Had the pleasure of sitting down with Adele Barclay

- Stranger to me so we take some time sussing each other out

- Queer femme 

- Poet focusing on intimacy and power

- Published: “If I were in a cage, I’d reach out for you” is already out

- Has a grant for her second book “Renaissance Normcore”

We talk about

- The ethics of vulnerability

- Articulating vulnerability and the ways we protect ourselves in the process

- Speaking plainly and the intimacy that brings in written art

- The intimacy of domesticity

- Authenticity when living with people who know you (like partners)

- The way we mask intimacy when living with strangers

- Performance of intimacy

- Stuff sometimes gets in the way

- Ways of performing intimacy authentically

I’m excited to share this grant-writing, money-winning, queer femme poet’s ideas with you on Intimate Interactions!