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Jennifer Patterson is a grief worker who uses plants, breath, and words to explore survivorhood, body(ies) and healing. A queer and trans affirming and centering, trauma-experienced herbalist and breathwork facilitator, Jennifer offers sliding scale care as a practitioner through her private practice Corpus Ritual and is a member of The Breathe Network. She has facilitated workshops at healing centers, LGBTQ centers, a needle exchange and harm reduction clinic, online with the Transformative Language Arts Network, sexual violence resource centers, at colleges and universities, veterans hospitals, the collective What Would an HIV Doula Do? and a Hasidic and Orthodox Jewish healing center. She is also a teacher in training programs with The Breathe Network and Breath Liberation Society. She is the author of The Power of Breathwork: Simple Practices to Promote Wellbeing (Quarto). Editor of the anthology Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement (2016), Jennifer speaks across the country, and has had writing published in places like VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, 580 Split, OCHO: A Journal of Queer Arts, Nat. Brut, The Establishment, HandJob, and The Feminist Wire. She was also the creative nonfiction editor of Hematopoiesis Press. A graduate of Goddard College's MA program, Jennifer is finishing a book project focused on translating embodied traumatic experience through somatic practices and critical and creative nonfiction. You can find more at corpusritual.com.   In This Episode:  Jennifer shares her origins story and how she came into trauma and sexual violence counseling and healing.  What prompted Jennifer to start studying herbalism, healing from mainstream spaces, and psychedelics.   How she started creating safe spaces for survivors and centering queer, trans, and non-binary people.  What led Jennifer to leave New York City and move to Northern New Mexico.  Her thoughts on how trauma has now become a mainstream word.  Jennifer's approach to healing to mitigate trauma and harm reduction.  How plant medicines helped Jennifer to understand the trauma in her body.  Rewriting the narrative around dissociation and the protective tools that we use as children and adults that are not necessarily negative.  How Jennifer incorporates writing and breathwork into her healing practice.  Jennifer's experiences in unwellness spaces and navigating these spaces.  Jennifer's current favorite plants.   Full Show Notes: Corpus Ritual Website Corpus Ritual Instagram Virtual Breathwork Groups Breathwork Book Queering Sexual Violence Anthology "Wellness WIthout Community Care Won't Make Us Truly Well" by Sara Weinreb for Well + Good  Laura Chung Instagram Laura Chung Tik Tok Laura Chung's Website YouTube Channel Ceremonial Cacao for 15% off use code: AWAKEN  Try The Class For One Month Free Awaken and Align Instagram Awaken and Align Website Bi-Monthly Moon Circles via Patreon  Connect with Awaken and Align: If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it and tag me! Subscribe, rate, and review the show wherever you get your podcasts. Your rating and review help more people discover it! Follow on Instagram @awakenandalign Let me know your favorite guests, lessons, or any topic requests.

Jennifer Patterson is a grief worker who uses plants, breath, and words to explore survivorhood, body(ies) and healing. A queer and trans affirming and centering, trauma-experienced herbalist and breathwork facilitator, Jennifer offers sliding scale care as a practitioner through her private practice Corpus Ritual and is a member of The Breathe Network and Breathwork for Recovery. She facilitates writing and breathwork workshops at healing centers, LGBTQ centers, a needle exchange and harm reduction clinic, online with the Transformative Language Arts Network, sexual violence resource centers, at colleges and universities, and in the past, veterans hospitals, the collective What Would an HIV Doula Do? and a Hasidic and Orthodox Jewish healing center. She is the author of The Power of Breathwork: Simple Practices to Promote Wellbeing (Quarto). Editor of the anthology Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti- Violence Movement (2016), Jennifer speaks across the country, and has had writing published in places like VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, 580 Split, OCHO: A Journal of Queer Arts, Nat. Brut, The Establishment, HandJob, and The Feminist Wire. She was also the creative nonfiction editor of Hematooiesis Press. A graduate of Goddard College's MA program, Jennifer is finishing a book project focused on translating embodied traumatic experience through somatic practices and critical and creative nonfiction. You can find more at corpusritual.com. Find out more about CBAW's programs at www.cbaw.org --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cbaw/support

Melissa Febos is the author of the essay collection Girlhood (Bloomsbury). It is a national bestseller.   Her other books include the critically acclaimed memoir, Whip Smart (St. Martin’s Press 2010), and the essay collection, Abandon Me (Bloomsbury 2017), which was a LAMBDA Literary Award finalist, a Publishing Triangle Award finalist, an Indie Next Pick, and was widely named a Best Book of 2017. A craft book, Body Work, will be published by Catapult in March 2022. The inaugural winner of the Jeanne Córdova Nonfiction Award from LAMBDA Literary, her work has appeared in publications including The Paris Review, The Sun, The Kenyon Review, Tin House, Granta, The Believer, McSweeney’s, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Elle, and Vogue. Her essays have won prizes from Prairie Schooner, Story Quarterly, The Sewanee Review, and The Center for Women Writers at Salem College. She is a four-time MacDowell fellow and has also received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, The Barbara Deming Memorial Foundation, The BAU Institute at The Camargo Foundation, The Ragdale Foundation, and The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, which named her the 2018 recipient of the Sarah Verdone Writing Award. She co-curated the Mixer Reading and Music Series in Manhattan for ten years and served on the Board of Directors for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts for five. The recipient of an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, she is an associate professor at the University of Iowa, where she teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Life. Death. Etc. Support the show on Patreon Merch www.otherppl.com @otherppl Instagram  YouTube Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Out in the Open Radio Hour, episode 20, A conversation with Mount Island Magazine Editor in Chief, Desmond Peeples, and contributor Tyler Orion about writing, creating space for rural LGBTQ & POC voices, the power of writing in pandemic times and more. They both read some of their work too! Some things mentioned in the episode: Mount Island Magazine, We Need Diverse Books , VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts , Vermont College of Fine Arts , Vermont Arts Council COVID-19 resources

Out in the Open Radio Hour, episode 20, A conversation with Mount Island Magazine Editor in Chief, Desmond Peeples, and contributor Tyler Orion about writing, creating space for rural LGBTQ & POC voices, the power of writing in pandemic times and more. They both read some of their work too! Some things mentioned in the episode: Mount Island Magazine, We Need Diverse Books , VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts , Vermont College of Fine Arts , Vermont Arts Council COVID-19 resources

In this episode, Clifford Brooks and Michael Amidei interview poet and author Melissa Studdard. https://melissastuddard.com/ Melissa Studdard is the author of four books, including the poetry collection I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast and the young adult novel Six Weeks to Yehidah. Her short writings have appeared in a wide variety of journals, magazines, blogs, and anthologies, such as The New York Times, Poetry, Psychology Today, The Guardian, New Ohio Review, Harvard Review, Bettering American Poetry, and Poets & Writers. A short film of the title poem from Studdard’s I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast (by Dan Sickles of Moxie Pictures for Motionpoems) was an official selection for the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival and the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, as well as winner of the REEL Poetry Festival Audience Choice Award. Other poems of hers have been made into car magnets, telepoem booth recordings, and Houston City Banners. Her awards include the Forward National Literature Award, the International Book Award, the Kathak Literary Award, the Poiesis Award of Honor International, the Readers’ Favorite Award, and two Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards. As well, her books have been listed in Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts’ Best Books of the Year, January Magazine’s Best Children’s Books of the Year, Bustle’s “8 Feminist Poems To Inspire You When The World Is Just Too Much,” and Amazon’s Most Gifted Books. As well, she has recently been in residency at the Centrum in Port Townsend, and The Hermitage Artist Retreat in Manasota Key, where she was poet in residence. In addition to writing, Studdard serves as the executive producer and host of VIDA Voices & Views for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and on the TUPP Advisory Council as a Walt Whitman Project Planning Associate. As well, she is a past president of the Associated Writing Program’s Women’s Caucus. She received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence college and is a professor for the Lone Star College System.

Jodi Picoult ​is the bestselling author​ of 25 novels.​​ Her books have sold over 15 million copies worldwide, and have been translated into​ almost 50 languages.​In this episode -- (recorded live at Foyles Charing Cross as part of Jodi's UK tour) -- we discuss her newest book A Spark Of Light, which centres around women, choice and abortion rights in America​. It unravels backwards, with characters held hostage in an abortion centre in Mississippi. As the novel goes on, you start to realise what brought all the different characters there.Jodi has always centred her novels around important topics. In her novel Nineteen Minutes, she wrote about the aftermath of a school shooting in a small town, and it was her first book to debut at number 1 on the New York Times best-seller list. Her book Change of Heart, published on March 4, 2008, was her second novel to debut at number 1 on that list.​ One of the books she might be also best known for is My Sister's Keeper, which was made into a film starring Cameron Diaz. In her book, Small Great Things​, she tackled racism and white supremacy.In 2016, Jodi joined the advisory board of Vida: Women in Literary Arts, which is a "non-profit feminist organization committed to creating transparency around the lack of gender parity in the literary landscape and to amplifying historically-marginalized voices, including people of color; writers with disabilities; and queer, trans and gender nonconforming individuals."Quotes from the episode:"When women don't tell their stories, narratives are written for us. And they are narratives of blame and shame.""Women's rights are universal rights.""We have to reach across the aisle. We have to speak to people who think differently to us. Instead of judging and talking, you have to sit back and listen, and hope they will give you the grace to do the same thing." See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir, Whip Smart, about her life as a professional dominatrix, and the essay collection, Abandon Me, coming out February 28th. In this episode, she talks to the girls about the subjects she so eloquently covers (read: both Holly and Laura's minds were both totally blown on this book) in Abandon Me: obsessive love, addiction, mental illness and recovery from all of it. Melissa's award-winning work has been published in the New York Times, Salon, The Kenyon Review, among many others. She's the Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Monmouth University and MFA faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). She serves on the Board of Directors for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, and co-curated the Manhattan reading and music series, Mixer, for nine years. More about Melissa and her work at www.melissafebos.com.

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Jodi Picault (pee-ko, pico). Wellington Square Bookshop is thrilled to host Jodi Picoult at the Hilton Garden Inn, Exton on Tuesday, October 25th at 2:00pm. Jodi will be on-hand to read from her latest novel, Small Great Things. Following the reading she will discuss the book and answer readers' questions. Tickets can be purchased on Eventbrite.com by entering Wellington Square Bookshop in the "browse events" tab. The cost of the ticket is $33.99 and includes a signed copy of the book, $5 gift certificate, coffee & dessert and a donation made to VIDA: Women in Literary Arts in Jodi's honor. Jodi is an advisory board member of VIDA, whose goal is to increase critical attention to contemporary women’s writing and to foster transparency around gender and racial equality issues in contemporary literary culture. Following the event, attendees are invited back to the Bookshop. (hopefully, should time allow, Jodi too) Shuttles will run the short distance between the hotel and bookshop and directions will be on hand, for those wishing to drive themselves. Seating is rapidly approaching capacity. If we had a bigger a venue we could have filled that too. Those wishing to attend are encouraged to purchase tickets soon, as the event will sell out well in advance. ____________________________________ Back to the work at hand. Jodi is the bestselling author of twenty-three I guess now 24 novels, everything from her debut Songs of the Humpback Whale, to Salem Falls, My Sister’s Keeper, Leaving Time and now her latest work, Small Great Things, just published last week by Ballantine. Small Great Things is the story of Ruth, an African American labor and delivery Nurse, her son Edison, her friends, her attorney Kennedy, and on the other side, Turk and his wife Brit and I guess, in a way most importantly, their son Davis about whom the entire novel pivots. But the novel also pivots around a situation in modern American, the concept of racial parity, of racial equality or better still as Jodi says in her book, racial equity. Are we as white American men and women able to be truly colorblind? Can we ever experience what it are like to be labeled second fiddles, second best and second class? Kennedy puts it well when she asks the jury how would you like it if you were born on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday--were treated quite well in life, tickets, best seats, early dismissal, but if you were born on a Friday or Saturday then you rode in the back of the bus, got the second class jobs and were denied the best education. In summary the novel deals gracefully with a topic, which has reared, its ugly heard in this election cycle and all around our country from police shootings to football games and the national anthem. The novel couldn’t have arrived at a more propitious time.

Today our guest is Jodi Picault (pee-ko, pico). Wellington Square Bookshop is thrilled to host Jodi Picoult at the Hilton Garden Inn, Exton on Tuesday, October 25th at 2:00pm. Jodi will be on-hand to read from her latest novel, Small Great Things. Following the reading she will discuss the book and answer readers' questions. Tickets can be purchased on Eventbrite.com by entering Wellington Square Bookshop in the "browse events" tab. The cost of the ticket is $33.99 and includes a signed copy of the book, $5 gift certificate, coffee & dessert and a donation made to VIDA: Women in Literary Arts in Jodi's honor. Jodi is an advisory board member of VIDA, whose goal is to increase critical attention to contemporary women’s writing and to foster transparency around gender and racial equality issues in contemporary literary culture. Following the event, attendees are invited back to the Bookshop. (hopefully, should time allow, Jodi too) Shuttles will run the short distance between the hotel and bookshop and directions will be on hand, for those wishing to drive themselves. Seating is rapidly approaching capacity. If we had a bigger a venue we could have filled that too. Those wishing to attend are encouraged to purchase tickets soon, as the event will sell out well in advance. ____________________________________ Back to the work at hand. Jodi is the bestselling author of twenty-three I guess now 24 novels, everything from her debut Songs of the Humpback Whale, to Salem Falls, My Sister’s Keeper, Leaving Time and now her latest work, Small Great Things, just published last week by Ballantine. Small Great Things is the story of Ruth, an African American labor and delivery Nurse, her son Edison, her friends, her attorney Kennedy, and on the other side, Turk and his wife Brit and I guess, in a way most importantly, their son Davis about whom the entire novel pivots. But the novel also pivots around a situation in modern American, the concept of racial parity, of racial equality or better still as Jodi says in her book, racial equity. Are we as white American men and women able to be truly colorblind? Can we ever experience what it are like to be labeled second fiddles, second best and second class? Kennedy puts it well when she asks the jury how would you like it if you were born on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday--were treated quite well in life, tickets, best seats, early dismissal, but if you were born on a Friday or Saturday then you rode in the back of the bus, got the second class jobs and were denied the best education. In summary the novel deals gracefully with a topic, which has reared, its ugly heard in this election cycle and all around our country from police shootings to football games and the national anthem. The novel couldn’t have arrived at a more propitious time.

In Virginia Woolf's essay, A Room of One's Own, she writes: "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman." That is to say, that for most of history women did not have the education, the support of society, or the means to write and claim her own work. However, in contemporary society, we have moved past that—or have we? In 2010, VIDA—Women in Literary Arts—found that between 3 to 5 men were being published or reviewed for every one woman that appeared in leading magazines, such as Harpers, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic. Danielle Dutton, fiction writer and founder of Dorothy, a publishing project, discusses what these numbers mean to her and the poetics of suburbia in her novel, SPRAWL. In the second half of the episode, Vincent Sherry, the Howard Nemerov Professor of Letters at Washington University, explores the life and literary opinions of Virginia Woolf. In addition to the interview, you hear a reading selection from SPRAWL in a second podcast.