Podcasts about Sinister Wisdom

Meet Julie Enszer, editor of Sinister Wisdom, dyke poetry superstar, and protector of the lesbian archives. Julie and I speak about shared queer cultures, lesbian feminist publishing, and all of the amazing queer archiving projects Julie is involved in. We also speak about the importance of sharing knowledge and practices of resistance, especially at a time like the present moment. Since Julie is particularly invested in sharing these practices internationally, she is part of the team that is bringing the Lesbian Lives conference to New York in October 2025… Tune in for the details.  References:https://julierenszer.com/Sinister Wisdom https://www.sinisterwisdom.org/@sinister_wisom (IG)Julie Enszer's The Pinko Commie Dyke (Indolent Books, 2024) with illustrations by Isabel Clare PaulOutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture (ed. Julie Enszer and Elena Gross, Rutgers UP, 2022)The Complete Works of Pat Parkers (ed. Julie Enszer, Sinister Wisdom/A Midsummer Night's Press, 2016)Fire-Rimmed Eden: Selected Poems by Lynn Lonidier (ed. Julie Enszer, Sinister Wisdom, 2023)Sinister Wisdom 128: Trans/FeminismsReveal Digital Archiveshttps://about.jstor.org/revealdigital/The Lesbian Poetry Archive http://lesbianpoetryarchive.org/Feminist Bookstore News Archivehttps://www.lesbianpoetryarchive.org/fbnCarol SeajayWomen in Print MovementCatherine NicholsonHarriet DesmoinesHillary ClintonLesbian Lives ConferenceElla Ben HagaiThe Journal of Lesbian StudiesOlu JenzenCLAGS (The Centre for LGBTQ Studies, CUNY)https://www.gc.cuny.edu/clags-center-lgbtq-studiesMatt BrimGrace Nichols' The Fat Black Woman's PoemsHeresieshttp://heresiesfilmproject.org/archive/Cheryl Clarkehttps://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/cheryl-clarkeTim Retzloffhttps://michiganlgbtqremember.com/842-2/Alison Bechdel's Fun HomeMarilyn Hacker's Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons (1986)  Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:1.      How do we build lesbian and feminist communities? Which examples does Julie give?2.      What are the Reveal Digital Archives?3.      What types of writing does Sinister Wisdom publish and what would Julie like to see more of? In which year was the journal launched?4.      How does Julie describe the importance of lesbian archives?5.      How might archives help us with lesbian, queer and trans oganising?  

Lesbians who read: gather around and press play! On this episode, Madison chatted with Emmanuelle Rambeua & Gabe Tejada, co-editors of Sinister Wisdom: A multi cultural lesbian literary and art journal.We spoke aboutthe unique nature of an intersectional queer women's publication,the special contribution it makes to our communal efforts to resist and survive patriarchyhow being a communal, volunteer-driven publication influences the journal's purpose and contentthe key ways Sinister Wisdom seeks to contribute to the ongoing development of queer culture and queer politics.Madison also outlined what lies in store, in the form of a new Trans-creator Radio Show on 3CR, starting on 14th March.Those who are interested in submitting for publication for the Body of Land edition of Sinister Wisdom can find details at https://www.sinisterwisdom.org/node/863Songs: Yes All Cops, by WorriersGrand Central Prt 1, by DJ SprinklesCommunity Links:Friday Social Group (Speed Friending and Show & Tell), 14th March, 5 - 7pm, Affirmation Station, 360 Lygon St, Brunswick East. https://events.humanitix.com/friday-social-group-elcxm264?hxchl=hex-pflBonez Festival, Alternative Queer Party, 15th March, 3pm - 3am, 18+ only, The Penny Black, 420 Sydney Rd, Brunswick. Tickets at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/bonez-festival-tickets-1222947772709?aff=erelexpmltTrans-creator Community Zine Edition 2, out now at Hares and Hyenas @ Vic Pride Centre, 3CR @ Fitzroy, Affirmation Station @ Brunswick East, Thorne Harbour Health @ Abbotsford, Thorne Harbour Country @ Bendigo.Trans-creator Radio will launch on 3CR on Friday 14th March, 9 - 10am.

Te text of my essay about Berenice Abbott appears on my author blog: The Lens of Eternity in Sinister Wisdom: #lgbt #BereniceAbbott #amreading #writingcommunity | Janet Mason, author (wordpress.com)

It's my pleasure to post a review of The Highest Apple – Sappho and the Lesbian Poetic Tradition by Judy Grahn (in 2024) re-published by Sinister Wisdom as part of its Sapphic Classic line. The video of the review is above (on YouTube ) and the text of the review is below. The Highest Apple in review — how #lesbian literature can change lives | Janet Mason, author (wordpress.com)

The Year of Nos Project is a outcropping of the work of Shannon Ivey, coach and creative. The interviews for this part of the #whatshesaidproject bring all the boys, girls, and nonbinary folks to the yard to discuss creativity, resilience, and smart hacks to moving your life and creative work forward. Canadian-American poet Dr. Sarah Cooper is a Canadian-American scholar and poet. She is the author of two poetry collections: Permanent Marker (Paper Nautilus, 2020) and 89% (Clemson University Press 2022).  Her poems also appear in Lunch, Sinister Wisdom, Iron Horse and in Poem-A-Day. As a professor she has received the Holman Award for teaching, was a 2021 LGBTQ+ Faculty Excellence Award winner, a 2022 Gentry Award winner for teaching excellence and the 2022 Tee A. Corrine Fellow at the University of Oregon. Currently she is the Assistant Director of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies as well as a professor in the Interdisciplinary Studies Department Clemson University. FMI and to connect with Dr. Cooper: http://www.sarahcooperpoet.com https://www.instagram.com/scoops_scoops/ FMI on Shannon Ivey: www.shannon-ivey.com https://www.instagram.com/yesitsshannonivey --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/whatshesaidproject/message

Ami Irmen's favorite storyteller was her grandfather, who set her on the path to becoming an educator and a writer. Her first traditionally-published novel is coming soon from Scarsdale Publishing, while she self-published another novel, Wherever Would I Be. Her short stories and poems have appeared in Sinister Wisdom, The Copperfield Review, and Glass: A Journal of Poetry. Ami teaches writing at Kishwaukee College.   In the latest episode of the Make Meaning Podcast, host Lynne Golodner interviews Ami Irmen about her creative process, how to turn an idea into a book, which publishing route to take and how to fund a book on Kickstarter.    In this episode, Lynne and Ami discuss:  Teaching writing at the university level The writing process Finding a publisher without an agent Finding time to write when you work another job Jane Adeny Memorial School for Girls in Kenya Traditional publishing vs. self-publishing Finding a cover designer The teachers who inspire us to write Finding community with other writers Period Poverty Why having a good editor is so important   Links and Resources:  Peaker Writers My Peak Challenge University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Friends of JAMS  Northern Illinois University Artist Pascal Campion  Revise & Resub University of Detroit-Mercy Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Find Ami Irmen: Website Twitter LinkedIn Instagram Blog     If you enjoyed this episode, you'll like these other Make Meaning Podcast episodes: Episode 145- CL Walters -  Young Adult & New Adult Fiction from Hawai'i Episode 142 – Announcing Scotia Road Books Episode 136 - Tammy Pasterick - Writing & Publishing Your Way Episode 113 – Ramona Pintea – How to Make Art a Path for Serving Others Episode 107 – The Hon. Jan Tinetti – How to Eliminate Period Poverty

Welcome to another engaging episode of Swerve South! Today, Jaime Harker is in conversation with Julie Enszer, discussing the indomitable spirit and legacy of the late poet Minnie Bruce Pratt. Journey through their personal experiences with Pratt's poetic world and reflect upon her pivotal role within feminist communities.For full details, visit: https://sarahisomcenter.org/swerve-south/2023/10/26/season-7-episode-3-remembering-minnie-bruce-pratt

EPISODE 1535: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, author of BIG GIRL, about whether the American Republic was founded on anti-fat people principles Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is the author of the novel Big Girl, a New York Times Editors' Choice selection and a best books pick from Time, Essence, Vulture, Ms., Goodreads, Booklist, Library Reads, and SheReads.com. Her previous books are The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora (University of Illinois Press, 2021), winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association, and the short story collection, Blue Talk and Love (2015), winner of the Judith Markowitz Award for Fiction from Lambda Literary. Mecca holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Temple University, and a B.A. in Afro-American Studies from Smith College. In her fiction, she explores the intellectual, emotional, and bodily lives of young Black women through voice, music, and hip-hop inflected magical realist techniques. Her short stories have appeared in Best New Writing, Kenyon Review, American Fiction: Best New Stories by Emerging Writers, Prairie Schooner, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize Stories, BLOOM: Queer Fiction, Art, Poetry and More, TriQuarterly, Feminist Studies, All About Skin: Short Stories by Award-Winning Women Writers of Color, DC Metro Weekly, Baobab: South African Journal of New Writing, and many others. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she is the winner of the Charles Johnson Fiction Award, the Glenna Luschei Fiction Award, the James Baldwin Memorial Playwriting Award, the 2021 Pride Index National Arts and Culture award, and honors from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, The Yaddo Colony, the Hedgebrook Writers' Retreat, Lambda Literary, the Publishing Triangle, and the Center for Fiction in New York City, where she received an inaugural Emerging Writers Fellowship. A proud native of Harlem, NY, Sullivan's scholarly work explores the connections between sexuality, identity, and creative practice in contemporary African Diaspora literatures and cultures. Her scholarly and critical writing has appeared in New York Magazine's The Cut, American Literary History, Feminist Studies, Black Futures, Teaching Black, American Quarterly, College Literature, Oxford African American Resource Center, Palimpsest: Journal of Women, Gender and the Black International, Jacket2, Public Books, GLQ: Lesbian and Gay Studies Quarterly, Sinister Wisdom, The Scholar and Feminist, Women's Studies, College Literature, The Rumpus, BET.com, Ebony.com, TheRoot.com, Ms. Magazine online, The Feminist Wire, and others. Her debut novel, Big Girl (W.W. Norton & Co./ Liveright 2022) was selected as the July 2022 Phenomenal Book Club pick, a WNYC Radio 2022 Debut pick, and a New York Public Library “Book of the Day.” Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the Mad in America podcast this week, we chat with author and educator Tanya Frank. Tanya has worked as a college and university lecturer in the UK and taught middle school children, teens, and elders in the US. She has also trained as a wildlife guide in California and has been an advocate for people with lived experience of psychosis. Tanya's work has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, as well as appearing in literary journals, including KCET Departures and Sinister Wisdom. In this interview, we talk about Tanya's recently released book entitled Zig-Zag Boy: Madness, Motherhood and Letting Go, which chronicles the experiences of her son Zach, who experienced psychosis as a 19-year-old. The book is a heartfelt and beautifully written account of dealing with mental distress and speaks movingly and honestly about the family's struggles with broken healthcare systems in the US and the UK. *** Thank you for being with us to listen to the podcast and read our articles this year. MIA is funded entirely by reader donations. If you value MIA, please help us continue to survive and grow. To find the Mad in America podcast on your preferred podcast player, click here

This week I welcome Hannah Leffingwell to the show. We'll be talking about her recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, "The Academic Career is Broken" and the need for fundamental change in higher education. She argues, "We are in the midst of a crisis in academe, to be sure, but it's not an economic crisis. It's a crisis of faith. The question is not just whether our institutions pay faculty fairly, but whether any wage is worth the subservience and sacrifice that modern higher ed requires." No longer will hopeful stories about "revision" do the job. "We need a revolution, not a revision."  Hannah is a writer, historian, and PhD Candidate at NYU. Her dissertation in progress, “Becoming Lesbian: Sex, Politics, and Culture in Transatlantic Circulation, 1970-1998,” chronicles the spread of lesbian culture in the United States and Europe in the wake of Women's Liberation. Her research has been published in Gender & History, and her writing has been featured in Jacobin, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Public Seminar, Eurozine, and Sinister Wisdom. Her first chapbook, A Thirst for Salt, was published by Gazing Grain Press in 2018. LINKS: Follow Hannah on Twitter: @hanleffingwell | https://twitter.com/hanleffingwell "The Academic Career is Broken," The Chronicle of Higher Ed | https://bit.ly/3JkVOYS "I Love Higher Education. It Isn't Loving Me Back," Jacobin | https://bit.ly/3DhDyf5 You can support this show by becoming a patron for as little as $5/month at https://www.patreon.com/rcpress. Don't Let Paul Martino & Friends Buy Our Schools and push extremist politics in our community. Raging Chicken has teamed up with LevelField to launch a truly community-rooted PAC to invest in organizing, support local and state-wide progressive candidates, and unmask the toxic organizations injecting our communities with right-wing extremism. We're putting small-dollar donations to work to beat back the power of Big Money.  You can get more information and drop your donation at  https://ragingchicken.levelfield.net/. Join our Discord to continue the conversation all week long: https://discord.gg/BnjRNz3u

SOREN LIT...A Southern Renaissance of women, femmes, and/or non-binary creatives exploring the lingering South... SOREN LIT. 2023: Verlena Johnson, MFA www.sorenlit.com Producer & Founding Editor: Melodie J. Rodgers, MFA Verlena L. Johnson was born in Chicago and grew up in Madison and Beloit Wisconsin. She earned a B.A. in Sculpture and a M.A. in Afro-American Studies with an emphasis in Art History from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a M.F.A. in Sculpture from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Verlena has also studied wood carving with Ghanaian Master Wood-carvers, as well as, at the Haystack Mountain School of Craft and Penland School of Craft. She has exhibited her artwork in Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, Oakland, amongst other places. Her artwork has appeared on the cover of the book Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison and the journal Sinister Wisdom. She has taught studio art and art history to children and adults in community centers and colleges. Her children's book, The Adventures of Kai and the Magical Machines was published in 2018. Verlena's current book project is a children's picture book about a little boy named Jimmie in rural Mississippi in the 1940s. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/melodie-rodgers/message

Planet Poet-Words in Space  – NEW PODCAST!  LISTEN to my WIOX show (originally aired June 21, 2022) featuring Cheryl Clarke, remarkable poet, activist, educator and co-organizer of the annual Hobart Festival of Women Writers in Hobart, the Book Village of the Catskills.  Planet Poet's intrepid Poet-At-Large Pamela Manché Pearce also joins us on the show!  CHERYL CLARKE is a black lesbian feminist poet and the author of five books of poetry, the literary study ‘After Mecca': Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement, and the collection, The Days of Good Looks: Prose and Poetry, 1980-2005. She co-edited with Steven G. Fullwood To Be Left with the Body, a literary publication of the AIDS Project Los Angeles for men of color having sex with men.  SINCE 1979, her writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Callaloo: A Journal of African American Arts and Letters, African-American Review, and most recently The Georgia Review and Paideuma: a publication of the National Poetry Foundation; and the iconic anthologies: This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color and  Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology. For nine years, she was an editor of Conditions: A Magazine of Writing for Women with an Emphasis on Writing by Lesbians. She is a member of the editorial board of the long-running lesbian journal, Sinister Wisdom.  SHE is a co-organizer of the annual Hobart Festival of Women Writers in Hobart, the Book Village of the Catskills. “In By My Precise Haircut, Cheryl Clarke collects histories that are all, in effect, personal.  Whether the tone is wily or grieving, wise or wise-ass, the reader is drawn closer by the page and into a world that may be Black, Lesbian middle-aged, sister of a deceased Sgt. J.L. Winters, daughter of the Black Elder – but is certainly a threshold for all.” –Kimiko Hahn, author of foreign Bodies, Toxic Flora and Brain Fever

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

Journal X poets Carla Schick, Claudia Ramírez Flores, and GusTavo A. Guerra Vásquez read and discuss their poems, touching upon themes of racial oppression, jazz, homophobia, border violence, culture, ancestry, “Watsón(ville)”, and more. Journal X, also known as Xinachtli Journal, is a literary/arts magazine focusing on social justice issues. To read or submit to the journal, visit https://www.cabrillo.edu/journal-x/. About the poets: Carla Schick is a Queer activist for liberation, educator and union activist, lover of jazz and language. They have worked for an education system that empowers our students. Published in SF City College's Forum, Milvia Street, Sinister Wisdom, Earth's Daughters, and online, at The Write Launch and A Gathering of the Tribes, they received their Certificate in Creative Writing/Poetry from Berkeley City College. Claudia Ramírez Flores is a poet, fearless writer and Mexican immigrant who highlights crucial social issues in our world by writing about immigration, mental health, death and healing. She seeks to give a voice to the thousands of missing people in México. She has studied at Cabrillo College, UC Berkeley and Yale University. GusTavo Adolfo Guerra Vásquez (he/him) is a multimedia artist whose work has been featured in La Raíz, Fingir, Arte Latino Now, The Coiled Serpent, and The Wandering Song. A GuatemaLAngelino, GusTavo facilitates artistic workshops on poetry and social justice through his consulting work on inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility leadership. You can see his work at IDEALbridges.com or follow him on instagram as @poetartista. You can subscribe to his YouTube channel at gMeing. GusTavo lived in Santa Cruz and Watsonville during the 1990's where he organized cultural events like “Noche de Artistas” and the “Sabor a Chocolate” art exhibit.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://tealeavesamemoir.wordpress.com/2022/06/26/the-unicorn-the-mystery-in-sinister-wisdom-smashthepatriarchy-amreading/

We get into all kinds of chapbook love with poet and educator Liz Ahl! Liz Ahl is the author of Beating the Bounds (Hobblebush Books, 2017), Home Economics(Seven Kitchens Press, 2016), Talking About the Weather (Seven Kitchens Press, 2012), Luck(Pecan Grove Press, 2010), and A Thirst That's Partly Mine (winner of the 2008 Slapering Hol Press chapbook contest). Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, among them Prairie Schooner, Sinister Wisdom, Measure, Nimrod, and Crab Orchard Review. Her work has also been included in several anthologies, including This Assignment is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2013), COVID Spring: Granite State Pandemic Poems (Hobblebush Books, 2020), Show Us Your Papers (Main Street Rag, 2020), Visiting Bob: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Bob Dylan (New Rivers Press, 2018) and Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse (Lost Horse Press, 2017), among others. She has been awarded residencies at Playa, Jentel, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow. She teaches writing at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire.Liz Ahl website: https://lizahl.com Liz Ahl facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Liz-Ahl-220024568036054Liz Ahl twitter:  https://twitter.com/SurlyAcresYoung Writer's Workshop/UVA: https://www.theyoungwriters.orgEthel Chapbooks: https://www.ethelzine.com/chapbooks-minibooksThank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

Hi there, National Poetry Month Extravaganza continues! Today I am so thrilled to be arts calling Alison Lubar! About: Alison Lubar teaches high school English by day and yoga by night. They are a queer, nonbinary femme of color whose life work (aside from wordsmithing) has evolved into bringing mindfulness practices, and sometimes even poetry, to young people.  Their debut chapbook, Philosophers Know Nothing About Love, is forthcoming with Thirty West Publishing in May 2022. Most recently, their work has been published by or is forthcoming with Moonstone Press, New York Quarterly, and Sinister Wisdom; you can find out more at http://alisonlubar.com/ or on Twitter @theoriginalison. More on Linktree from Alison! https://linktr.ee/theoriginalison Praise for Philosophers Know Nothing About Love: “Alison Lubar's Philosophers Know Nothing About Love _is instantly recognizable as a triumph of language and the imagination. Its dreaminess, melodic charm, and entrancing sensual imagery have the extraordinary effect of slowing or halting time itself. What then emerges from each poem are these glimpses into a higher reality, the uncanny "sublime" beyond all mortal comprehension, gorgeously rendered to the page. Enchanting, otherworldy, intimate, and enthralling, Lubar's debut is beyond what we call a stroke of brilliance; rather, it is a reflection of a doubtless talent, sure to sweep away their readers time and time again.⁠” —Jonathan Koven, author of _Palm Lines _and _Below Torrential Hill Philosophers Know Nothing About Love, now on pre-sale here! www.thirtywestph.com/shop/philosophersknownothingaboutlove Thirty West Publishing: www.thirtywestph.com Thanks so much for coming on the show Alison! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro at cruzfolio.com. If you like the show: consider reviewing the podcast and sharing it with those who love the arts, your support truly makes a difference! Check out cruzfolio.com for more podcasts about the arts and original content! Make art. Much love, j

 Dr. Julie Enszer's publications can be found here here: https://julierenszer.com/ Sinister WisdomThe Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement and the Queer Literary Canon  

Courtney & Chris Margolin sit down with Rita Mookerjee of Honey Literary to discuss all things passions, process, pitfalls, and poetry! Rita Mookerjee is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Iowa State University. Her research interests include postcolonial women's literature, food studies, and queer theory. She holds a PhD in Literature from Florida State University. In 2019-2020, she was a Fulbright Fellow to Jamaica. Her critical work has been featured in the Routledge Companion of Literature and Food, the Bloomsbury Handbook to Literary and Cultural Theory, and the Bloomsbury Handbook of Twenty-First Century Feminist Theory. Her poetry is featured in Juked, Aaduna, New Orleans Review, Sinister Wisdom, and the Baltimore Review. She is the author of the chapbook Becoming the Bronze Idol (Bone & Ink Press, 2019). Currently, Rita is the Assistant Poetry Editor of Split Lip Magazine and a poetry staff reader for [PANK]. She is the Poetry Editor and Sex, Kink, and the Erotic Editor for Honey Literary. Find More on The Poetry Question. Purchase merchandise at the TPQ Store. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Sick and Sickening Podcast Discussing how sex and BDSM can be used as empowerment on your journey as a disabled individual. Today's Guest is Sara Youngblood Gregory a lesbian writer and poet. Who covers topics such as sex, kink, bdsm, disability, pleasure and healthcare for queer and trans folks. Sara serves on the board of the lesbian literary and arts journal Sinister Wisdom. Her work has been featured in Vice Huffington post Hello giggles the rumpus , Jezebel and more . Follow Sara on Instagram : https://bit.ly/37Wp98n Twitter : https://bit.ly/3z7Divo Website : https://bit.ly/2XyhISE Sick and Sickening is a podcast highlighting the real unfiltered lives of disabled, invisible illness warriors and activists. Check out other Sick and Sickening episodes here : https://bit.ly/2TqIWZG Follow our host and disability activist Roxy Murray on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3htMGl7 Twitter: https://bit.ly/37VEzcZ

BDSM, domination, submission, kink -- all the things. Welcome to Realm 8. Today we are joined again by the Dominatrix (and fellow MSer), Mistress Magenta, and writer Sara Youngblood Gregory. How does creativity fit into the world of kink and disability? Let's talk. Mistress Magenta is an American dominatrix living on the Gold Coast of Australia. Find Mistress Magenta on Twitter @MistressMagenta. Check out her website at www.mistress-magenta.com.  Sara Youngblood Gregory is a lesbian poet and culture writer. In addition to serving on the board of the lesbian literary and arts journal Sinister Wisdom, Sara is published in Vice, Jezebel, and The Huffington Post, among others. Find her on Twitter @s_youngblood_g or on Instagram @sinister.spinster. Check out her website: https://saragregory.org/ Patrons have access to a bonus continuing conversation about lifestyle kink relationships, aftercare, subspace, and more.   You can find us on the web at myelinandmelanin.com, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @myelinmelanin. You can also subscribe to us on YouTube. Consider supporting us through our Patreon -- patreon.com/myelinmelanin. Patrons can gain access to exclusive content, Myelin & Melanin swag & more. Your support helps us offset the cost of maintaining our website, paying for our remote recording technology, music, podcast & merchandise production, and more. Also, if you enjoy the podcast, please take a minute to leave us a 5-Star rating on Apple Podcasts. Stream the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, and everywhere you listen to podcasts. Peace!

We're still talking intimacy! In Realm 2, we talk with writer Sara Youngblood Gregory about bondage, disability, and liberation. Her article "As A Disabled Person, I Love Bondage. Here’s Why" was published in the Huffington Post in July 2020. Sara joins us again later in the series as well -- we're here for it! Sara Youngblood Gregory is a lesbian poet and culture writer. In addition to serving on the board of the lesbian literary and arts journal Sinister Wisdom, Sara is published in Vice, Jezebel, and The Huffington Post, among others. Find her on Twitter @s_youngblood_g or on Instagram @sinister.spinster. Check out her website: https://saragregory.org/ Check out her article "As A Disabled Person, I Love Bondage. Here’s Why" here: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bondage-disability-empowerment_n_5f0c6bf2c5b63a72c344df6e You can find us on the web at myelinandmelanin.com, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @myelinmelanin. You can also subscribe to us on YouTube. Consider supporting us through our Patreon -- patreon.com/myelinmelanin. Patrons can gain access to exclusive content, Myelin & Melanin swag & more. Your support helps us offset the cost of maintaining our website, paying for our remote recording technology, music, podcast & merchandise production, and more. Also, if you enjoy the podcast, please take a minute to leave us a 5-Star rating on Apple Podcasts. Stream the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, and everywhere you listen to podcasts. Peace!  

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 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.

Of Clockwork Hearts and Metal Iguanodons By Jennifer Lee Rossman   They weren't real, but they still took my breath away. The model dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasties lived on and swam in the waters around three islands in Hyde Park. Enormous things, so big that I'd heard their designer had hosted a dinner party inside one, and so lifelike! If I stared long enough, I was sure I'd see one blink. I turned to Samira and found her twirling her parasol, an act purposely designed to bely the rage burning in her eyes. She would never let it show, her pleasant smile practically painted on, but I'd spent enough time with her to recognize that fury boiling just beneath the surface. Befuddled, I looked back at the dinosaurs, this time flipping down my telescopic goggles. The craftsmanship was immaculate, the color consistent all along the plesiosaur's corkscrew neck, and the pudgy, horned iguanodons looked structurally sound, what with their bellies dragging on the ground. Dinosaurs were Samira's everything; how could seeing them practically coming to life not give her joy?   [Full story after the cut.]   Hello! Welcome to GlitterShip episode 76 for June 24, 2019. This is your host, Keffy, and I’m super excited to be sharing this story with you. Today we have a GlitterShip original, which is available in the Autumn 2018 issue that you can pick up at GlitterShip.com/buy, on Gumroad at gum.co/gship08, or on Amazon, Nook, Kobo, and other ebook retailers. If you’ve been waiting to pick up your copy of the Tiptree Award Honor Listed book, GlitterShip Year Two, there’s a great deal going on for Pride over at StoryBundle. GlitterShip Year Two is part of a Pride month LGBTQ fantasy fiction bundle. StoryBundle is a pay-what-you-want bundle site. For $5 or more, you can get four great books, and for $15 or more, you’ll get an additional five books, including GlitterShip Year Two, and a story game. That comes to as little as $1.50 per book or game. The StoryBundle also offers an option to give 10% of your purchase amount to charity. The charity for this bundle is Rainbow Railroad, a charity that helps queer folks get to a safe place if their country is no longer safe for them. This is a great deal, so if you want to take advantage of it, go to Storybundle.com/pride soon! The deal only runs through June 27th, depending on your time zone.     Today’s story is “Of Clockwork Hearts and Metal Iguanodons” by Jennfer Lee Rossman, but first our poem, “Shortcake” by Jade Homa.   Jade Homa is an intersectional feminist, sapphic poet, lgbtq sensitivity reader, member of The Rainbow Alliance, and editor-in-chief of Blue Literary Magazine. Her poetry has been published in over 7 literary magazines, including BlazeVOX, A Tired Heroine, The Ocotillo Review, and Sinister Wisdom (in print). Jade’s work will be featured in an exhibit via Pen and Brush, a New York City based non profit that showcases emerging female artists, later this year, along with being featured in a special edition of Rattle which highlights dynamic Instagram poets. In her free time, Jade loves petting dogs, eating pasta, and daydreaming about girls.     Shortcake by Jade Homa you called me your strawberry girl / and I wondered if it was / the wolf inside my jaw / or the red stained across my cheeks / or the way I said fuck / or thattime I yanked your / hair / or every moment / you swallowed me whole     And now “Of Clockwork Hearts and Metal Iguanodons” by Jennifer Lee Rossman, read by April Grant.   Jennifer Lee Rossman is that autistic nerd who complains about inaccurate depictions of dinosaurs. Along with Jaylee James, she is the co-editor of Love & Bubbles, a queer anthology of underwater romance. Her debut novel, Jack Jetstark's Intergalactic Freakshow, was published by World Weaver Press in 2018. She tweets about dinosaurs @JenLRossman April Grant lives in the greater Boston area. Her backstory includes time as a sidewalk musician, real estate agent, public historian, dishwasher, and librarian. Among her hobbies are biking and singing.     Of Clockwork Hearts and Metal Iguanodons By Jennifer Lee Rossman   They weren't real, but they still took my breath away. The model dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasties lived on and swam in the waters around three islands in Hyde Park. Enormous things, so big that I'd heard their designer had hosted a dinner party inside one, and so lifelike! If I stared long enough, I was sure I'd see one blink. I turned to Samira and found her twirling her parasol, an act purposely designed to bely the rage burning in her eyes. She would never let it show, her pleasant smile practically painted on, but I'd spent enough time with her to recognize that fury boiling just beneath the surface. Befuddled, I looked back at the dinosaurs, this time flipping down my telescopic goggles. The craftsmanship was immaculate, the color consistent all along the plesiosaur's corkscrew neck, and the pudgy, horned iguanodons looked structurally sound, what with their bellies dragging on the ground. Dinosaurs were Samira's everything; how could seeing them practically coming to life not give her joy? "What's wrong?" I asked quietly, so as not to disturb the crowds around us. Well, any more than our mere presence disturbed them by default. (It wasn't every day they saw a girl in a mechanical chair and her butch Indian crush who wore trousers with her best jewelry, and they did not particularly care for us. We didn't particularly care what they thought, which really didn't engender ourselves to them, but luckily polite society frowned on yelling at people for being gay, disabled, and/or nonwhite, so hooray for us.) "It's wrong." "What is?" She gestured emphatically at the islands, growing visibly distressed. "It! Them! Everything! Everything is wrong!" If Samira's frustration had a pressure valve, the needle would have been edging toward the red. She needed to get out of the situation before she burst a pipe. I knew better than to take her hand, as she didn't always appreciate physical touch the way I did, so I gently tugged at the corner of her vest as I engaged my chair. The miniature steam engine behind me activated the pistons that turned my chrome wheels, and Samira held onto my velvet-padded armrest as we left the main viewing area and took refuge by one of the fountains in the Crystal Palace. She sat on the marble edge, letting a hand trail in the shimmery water until she felt calm enough to speak. "They did it all wrong, Tilly. They didn't take any of my advice." She rummaged through her many pockets, finally producing a scrap of paper with a dinosaur sketched on it. "This is what iguanodon looked like." Her drawing showed an entirely different creature than the park's statue. While theirs looked sluggish and fat, kind of like a doofy dragon, Samira's interpretation was nimble and intelligent, standing on four legs with a solid but agile tail held horizontally behind it. And its nose horn was completely absent, though it did have a large thumb spike, giving it the impression of perpetually congratulating someone on a job well done. It certainly looked like a more realistic representation of a living creature, but these things lived, what, millions of years ago? Even someone as brilliant as Samira couldn't possibly have known what they were really like. But I couldn't tell her that. Girlfriends are supposed to be supportive, and I needed to do everything I could to gain prospective girlfriend points before I asked her out. "What evidence did you give them for your hypothesis?" I asked instead. "All we really have are fossils, right?" Her face lit up at the invitation to delve into her favorite subject. "Right, and we don't even have full skeletons yet of most of them. But we have limbs. Joints. And if we compare them to skeletons of things that exist now, they don't resemble big, fat lizards that could hardly move around. That makes no biological sense, because predators could just waltz up and eat them. They had to be faster, more agile. They wouldn't have survived otherwise." "So why wouldn't they have listened to you?" I asked, perplexed. "Because they don't understand evolution," she said, though she didn't sound convinced. "Or they don't want to be shown up by a girl. A lesbian girl with nonconforming hair and wardrobe who dares to be from a country they pretend to own." She crossed her arms and stared at her boots. "Or both. But there's no excuse for the plesiosaurs. No creature's neck can bend like that." I wasn't sure exactly how I was supposed to respond to that. Samira never complained about something just to commiserate; she expected answers, a solution. But I couldn't very well make them redesign the statues, no matter how happy that would have made her. So we just sat together quietly by the fountain, fuming at the ignorant men in charge of the park, and I schemed for a way to fix things for the girl that made my eyes light up the way dinosaurs lit hers.   Every problem had a solution, if you tinkered hard enough. After my accident, I took a steam engine and wheels from a horseless wagon and stuck them on a chair. My mum hadn't been amused to lose part of her dinette set, but it got me around town until I could build a proper wheelchair. (Around the flat parts of town, anyway. My latest blueprints involved extending legs that could climb stairs.) And when Londoners complained about the airship mooring towers were ruining the skyline, who figured out a way to make them retractable? That would be me. The airship commissioner hadn't responded to my proposal yet, but it totally worked in small scale on my dollhouse. It was just a matter of finding the solution to Samira's dinosaur problem. I spent all night in my workshop, referring to her sketches and comparing them to promotional drawings of the park's beasts. I'd be lying if I said I didn't consider breaking in and altering the statues somehow, but the sheer amount that they had gotten wrong precluded that as a possibility. This wasn't a mere paintjob or moving an iguanodon horn; they needed a complete overhaul. I ran my fingers through my hair in frustration. The day they announced that they were building realistic, life sized dinosaurs in Crystal Park was the day I fell for Samira. I'd always thought she was pretty—tall, brilliant smile, didn't conform to society's expectations for women—but the pure joy radiating from her... It was like she'd turned on a giant electromagnet inside her, and the clockwork the doctors had installed to keep my heart beating was powerless against her magnetic field. So I listened to her gush about the park, about how the statues would make everyone else see the amazing lost world she saw when she looked at a fossil. I didn't understand a lot of it, but I understood her passion. The grand opening was supposed to be the day I finally asked her out, but now it would have to be when I presented her with my grand gesture of grandness... Whatever it was.   I woke abruptly to the chimes of my upcycled church organ doorbell and found a sprocket embedded in my face. Groaning, I pushed myself off my worktable and into a sitting position. "Did you let me sleep out here all night?" I said into the mouthpiece of the two-way vibration communicator prototype that fed through the wall and into the kitchen. A moment later, my mum picked up her end. "'Mum,'" she said, imitating my voice, "'I'm a professional tinkerer and nearly an adult. I can't be having a bedtime!'" "Point taken. Have I missed breakfast?" The door in the wall opened to reveal a plate of pancakes. "Thanks!" I tore a bite out of one as I wheeled over to the door. My crooked spine ached from sitting up all night. Activating the pneumatic door opener, I found George about to ring the bell again. George, my former boyfriend and current best friend. Chubby, handsome, super gay. We'd tried the whole hetero thing for two whole days before we realized it wasn't for us, then pretended for another six months to keep his father from trying to matchmake him with one of the Clearwater sisters. I wouldn't have minded being with a man, necessarily, but ladies really sent my heart a-ticking, so it was no great loss when George told me he was a horticultural lad. (You know, a pansy. A daisy. A... erm. Bougainvillea? I must confess, flowers didn't excite me unless they were made of scrap metal.) George raised an eyebrow. "I take it the declaration of love went well, then?" When I only frowned in confusion, he pointed to my face. "The sprocket-shaped dent in your cheek would suggest you spent the night with a woman." "Samira isn't an automaton, George." "No, but she's got the..." He mimed having a large chest. "And the, um... Scaffolding." "Do you think women's undergarments are made of clockwork?" I asked, amused. I mean, mine were, but that was just so I could tighten the laces behind my back without assistance when I wore a corset. Which wasn't often. My favorite dresses were the color of grease stains and had a lot of pockets, so it should come as no surprise that I didn't go anywhere fancy on a regular basis. George blushed. "So... it did not go well, then?" He came in and tinkered with me over pancakes while I told him about my predicament, making sympathetic noises at the appropriate times. When I was done with my story, he sat quietly for a moment, thinking while he adjusted the spring mechanism in an old cuckoo clock. "And you can't just go over with flowers and say, 'Hey, gorgeous, wanna gay together?' because...?" "Have you met me? I don't do romance. I make things for romantic people." I gestured to the wind-up music boxes, mechanical roses that opened to reveal a love note, and clockwork pendants scattered about my workshop. All commissions from people who were better at love than I was. "Then pretend you're a clueless client like Reverend Paul. Remember what you did for him?" The reverend had come in wanting to woo Widow Trefauny but didn't know a thing about her except that she liked dogs and made his heart smile. I thought my solution was ingenious. "I built a steam-powered puppy." George held his hands out, prompting. "So..." Suddenly, it all clicked into place, like the last cog in a clock mechanism that makes everything tick. "I need to build a steam-powered dinosaur for Samira."   Dinosaurs, as it turned out, were huge. I mean, they looked big on the islands, sure, but that was so far away that I only truly got a sense of scale when I started measuring in my workshop. Samira's notes put iguanodon, my dino of choice, at around ten meters in length. Since a measuring tape required more free hands than I had, I tied a string around one of the spokes of my chair's wheels, which had a one-point-eight meter circumference, and measured five and a half revolutions... Which took me out of my cramped shop and into the street, forcing horses and their mechanical counterparts to divert around me. "Don't suppose it would do to detour traffic for a couple weeks, eh?" I asked a tophatted hansom cabbie, who had stopped his horseless machine to watch me in amusement. "Reckon not, Miss Tilly," he said with a laugh, stepping down from his perch at the front of the carriage. He pulled a lever, and the cab door opened with a hiss to reveal a pile of gleaming metal parts. "Ooh!" I clapped my hands. "Are those for me?" He nodded and began unloading them. My iguanodon was going to be much taller than me, and even though George had promised his assistance, I needed to make extendy arms to hold the heavy parts. "Is there somewhere else you could build him?" I supposed this wouldn't exactly be stealthy. I could stop Samira from going in my shop, but it would have been substantially more difficult to stop her from going down an entire street. But where?   I got my answer a few days later, when the twice weekly zeppelin to Devon lifted off without Samira on board. She was usually the first in line, going not for the luxury holiday destinations that drew in an upper-class clientele, but for the fossils. The coast of Devon was absolutely lousy with fossils. The concept of extinction had been proven there, Mary Anning herself found her first ichthyosaur there, and all the best scientists fought for the right to have their automata scan the coast with ground-penetrating radar. Samira's life revolved around trips to Devon and the buckets of new specimens she brought home every week. "Why aren't you on that zeppelin?" I asked as we sat in her room, sorting her fossilized ammonites. She'd originally had the little spiral-shelled mollusks organized by size, but now thought it more logical to sort by age. Me, I thought size was a fine method, but I didn't know a thing about fossils and was happy to do it however she wanted. She didn't answer me, just kind of shrugged and ran her thumb over the spiral impression in the rock. "Is it because you're upset that they didn't take your advice on the dinosaurs?" I knew it was, but I had to hear her say it. "I don't see the point of it if no one will care about what I find." She sounded so utterly despondent. Joyless. The one thing that gave her life purpose had been taken away by careless men. They probably only cared about whether the park was profitable, not if it was accurate. I couldn't make them change their statues, and I couldn't make the public care that they were wrong. But I had to fix it for my best girl, because there was nothing sadder than seeing her like that. "Can I hold your hand for a second?" I asked quietly. She gave the slightest of nods and I took her hand gently in mine, my clockwork heart ticking at double speed. "You've got a gift, Samira. Scientists have to study these bones for months just to make bad guesses about the animals they came from, but you can look at an ankle joint and figure that it was a quadruped or a biped, if it ate meat or plants, and what color its skin was." She gave me a look. "Okay, I'm exaggerating, but only a little. I don't agree with the way they're portrayed, but this world is going to love dinosaurs because of the ones at Crystal Palace. People are going to dig for fossils even more, and they're going to need someone amazing like you to teach them about the new things they unearth." I tried to refrain from intertwining our fingers; just touching was a big enough step. "I need you to promise me something." Samira pulled away, and I had to remind myself that this didn't necessarily mean anything more than her just being done holding hands. "What is it?" "A week from today, be on the zeppelin to the coast." The coast, with its ample space and no chance of Samira discovering my project before it was ready. She made a face. "I don't know." "Please?" I begged. "For me?" After a long moment's consideration, she nodded. "For you."   George and I caught the midweek zeppelin. Lucky for us, most tourists went down for the weekend, so all of our metal parts didn't weigh us down too much. We did share the cabin with a few fancy ladies, who stared in wordless shock at Iggy's scrapmetal skull sitting on the chair beside us. I'd named him Iggy. His head was almost a meter long. Mostly bronze and copper, but I'd done a few tin accents around the eyes to really make 'em pop. When we arrived at the shore, we had to fight a couple paleontologists for space on the rocky coastline. Not physically fight, fun as that might have been. Once they realized we weren't trying to steal their dig sites, they happily moved their little chugging machines to give us a flat stretch of beach. Which just left us with three days to assemble Iggy, whose hundreds of parts I had not thought to label beforehand. Another thing I neglected to do: inform George of the scope of this project. "Matilda, I adore you and will always help you with anything you need," he said, dragging a tail segment across the rocks with a horrific scraping. "But for future reference, the next time you invite me to Devon to build a life-sized steam-powered iguanodon? You might mention how abysmally enormous iguanodon were." "That sounds like a you problem," I teased, my voice echoing metallically as I welded the neck together from the inside. I'd actually gotten out of my chair and lay down in the metal shell, figuring it would be easier to attach all the pneumatics and hydraulics that way. I should have brought a pillow. At night, because we were too poor to afford one of the fancy hotels in town, we slept on the beach beneath a blanket of stars, Iggy's half-finished shape silhouetted against the sky. "Samira's a fancy lady," I said to George as we lay in the sand. "She doesn't wear them, but she has expensive dresses. All lacy and no stains. Her family has a lot of money. Could she ever really want to be with someone like me?" He rolled over to face me. "What do you mean, someone like you?" "Poor mechanic who can't go up stairs, whose heart is being kept alive with the insides of a pocket watch that could stop at any time." I didn't try to think about it a lot, but the fact was that the doctors had never done an operation like mine before. It ticked all right for now, but no one knew if my body would keep it wound or if I would just... stop one day. The fear tried to stop me from doing things, tried to take away what little life I might have had left, but I couldn't let it. I had to grab on as hard as I could and never let go. In an ideal world, Samira would be part of that. But the world wasn't ideal. Far from it. Was I too much to put up with? Would she rather date someone who didn't have to take the long way around because the back door didn't have steps? Someone who could give her jewels and... fine cheeses and pet monkeys and whatever else rich people gave their girlfriends? Someone she knew would be around to grow old with her? Maybe that's why I'd put off asking her to be my gal, because even though we got along better than the Queen's guards and ridiculous hats, even though we both fancied ladies and wanted to marry one someday, I couldn't stand to know she didn't see me that way. I cherished her as a friend and didn't see romance as being somehow more than friendship, but she smelled like cookies and I just really wanted to be in love with her. "Hey," George said softly, pulling me closer to him. "She loves you. You realize that, don't you?" "I guess," I said into his shoulder. He smelled like grease. A nice, comforting smell, but too much like my own. At the end of the day, I wanted to curl up with someone like Samira. "You guess. You've held her hand, Tilly. She's made eye contact with you. That's big for her. You don't need a big gesture like this, but I know she's going to love it because she loves you." I hoped he was right.   I saw the weekend zeppelin from London come in, lowering over the city where it was scheduled to moor. Samira would be here soon. And Iggy wasn't finished. He towered over the beach, his metal skin gleaming in the sun, but something was wrong on the inside. The steam engine in his belly, which was supposed to puff steam out of his nose and make him turn his head, wouldn't start up. George saw me check my pocket watch for the umpteenth time and removed the wrench from my hand. "I'll look into it. Go." I didn't need to be told twice. My wheels skidded on the sand and rocks, but I reached the mooring station just as the passengers were disembarking. The sight of Samira standing there in her trademark trousers and parasol combo made my clockwork heart tick audibly. She came. I didn't really doubt that she would, but still. She flashed me a quick smile. "I don't want to fossil hunt," she said in lieu of a greeting. "That's not why we're here," I promised. "But I do want to show you something on the beach, if that's okay." She slipped a hand around my armrest and walked with me. When Iggy's head poked up over the rocks, she broke into a run, forcing me to go full speed to keep up. Laughing, she went right up to Iggy and ran her hands over his massive legs. "He's so biologically accurate!" But did he work? I looked to George, who gave his head a quick shake. Blast. Samira didn't seem to mind, though, marveling at every detail of the dinosaur's posture and shape. "And the thumb spikes that aren't horns!" she exclaimed, her hands flapping in excitement. And she wasn't the only one who appreciated our work. A small group of pith-helmeted paleontologists had abandoned their digging and scanning in order to come and admire Iggy. "It really is magnificent," one scientist said. "The anatomy is nothing like what we've been assuming they looked like, and yet..." "It's so logical," his colleague agreed. "Why should they be fat and slow? Look at elephants—heavy, but sturdy and not so sluggish as their size would suggest. There's no reason these terrible lizards couldn't have been similar." A third paleontologist turned to George. "My good man, might we pick your brain on the neck of the plesiosaur?" George held up his hands. "I just did some riveting—the real geniuses are Matilda and her girlfriend Samira." "Mostly Samira," I added, glancing at her. "And I'm not sure if she's my girlfriend or not, but I'd like her to be." She beamed at me. "I would also like that." To the men, she said, "I have a lot of thoughts on plesiosaur neck anatomy. I can show you my sketches, and I saw a layer of strata that could bear fossils over here..." She led them away, chattering about prehistoric life with that pure joy that made her so amazing. That girl took my breath away.   END   “Of Clockwork Hearts and Metal Iguanodons" is copyright Jennifer Lee Rossman 2019. "Shortcake" is copyright Jade Homa 2019. This recording is a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license which means you can share it with anyone you’d like, but please don’t change or sell it. Our theme is “Aurora Borealis” by Bird Creek, available through the Google Audio Library. You can support GlitterShip by checking out our Patreon at patreon.com/keffy, subscribing to our feed, leaving reviews on iTunes, or buying your own copy of the Autumn 2018 issue at www.glittership.com/buy. You can also support us by picking up a free audiobook at  www.audibletrial.com/glittership. Thanks for listening, and we’ll be back soon with a reprint of “The Quiet Realm of the Dark Queen” by Jenny Blackford.

[Serendipity, Writing Retreat, Submissions, Writing Community] Lauren and Stephanie share updates about the 2nd annual writing retreat (Black Women Writing in the South), Serendipity, Sinister Wisdom, and more.

Audre Lorde and Pat Parker were close friends who fought fiercely for social justice. In this episode, Frank and Gwen discuss a powerful book of letters between the two Black feminist poets.  Book Recommendation Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989, ed. by Julie Ensure More by Audre Lorde and Pat Parker: The Complete Works of Pat Parker, ed. by Julie Enszer Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde  includes the poem "Power" mentioned in the epsiode. I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde  includes the essay "There is No Heriarchy of Oppression" Also check out "Sinister Wisdom," the journal that published Sister Love, for links to articles about the book.   Pat Parker recording of "For Straight Folks Who Don't Mind Gays But Wish They Weren't So Blatant" from the album "Where Would I Be Without You: The Poetry of Pat Parker and Judy Grahn." © Anastasia Dunham-Parker-Brady and the Estate of Pat Parker, 2019, used with permission.

Pat Hussain recounts her childhood in segregated Atlanta and her involvement in various social justice groups, especially her role in the creation of SONG (Southerners On New Ground). Hussain (b. 1950) was born and raised in Atlanta, where she attended segregated schools until high school. She came from a middle class family and was a debutante, but then joined the Marines when her brother came back from Vietnam psychologically damaged and feeling a failure. She married men twice before coming out as a lesbian in the early 1980s. She helped organize the first GLAAD chapter in Atlanta (when GLAAD was just forming), and had just been working for the Gay and Lesbian Task Force organizing the first March on Washington when she attended the Creating Change 1993 conference that led to the founding of SONG, of which she was the first co-director (with Pam McMichael). Biography taken from an interview of Pat Hussain by Lorraine Fontana for Sinister Wisdom. http://www.sinisterwisdom.org/SW93Supplement/Hussain

[Poetry, Activism, Writing Community] JP co-edited issue #107 of Sinister Wisdom, titled “Black Lesbians—We Are the Revolution” to lift up the voices of African-American lesbians for all to hear, see, and know. Her debut poetry collection SAY/MIRROR was a 2016 Lambda Literary finalist. She is also the author of bury your love poems here (Belladonna*). JP was a 2017 Split this Rock Freedom Plow Award for Poetry & Activism finalist and is featured in the 2017 Lesbian Poet Trading Card Series from Headmistress Press. She was the recipient of a 2016 Lambda Literary Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award and has received fellowships and grants from Cave Canem, VONA, Lambda, Astraea, and Brooklyn Arts Council. JP curates Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon, a NY-based forum offering women writers a monthly venue to collaborate. Her poetry and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Apogee Journal, The Feminist Wire, Split this Rock, Muzzle Magazine, and The Best American Poetry Blog. She holds a BA from Barnard College and an MFA in Creative Writing from The City College of New York.

Boy, have we got an episode for you. Brigid and Dan do a deep dive into writing as bisexuals, the value of queer characters, and what still needs to be done on the representation front. Then, Dan talks with Tara Shea Burke, queer poet and editor for Sinister Wisdom, about the tight-rope act of erotic writing, her struggles with identity, and the power of the queer body in poetry. Finally, Brigid and Dan spotlight some of their favorite queer lit mags publishing today.13:06- Pride Discussion50:00- Interview with Tara Shea Burke2:15:16- Queer Lit Mag SpotlightShow notes here: https://writetosurvivepodcast.wordpress.com/2018/06/18/episode-18-queering-our-writing-w-tara-shea-burke/

Boy, have we got an episode for you. Brigid and Dan do a deep dive into writing as bisexuals, the value of queer characters, and what still needs to be done on the representation front. Then, Dan talks with Tara Shea Burke, queer poet and editor for Sinister Wisdom, about the tight-rope act of erotic writing, her struggles with identity, and the power of the queer body in poetry. Finally, Brigid and Dan spotlight some of their favorite queer lit mags publishing today.13:06- Pride Discussion50:00- Interview with Tara Shea Burke2:15:16- Queer Lit Mag SpotlightShow notes here: https://writetosurvivepodcast.wordpress.com/2018/06/18/episode-18-queering-our-writing-w-tara-shea-burke/

JP Howard curates and nurtures Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon, a forum offering all writers, but especially women, at all levels, a monthly venue to come together in a positive supportive space. The Salon celebrates its 7th Anniversary on April 14, 2018. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and is the author of “SAY/MIRROR,” a debut poetry collection published by The Operating System. “SAY/MIRROR” was a 2016 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in the Lesbian Poetry category. Howard is a 2018 featured author in Lambda Literary’s LGBTQ Writers in Schools program, a Push Cart Prize nominee and was a finalist for Split This Rock’s 2017 Freedom Plow Award for Petry & Activism. With Amber Atiya, she edited Volume 107 of Sinister Wisdom – “Black Lesbians-We Are the Revolution.” Sinister Wisdom is a multicultural Lesbian literary and art journal. Howard grew up in Sugar Hill, Harlem the daughter of the groundbreaking African American model of the 1940s and 50s, Ruth King. Poetry has played an important role in her life since childhood allowing her to find her own voice.

[Poetry, Feminist Studies] In January 2018, Sinister Wisdom released “Black Lesbians—We Are the Revolution” (Issue 107) to lift up the voices of African-American lesbians for all to hear, see, and know. This episode is the first in a series of conversations with the contributors. Alexis a queer black troublemaker, a black feminist love evangelist, independent scholar, and activist. She is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity and the forthcoming book, M Archive: After the End of the World;  co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines; and the founder and director of Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind, an educational program based in Durham, North Carolina.

Sinister Wisdom, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, publishes the journal and provides outreach and educational programs in support of building vibrant lesbian communities. Publishing since 1976, it works to create a multicultural, multi-class lesbian space opening, considering and advancing the exploration of lesbian community issues. Originally from Michigan, Enszer was involved in the LGBTQ community in the metro-Detroit area. After leaving Michigan she continued her work with the community working with the Human Rights Campaign in Washington DC. She has her MFA and PhD from the University of Maryland. Enszer is the author of four poetry collections , Avowed, Lilith’s Demons, Sisterhood and Handmade Love. She is also the editor of The Complete Works of Pat Parker, which won the 2017 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry and Milk & Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry, which was a finalist for the 2012 Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry. . She edits and publishes Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary & Art Journal. uest Editors edit a special, thematic issues of Sinister Wisdom. These guest editors solicit, assemble, select, edit, and proof-read a full issue of Sinister Wisdom or work on a special dossier.Sinister Wisdom provides free subscriptions to women in prison and mental institutions; currently, Sinister Wisdom mails about fifteen percent (15%) of each issue of the journal to these women. It offers reduced price subscriptions for lesbians with limited/fixed incomes.

“Women had only been able to buy houses in their own names for less than a handful of years. The fair credit act only really comes in in the early 1970s. The world that they imagined, where lesbians could carve out a life that was meaningful was so much smaller than the world that I live in because of the extreme homophobia that they encountered, because of still so many realities of sexism that legislation and societal change has really affected from 1976 over the past 40 years.” - Julie Enszer For episode 14 we talked with Julie Enszer about her role as editor of the historic journal Sinister Wisdom and the changing roles of politics throughout the years of its publication. Look out for our next episode where we talk to Greta Hurst and her lifetime navigating queerness and collecting testimony. Follow this channel for more great content! Please share, like, and send us feedback about the podcast.

“I call myself a combination between Barbara Walters and Oprah Winfrey in that I try to understand people’s motivations. I try to understand what brings someone to where they are." - Doug O'Keef For episode 12 we talked with Doug O’Keef about the Leather Archives Museum and his interview with the venerable Marge Summit who he interviewed about her experiences owning a lesbian bar. Look out for our next episode where we talk to Julie Enszer the editor of the long running lesbian magazine Sinister Wisdom. Follow this channel for more great content! Please share, like, and send us feedback about the podcast.

Today we talk to historian and author Bonnie Morris about her new book “The Disappearing L. Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture”  just released by  SUNY Press.  In The Disappearing L Morris explores the rise and fall of the hugely popular women-only concerts, festivals, bookstores, and support spaces built by and for Lesbians in the era of women-identified activism. And we talk to Lee Evans and Tara Shannon contributors to the new Lesbian literary and arts journal Sinister Wisdom's Issue Celebrating the Michigan Women's Music Festival.  And we also talk to Sinister Wisdom editor Julie R. Enszer about the newest issue which  honors the forty-year legacy of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival (1976–2015).  Michfest was the embodiment of radical Feminist separatist collaboration, transformational self-defined autonomous spaces, a commitment to sisterhood and matriarchal culture, and a musical city sprung from the earth for one week in the woods each year.   The post Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture appeared first on KPFA.

Silver Threads Hares and Hyenas Anniversary podcast Silver Threads is a celebration of 25 years of the Hares and Hyenas Bookstore in Fitzroy Melbourne, supported by the UNESCO City of Literature Known Bookshops fund, in association with the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, and in partnership with Melbourne Library Service. Episode 6 - Lesbians in Exile WARNING - the following program contains explicit content and themes In this episode we go back to February 14 in 2015 to the launch of issue 94 of Sinister Wisdom entitled Lesbians in Exile. This live recording features the issue's editors, Joan Nestle and Yasmin Tambiah, and other guests, as they discuss the many facets of exile and its fractured, resilient, and complicated relationship to identity through various readings and of course, intelligent and thought-provoking conversation. Introductory music by Alina, Kevin and Harrison - Melbourne Library Service Produced by Louise Cadell - Melbourne Library Service Mixed and Mastered by Flapjack Industry Records

What does the Republican sweep mean for Palestine? Human rights lawyer, scholar and activist Noura Erekat discusses how the bipartisan consensus in favor of Israel's permanent military supremacy in the Middle East could be disrupted and the broader implications of a potential turn towards fascism in the U.S.   Noura will be speaking in Oakland on Thursday, November 17 in a KPFA sponsored event. Pat Parker was one of the pathbreakers of revolutionary lesbian culture in the 1970s and 1980s. She died in 1989 at age 45. Sinister Wisdom and Midsummer Nights Press have released a new collection of all of Parker's published works as well as some never before published. They will celebrate the book's launch with many of Parker's friends and contemporaries, as well as younger artists and activists influenced by her work, on Saturday, November 19 at 1:00 pm at the San Francisco Main Library. Lisa Dettmer talks with editor Julie R. Enszer. About the event About the book       We also speak with Angela Wellman, founder and director of the Oakland Public Conservatory, now celebrating its tenth anniversary in a brand new space, after being displaced due to gentrification. Wellman was recently given a key to Oakland in recognition of the contribution of this unique Bay Area institution. OPC observes its anniversary with an afternoon and evening of African American Roots Music on Saturday, November 19.  Concert at 7 pm, workshops begin at 3:00, followed by a catered community dinner. The post Womens Magazine – November 14, 2016 appeared first on KPFA.

Joan Nestle speaks about the working class butch and femme bar culture of New York City in the late 1950's. She also touches upon the topic of being a controversial fiction writer in the 1980's. Currently, she has finished co-editing a special issue of multicultural lesbian journal "Sinister Wisdom" with Yasmin Tambiah.

Lady Business: A Celebration of Lesbian Poetry (Sibling Rivalry Press) Cassandra Christenson and Ronna Magy, both contributors to the new poetry anthology Lady Business, will read from their selected pieces.  Local favorite Steven Reigns (Inheritance) will introduce them! Cassandra Christenson's published work has appeared in My Life is Poetry, E-33, and The Chronicles. Her life work is about providing love, support, and dignity through the last hours of life. As a Registered Nurse, she founded Project Nightlight, a non-profit organization dedicated to no one dying alone. Ronna Magy is a lesbian senior who came onto the planet as the colors of World War II were fading from Detroit's skyline and Sputnik orbited the skies. She began writing at mid-life. Her stories and poetry have appeared in Sinister Wisdom; Best Lesbian Romance; My Life is Poetry; Hers 2; Love Shook My Heart II; Heatwave; and The Bilingual Review. She's the author of several English as a Second Language textbooks. Steven Reigns is a Los Angeles-based poet and educator.  Reigns organized and taught the first-ever autobiography poetry workshop for GLBT seniors and edited an anthology of their writings, My Life is Poetry.  Visit him at www.stevenreigns.com. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS OCTOBER 7, 2012. Copies of the book from this event can be purchased here: http://tinyurl.com/b4tn9rc