Spoken Violets

To celebrate both the release of "Sinister Wisdom 125: Glorious Defiance, work by Disabled Lesbians" and disability pride month, Sinister Wisdom staff sat down with two artists featured in Sinister Wisdom 125. Listen to Allison "Bird" Treacy and Chatham Greenfield talk about the importance of disabled lesbian literary spaces, IBS, and their creative processes! Allison Bird Treacy is a poet and literary critic whose writing grapples with issues of disabled embodiment and history, ecology, and the entanglement of both in myth and faith. Based in thePioneer Valley in Massachusetts, Bird's work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Cider Press Review, Pilgrimage, Room, and Pleiades, among others. She is the recipient of a full scholarship to the Juniper Institute and a Pushcart nomination, and she is an alumna of Home School Hudson. Bird lives with her wife, too many cats, and even more kitchen projects. https://abirdwrites.wordpress.com/ Follow @ABird_Tweets on Twitter! Chatham Greenfield is a writer and editor, a former Sinister Wisdom intern and current lesbian. They're a born and bred Floridian now living in New York with their butch best friend.They're always looking for new platforms to share their writing centering around disability, lesbianism, fat identity, generational trauma, nongenerational trauma, pop culture, and romance. Feel free to follow them on Twitter @disabledlesbian or send them an email at chathamgreenfield@gmail.com. View the issue that inspired this episode of Spoken Violets: https://www.sinisterwisdom.org/sw125 https://www.sinisterwisdom.org/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/Sinister_Wisdom FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/SinisterWisdom INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/sinister_wisdom Subscribe to our newsletter to stay in the loop on all the fun! Also, see lesbian community events at sinisterwisdom.org/events

This episode is centered on the second half of our two-parter on Issue 115: Lesbian Learning. Lesbian Learning features readings from writers like Kristy Lin Billuni and Shelonda Montgomery. Support and follow us on Instgram and Twitter. http://sinisterwisdom.org/ Notes for a Revolution, a 144 blank paged notebook with inspiring quotations for women and plenty of space for writing. The 2020 Calendar features vibrant art from Amalia Russiello, gggrimes, Mi Ok Song Bruining, Vivian Pantoja Ortega, Editha “Aster” V. Delgado, Art Twink & many others.

This episode is centered on the first half of our two-parter on Issue 115: Lesbian Learning. Lesbian Learning features readings from writers like Kristy Lin Billuni and Shelonda Montgomery. Support and follow us on Instgram and Twitter. http://sinisterwisdom.org/ Notes for a Revolution, a 144 blank paged notebook with inspiring quotations for women and plenty of space for writing. The 2020 Calendar features vibrant art from Amalia Russiello, gggrimes, Mi Ok Song Bruining, Vivian Pantoja Ortega, Editha “Aster” V. Delgado, Art Twink & many others.

An interview poet and teacher, Tara Shea Burke. From the Blue Ridge Mountains and Hampton Roads, Virginia, Tara is a writing instructor, tutor, editor, and yoga teacher who has taught and lived in Virginia, New Mexico, and Colorado. She believes in community building, encouragement, and practice-based living, writing, teaching, being, and art. http://www.tarasheaburke.com.

An interview with old 70s lesbian-feminist writer, once radical rabble-rouser, now partially disabled volunteer, Roberta Arnold. She has co-authored and assembled a group of five women’s voices in "1971 Dyke Outlaw Roadtrip," published in Sinister Wisdom 95, Reconciliations, and "A Tribute to June Arnold: Art is Politics: June Davis Arnold (1927-1981), Author, Mother, Publisher, Carpenter, Partner, Political-Activist. By Her Daughters (Roberta and Fairfax)" published in Sinister Wisdom 85, Once and Later. http://www.sinisterwisdom.org/node/28

This episode is an interview with lesbiana activist, writer, photographer, social justice attorney, martial artist, and educator Nívea Castro. Nívea talks about her experience as a lesbiana in New York and the experience of curating Sinister Wisdom: Out Latina Lesbians. https://asterixjournal.com/author/nivea-castro/ http://sinisterwisdom.org/SW97

This episode is an interview with author and poet Vi Khi Nao. Vi discusses the challenges she faced organizing an Asian Lesbians themed issue for Sinister Wisdom, lesbian representation in cinema, and gives her interesting take on the words, "Sinister Wisdom." https://www.vikhinao.com/

The second installment of Sinister Wisdom's opening, two-parter podcast episode centered on Issue 113: Radical Muses.

Sinister Wisdom's opening, two-parter podcast episode is centered on Issue 113: Radical Muses. Marking 43 years of publishing a journal for lesbians, Radical Muses features readings from writers like Lauren Stroh, Vi Khi Nao, Pat McCutcheon, Yael Dekel, and Harriet Ellenberger.