we be allowed to say, then? Still, we gather—come join. https://politics-prose.com/cat-bohannon If not in DC, then here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp3_hvppUMU&ab_channel=PoliticsandProse

On Stage w/ Eleanor Johnson, author of the upcoming Scream with Me, a baller book about women and horror! We’re gonna talk about why female reproductive organs should be called “contraceptive organs” — vagina dentata got nuthin’ on what really goes on down there. (Also a PSA for why IUDs actually work, why the history of contraception is actually just the history of female health care—kind of forever—and some good laughs.) Register here: https://www.ircpl.columbia.edu/calendar/cat-bohannon

Livestream for eCornell with Kate Manne! Register here: https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/overview/K030625/

Is Fat Female? Live @ Cornell with Kate Manne! We'll be talking about the evolution of the female body, especially adipose tissue (fat!) and what we should think about all that in 2025 (of all the freakin’ years to be an American female).  And yes, we'll totally talk about Ozempic...  you can bet your long-evolved fat ass we will. 132 Goldwin Smith Hall. https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/02/bohannon-manne-event-focuses-female-body-image-evolution

Pittsburgh Arts Council: We’re cooking up something special for you, Pittsburgh. Time to revisit the story of what women are and where we come from—right in time for Women’s History Month! https://pittsburghlectures.org/lectures/cat-bohannon/ , https://pittsburghlectures.org/programs/ten-evenings/

Virtual event! Peculiar Bookclub with Brandy Schillace. They’re going to have an apple-laced themed cocktail, naturally… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebhi1CN7MKo&ab_channel=BrandySchillace

Third Place Books Ravenna! Launching the YA edition of Eve just in time for women’s history month—let’s tell it while they still let us, ladies… On stage with Katie Campbell, host of the KUOW book club. And guess what: cake and wine! Courtesy of PNW Booksellers, who were kind enough to give Eve one of their yearly awards. https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/cat-bohannon

Brainwash Festival! Details TK. https://brainwashfestival.nl/en/

Royal Society Trivedi Prize Gala: Cat will join the rest of the shortlist for the 2024 Royal Society Trivedi Prize. (No, we don’t know the winner, but just being on the list is winning, y’all.)

Seattle Art Source: In celebration of SAS’s new gallery exhibit about the female body, Cat will talk about the science of sex differences in perception, its place in the history of art (including the paleolithic, y’all!) and that time Cat was an art model in college.