The Worms Podcast

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a writer, poet, independent scholar, and activist. Their latest book is titled Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.

Eileen Myles is a poet, novelist, performer and art journalist. They are one of the most important figures in American Literature and Poetry.

Books mentioned: A working life by Eileen Myles, Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau

Song mentioned: Hot Topic by Le Tigre

Kate Nash is a BRIT Award-winning singer-songwriter, musician and actress.

Books mentioned

The Revenge of the She Punks by Vivien Goldman

Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

The Body Keeps The Score by Besser van der Kolk

Stephen Ellcock is a renowned image collector whose "online cabinet of curiosities" has attracted more than 633,000 followers worldwide. His most recent book `Elements` is out now.

Books and writers mentioned

Shirley Jackson, Harry Smith, In defense of Witches by Mona Chollet.

Elida Silvey is a self-taught Mexican-American poet, writer, and editor living in London. She is a writer for Hard of Hearing Magazine and a member of the Gobjaw Poetry Collective. She is also the Assistant Editor at Montez Press.

Kita Ward is an artist, writer and food researcher looking to deepen our connection to every being we eat through story telling.

CACONRAD is an author and poet. They teach regularly at Columbia University in New York City and Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam.

Claire Marie Healy’s writing and curated projects explore film, art, fashion, and the internet, with a focus on the experiences of young women. Formerly the editor of Dazed, she has since edited publications on roller discos, dancefloors and SFX makeup for places like IDEA and A24. Her writing has been published by the Tate ("Girlhood", 2023), The Guardian, Dirt, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Cultured, Real Review and others, and she is also a Contributing Editor for AnOther, where her Girlhood Studies column has lived since 2019. Lately, Claire has been working on a new history of girlhood as told through clothing and makeup. 

Books mentioned: ’Girlhood’ by Marie Claire Healy, ’A Summer Bird-Cage’ by Margaret Drabble,

’Women in the Picture’ by Catherine McCormack, ’The Untethered Soul’ by Michael Singer.

Movies mentioned: Virgin suicides, Marie Antoinette, The Beguiled, Hoard, Maxine.

Travis Alabanza is a writer, performer and theatre maker. Their theatre shows Burgerz, Overflow and Sound Of The Underground were all received with critical acclaim. They have given talks on Race and Gender at Harvard, Oxford and Bristol, with their impact in the LGBT plus community being noted in the Forbes 40 under 30 list, Dazed 100 and Attitudes magazine 100 list.

Writers mentioned

James Baldwin, bell hooks.

Books mentioned

None of the Above by Travis Alabanza

The Will To Change by bell hooks

Ella Frears is a poet and artist based in London. Her collection Shine, darling was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for best first collection, and the TS Eliot prize for poetry. 

Writers/artists mentioned

John Cooper Clarke, Sylvia Plath, William Burroughs, Patti Smith, Toni Morrison, William McGonagall.

Book mentioned

Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood.

Tice Cin is an interdisciplinary artist from North London. A London Writers Award winner, her work has appeared in numerous magazines including Extra Teeth and Skin Deep. "Keeping Up The House" is her debut novel.

Writers mentioned
Gabor Mate, Gertrude Stein, Grace Dent, Kareem Parkins Brown.

Filmmaker mentioned
Quentin Tarantino

Musician mentioned
Casisdead

Olivia Sudjic is a writer living in London. Her writing has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Financial Times, Guardian, Vogue, Frieze and Wired. She has taught Creative Writing at Kings College London and is the author of Asylum Road {2021}, Exposure {2018} and Sympathy {2017}.

Books mentioned
Motherhood by Sheila Heti, The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James, Everyday Utopia by Kristen R. Ghodsee, Mother State by Helen Charman

Writers mentioned
Zadie Smith, Martin Amis, Rachel Cusk

Movies mentioned
The worst Person in the world, Past Lives