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MacDowell Fellow, Chavisa Woods, is the author of four books, including Things To Do When You're Goth in the Country, and 100 Times, (A Memoir of Sexism). Chavisa was the recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award, the Kathy Acker Award in Writing, and Cobalt ‘s Zora Neale Hurston Prize for Fiction. Her work has received praise from the New York Times, The LA Times, Publisher's Weekly, The Stranger, and many other media outlets. She currently serves as the Executive Director of a nonprofit art and literary organization, A Gathering of the Tribes. Her literary work primarily focuses on the lives of those living in conservative, rural America. She has appeared on The Young Turks, NPR's 1A in and her work had appeared in Tin House, LitHub, Electric Lit, Full Stop, The Brooklyn Rail, The Evergreen Review, New York Quarterly, and many other publications.
In this episode, author and activist Bill Fletcher, Jr. and author Chavisa Woods discuss Bernie Sanders' frontrunner status in the Democratic primary, the campaign's efforts to build a diverse coalition in 2020, and whether or not those efforts have worked. Fletcher talks to Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about how Sanders has altered his approach to reaching out to black voters; Woods compares the Sanders and Warren campaigns, reflects on their appeal to women, and analyzes how voters talk politics online. To hear the full episode, subscribe to the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Guests: Bill Fletcher, Jr. Chavisa Woods Selected readings for the episode: Bill Fletcher, Jr. Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice “They're Bankrupting Us!” And 20 Other Myths about Unions The Man Who Fell from the Sky Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral (co-editor) To the Point (The Progressive Magazine, February 3, 2014) Chavisa Woods 100 Times: A Memoir of Sexism The Albino Album: A Novel Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country The Memoir I Never Wanted to Write (LitHub, June 26, 2019) Others The Autobiography of Malcolm X Marx Engels Dream Defenders' endorsement of Bernie Sanders Hey, Obama boys: Back off already! (Rebecca Traister in Salon, April 14, 2008) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lambda-nominated and Shirley Jackson Award-winning author Chavisa Woods presents one hundred personal stories of sexism, harassment, discrimination, and assault. Recounting her experiences with gender-based discrimination, unsolicited groping, and sexual violence--beginning in childhood, through the present--Woods lays out clear and unflinching vignettes that build in intensity as the number of times grows. Individually, and especially taken as a whole, these stories amount to powerful proof that sexual violence and discrimination are never just one-time occurrences, but part of a constant battle women and non-binary people face every day. In these extraordinary pages, sexual violence and gendered-discrimination happen to people regardless of their age, in all parts of society, in rural and urban areas alike, in the US and abroad, from the time they are very young and through adulthood. Demonstrating how often people are conditioned to endure sexism and harassment, and how thoroughly men feel entitled to women’s spaces and bodies, 100 Times challenges the common, damaging belief that sexism and misogyny are no longer problems within our society. Woods is in conversation with michelle tea, the author of the young adult novels Mermaid in Chelsea Creek and Girl at the Bottom of the Sea, as well as numerous books for grown-ups.
My guest is Chavisa Woods. Her newest book is 100 Times: A Memoir of Sexism (https://www.amazon.com/100-Times-Memoir-Chavisa-Woods/dp/1609809130). In it this award winning author presents one hundred true stories of sexism, harassment, discrimination, and assault. Recounting her experiences with sexist discrimination, sexual harassment, and sexual violence—beginning in childhood, through the present—Woods lays out clear and unflinching personal vignettes that build in intensity as the number of times grows. Individually, and especially taken as a whole, these stories amount to powerful proof that sexual violence and discrimination are never just one-time occurrences, but part of a constant battle all women face every day. In these extraordinary pages, sexual violence and sexist discrimination occur regardless of age, in all spheres of society, in rural and urban areas alike, in the US and abroad, from Woods' youth through adulthood. Demonstrating how often people are conditioned to endure sexism and harassment, and how thoroughly men feel entitled to women’s spaces and bodies, 100 Times forces the reader to witness the myriad ways in which sexism and misogyny continuously shape women’s lives, and are built-in facets of our society. Special Guest: Chavisa Woods.
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Chavisa Woods' 100 Times: A Memoir of Sexism is a book that, as our British friends say, does exactly what it says on the tin—chronicling 100 separate incidents of sexist behavior that Woods has faced in her lifetime, a pattern of verbal, emotional, and physical abuse (including sexual assault) that starts when she's five years old and continues to the present day. It's a patten that, I speculated, just about any woman should find instantly recognizable, to which Woods replied: "I keep saying a lot of memoirs are written because the author thinks it's an exceptional story. I actually felt like I needed to write this memoir because my story is not exceptional at all, and I wanted to show how pervasive sexism is in multiple spheres of society... I just wanted to show how pervasive it is everywhere and how it affects us constantly throughout our lives."
While many writers pen memoirs because of something particularly distinctive or unusual about their lives, the reason Chavisa Woods gives for writing hers is pretty much the opposite. “I felt that it was incumbent for me to put this on the page ... because my life is not exceptional,” Woods, the author of “100 Times: A Memoir of Sexism,” says. “And I think when people hear that you’ve experienced 100 formative incidents of sexism, maybe the first reaction is, ‘Oh, I can’t believe that it influences your life so much.’ But I think when most women stop and think about discrimination, harassment, groping, sexual violence and also microagressions, you’ll see that you could easily compile [such a list]. ”
"Most of the #MeToo movement has centered around sexual assault and naming big men, but the men in my life are not prominent famous men. They're everyday, working class men," author Chavisa Woods told us.Want to support 1A? Give to your local public radio station and subscribe to this podcast. Have questions? Find us on Twitter @1A.
Writer Chavisa Woods is a Shirley Jackson Award-winning author and three-time Lambda Finalist, and she joins me to discusses her new book, 100 Times: A Memoir of Sexism. In her book, Woods shares one hundred personal stories of sexism, harassment, discrimination, and assault. In our conversation, Woods shares many of the same experiences she shares in her memoir, recounting her experiences with sexist discrimination, sexual harassment, and sexual violence—beginning in childhood, through the present Also if you enjoy the Electorette, please subscribe and leave a 5-star review on iTunes. Also, please spread the word by telling your friends, family and colleagues about The Electorette! WANT MORE ELECTORETTE? Follow the Electorette on social media. Electorette Facebook Electorette Instagram Electorette Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chavisa Woods in conversation with Bernard Meisler. Chavisa Woods is a New York-based literary fiction author, and poet. She is the author of three books. The first, Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind, (2009) is both a short fiction collection and a novel. Woods’ second work of fiction, The Albino Album, a novel, […] The post Episode 5 – Chavisa Woods appeared first on Sensitive Skin Magazine.
First Draft interview with Chavisa Woods
Chavisa Woods is the author of Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country and Other Stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
My guest today is Chavisa Woods. She's a Brooklyn based award winning literary writer. Her most recent book, "Things To Do When You're Goth In The Country & Other Stories" comes out in May of 2017.