Spoken Violets

Spoken Violets
  • 5.0 (2)
  • ARTS

Spoken Violets is the podcast hosted by Sinister Wisdom, a multicultural lesbian literary & art journal that publishes four issues each year. Publishing since 1976, Sinister Wisdom works to create a multicultural, multi-class lesbian space. Sinister Wisdom seeks to open, consider and advance the exploration of lesbian community issues. Sinister Wisdom recognizes the power of language to reflect our diverse experiences and to enhance our ability to develop critical judgment as lesbians evaluating our community and our world. Currently, Julie R. Enszer is the editor of Sinister Wisdom.

Episodes

  1. 08/10/2022

    Episode Nine: Glorious Defiance: Work by Disabled Lesbians

    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

    35 min

  2. 03/20/2020

    Episode Eight: 115 Lesbian Learning, Part Two

    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. 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.

    47 min

  3. 02/03/2020

    Episode Seven: 115 Lesbian Learning, Part One

    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.

    36 min

  4. 01/02/2020

    Episode Six: Tara Shea Burke

    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.

    18 min

  5. 12/16/2019

    Episode Five: Roberta Arnold

    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

    23 min

  6. 11/24/2019

    Episode Four: Nívea Castro

    This episode is an interview with lesbiana activist, writer, photographer, social justice attorney, martial artist, and educator Nívea Castro. Nívea talks about her experience as a lesbiana in New York and the experience of curating Sinister Wisdom: Out Latina Lesbians. https://asterixjournal.com/author/nivea-castro/ http://sinisterwisdom.org/SW97

    35 min

  7. 10/25/2019

    Episode Three: Vi Khi Nao

    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/

    29 min

  8. 10/11/2019

    Episode Two: 113 Radical Muses, Part Two

    The second installment of Sinister Wisdom's opening, two-parter podcast episode centered on Issue 113: Radical Muses.

    30 min

  9. 10/05/2019

    Episode One: 113 Radical Muses, Part One

    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.

    26 min
  • 9 Episodes

Ratings & Reviews

5
out of 5
2 Ratings

About

Spoken Violets is the podcast hosted by Sinister Wisdom, a multicultural lesbian literary & art journal that publishes four issues each year. Publishing since 1976, Sinister Wisdom works to create a multicultural, multi-class lesbian space. Sinister Wisdom seeks to open, consider and advance the exploration of lesbian community issues. Sinister Wisdom recognizes the power of language to reflect our diverse experiences and to enhance our ability to develop critical judgment as lesbians evaluating our community and our world. Currently, Julie R. Enszer is the editor of Sinister Wisdom.

Information

  • Creator
    Spoken Violets
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2022
  • Episodes
    9
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Spoken Violets
  • Show Website
    Spoken Violets