In this roundtable discussion, Sam, Melanie, and guests Casandra López, Erin Adair-Hodges, and Suzanne Richardson talk about the role of feminism in writing today, living and writing intersectional feminist lives, writing the body, writing as an act of reclamation, and more.
TW// Physical assault, sexual assault, violence against women, disordered eating, gun violence, genocide, & colonialism
Casandra's website
Erin's website
Suzanne's website
Recommended Books & Writers
Living a Feminist Life by Sarah Ahmed
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendal
Thick & Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
The Reckonings by Lacy M. Johnson
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Sisyphusina by Shira Dentz
Bad Feminist and Not That Bad by Roxane Gay
Bone Black by bell hooks
Gloria Anzaldua, Audre Lorde, Anias Nin, Sapphire, and Marilyn Chin
Shout-outs from Suzanne:
Shoutout to The Feminist Press in general and the good work they do, but in particular my friend Joey Vallese’s Queer Horror Anthology that is in progress and will be out in 2022. It's a nonfictional essay collection about being queer and what connection and echoes that has with horror film.
Shoutout to my editors over at No Contact: Guarra Shekar, Eliot Alpern, and Natty Berry.
Three Things
Co-editor Daniel Shank Cruz—we’re working on a D&D Anthology together titled Roll 4 Initiative.