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Aunt Lute Books to partner with QWOCMAP for 8th Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival

May 9, 2012 • Aunt Lute is thrilled to announce our community partnership with the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project’s (QWOCMAP) 8th annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival, featuring films and panel discussions made by and for queer women and transgender people of color. Read more »

Impressions of “Struggle, Then and Now”

April 27, 2012 • Aunt Lute thanks all attendees for supporting “Struggle, Then and Now.” We are deeply honored to have facilitated an diverse dialogue between so many involved members of the Bay Area community, whose interest and passion makes such discussions possible. That said, while we are glad that complex issues our multi-generational community struggles with today were broached in our round table discussion, our intention was to create a space that was not only honest and open, but also inclusive and welcoming for as many people as possible, of all identities. We hear your desire for a continuing discussion, so please watch this space as we move forward. Read more »

LeAnne Howe Wins Lifetime Achievement Award from Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas

April 25, 2012 • LeAnne Howe, author of fiction, poetry, screenplays, creative nonfiction, plays and scholarship that primarily deal with American Indian and Native American experiences, has been honored with the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas. You can read about Howe’s achievements (literary, educational, and otherwise), travels, and more in the press release about the 2012 award. One of the few literary awards to be presented to Native Americans by Native Americans, the Literary Achievement Award was most recently awarded to Sherman Alexie in 2010. Read more »

Harry Potter, the Boy Who Deconstructed the Patriarchy

April 11, 2012 • Where can you find bell hooks, Gloria Anzaldúa and Hermione Granger side by side? Why, the Feminist Harry Potter Tumbler, of course! The brainchild of Krystie Yadoli of Syracuse University, this blog brings to light the existing feminist ideas within the rich Potterverse and also provides a forum to discuss the more problematic elements. Return to Hogwarts with an eye for how this pop culture touchstone, written by a single mother, touches not just on myths and magic, but also on some of the feminist theory we love. Read more »

Weekly Quotes Celebrating 25th Anniversary of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands

Aunt Lute celebrates the 25th anniversary of Gloria Anzaldúa‘s Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza with weekly quotes about the enduring importance and beauty of this groundbreaking work. An influence work in women’s and Chicana/Latina studies—and in the lives of everyday people—Borderlands not only expressed Gloria’s perspectives as a queer mestiza, but offered a new, hybrid way of speaking and understanding for all outsiders. Do you have a favorite quote about Borderlands? Share it with us! Read more »

Adrienne Rich Remembered by Alice Walker on Democracy Now!

April 4, 2012 • As many of you know, celebrated poet, feminist, and activist Adrienne Rich passed away last week at the age of 82. Her prolific works gave voice to communities that had been—and all to often continue to be—stifled, and inspired a generation of women, writers, and intellectuals. Democracy Now! invited fellow poet Alice Walker and her longtime literary agent Frances Goldin to speak on Rich’s work and influence. Aunt Lute has published work by Adrienne Rich Alice Walker in the The Aunt Lute Anthology of American Women Writers, Volume Two and Alice Walker Banned. Read more »

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Intergenerational Dialogue with Judy Grahn

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