Spoken Violets

To celebrate both the release of "Sinister Wisdom 125: Glorious  Defiance, work by Disabled Lesbians" and disability pride month,  Sinister Wisdom staff sat down with two artists featured in Sinister  Wisdom 125. Listen to Allison "Bird" Treacy and Chatham Greenfield talk about the importance of disabled lesbian literary spaces, IBS, and their creative processes!  

Allison Bird Treacy is a poet and literary critic whose writing grapples with issues of disabled embodiment and history, ecology, and the entanglement of both in myth and faith. Based in thePioneer Valley in  Massachusetts, Bird’s work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Cider  Press Review, Pilgrimage, Room, and Pleiades, among others. She is the  recipient of a full scholarship to the Juniper Institute and a Pushcart  nomination, and she is an alumna of Home School Hudson. Bird lives with  her wife, too many cats, and even more kitchen projects. https://abirdwrites.wordpress.com/ Follow @ABird_Tweets on Twitter!

 Chatham Greenfield is a writer and editor, a former Sinister Wisdom  intern and current lesbian. They’re a born and bred Floridian now living in New York with their butch best friend.They’re always looking for new  platforms to share their writing centering around disability,  lesbianism, fat identity, generational trauma, nongenerational trauma,  pop culture, and romance. Feel free to follow them on Twitter  @disabledlesbian or send them an email at [email protected]. 

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This episode is centered on the second half of our two-parter on Issue 115: Lesbian Learning. Lesbian Learning features readings from writers like Kristy Lin Billuni and Shelonda Montgomery.

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Notes for a Revolution, a 144 blank paged notebook with inspiring quotations for women and plenty of space for writing.

The 2020 Calendar features vibrant art from Amalia Russiello, gggrimes, Mi Ok Song Bruining, Vivian Pantoja Ortega, Editha “Aster” V. Delgado, Art Twink & many others.

This episode is centered on the first half of our two-parter on Issue 115: Lesbian Learning. Lesbian Learning features readings from writers like Kristy Lin Billuni and Shelonda Montgomery.

Support and follow us on Instgram and Twitter.

http://sinisterwisdom.org/

Notes for a Revolution, a 144 blank paged notebook with inspiring quotations for women and plenty of space for writing.

The 2020 Calendar features vibrant art from Amalia Russiello, gggrimes, Mi Ok Song Bruining, Vivian Pantoja Ortega, Editha “Aster” V. Delgado, Art Twink & many others.

An interview poet and teacher, Tara Shea Burke.

From the Blue Ridge Mountains and Hampton Roads, Virginia, Tara is a writing instructor, tutor, editor, and yoga teacher who has taught and lived in Virginia, New Mexico, and Colorado. She believes in community building, encouragement, and practice-based living, writing, teaching, being, and art. 

http://www.tarasheaburke.com.