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SUGAR, A MEMOIR OF CRAVING is AVAILABLE!
You can find it via Transgresspress.org/sugar.html and purchase alone, or with Trunky: A Memoir of Institutionalization & Southern Hospitality for a reduced price of $30 for both! It’s also available on Amazon, and can be ordered through your favorite book store. My bookstore is Flyleafbooks.com in Chapel Hill, NC
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Opening night at Flyleaf Books
Thursday, May 12th, my dear friend and co-conspirator Molly McGinn and I, trundled off to Chapel Hill, where we read Sugar and played soulful tunes for a nice group of old friends. Honestly, it was so great to see and TOUCH everybody. Appropriately. With consent.
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Queer Alchemy–Being a Writer in Troubling Times
Recently I was privileged to speak at the Sounds of Change Youth Project, a week-long workshop on spoken word for people aged 14-19. that happened at the LGBTQ Center of Durham. Below is a video of my talk, the central theme being about how critical community is to the creation of work!
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A Tide of Horror, and some Good News.
There’s an op-ed in the Huffington Post today that expressed the horror in Charlottesville, Virginia succinctly: White Supremacy is Demonic. I’m not Christian nor do I have time for the Devil. There is something absolutely demonic, however, in seeing the rotten spawn of Nazi Germany, the confederacy, slavery, et al, be so emboldened and so…
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Unabashedly, Gleefully Queer: Sammy at the Lammies!
Tig Notaro! Cynthia Nixon! Jeanette Winterson! Eileen Myles! Taylor Mac! Justin Vivian Bond! The presenters and attendees are a star-studded batch of LGBTQ goodness, suggesting, as the Guardian says, that this award ceremony is “unabashedly, gleefully queer…” As the day draws near, I confess: what had been a rather lackluster attempt at excitement for the Lambda…