News & Notes
February 17, 2012 • Aunt Lute author
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>Rosa Montero is featured in La Voz magazine and The Prisma for her evocative writing and incisive views on the state of journalism. Montero’s 1997 book La hija del cannibal (The Cannibal’s Daughter) was recently reviewed by Diana Casais as part of La Voz’s Literary café series.
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!
February 1, 2012 • Aunt Lute authors Nancy Agabian and Emma Pérez will be reading at the AWP creative writers conference as part of “Ancestors; A Queer Writers of Color Reading.” As described by the organizers, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán and Tony Valenzuela, “”Ancestors: A Queer Writers of Color Reading” is a literary reading featuring same-gender-loving, multiple-gender-loving, and transgender poets, non/fiction writers, filmmakers, and performance artists of Indigenous Pacific, Native North American, Arab/Middle Eastern, Asian, Latina/o, and African descent.”
January 24, 2012 • Aunt Lute is currently seeking a marketing intern for a part-time, stipended position in San Francisco. You’ll find the details below, and on our internships page. Please help spread the word to those in the Bay Area who may be interested.
January 17, 2012 • Judy Grahn is among the writers discussed in a recent New York Times article about Matthew Kirschenbaum’s forthcoming literary history of word processing. Judy’s experience with her old Exxon PC was “the most moving testimonial,” for Mr. Kirschenbaum. Grahn explained to him how the computer saved her up to a year while she was writing Another Mother Tongue, a cultural history of gay life published in the early years of the AIDS epidemic.
January 10, 2012 • LeAnne Howe’s poetry was recently published in Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas, a multilingual anthology of indigenous American poetry edited by professor and poet Allison Hedge Coke to serve as a lasting reference for native voices and a link between South American and North American poets.
December 28th • On November 26th, Dance Mission Theater hosted Las Guardianas de la Vida, a Bay Area event recognizing the UN’s annual International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The event featured poetry read by Judy Grahn, Genny Lim and Nina Serrano.
December 20, 2011 • So to Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art, recently reviewed The Judy Grahn Reader. You can read the full review on their website. Reviewer Alyse Knorr calls The Judy Grahn Reader “a wonderful and long-overdue collection of Grahn’s poetry, fiction, drama, and essays.”
December 13th, 2011 • The finalized details on submissions for Aunt Lute’s April 26th event at La Peña Cultural Center, “Struggle Then and Now: Intergenerational Voices on the Bay Area Lesbian Movement,” are now up on A Simple Revolution’s Submission’s page. We’re looking for prose submissions that specifically address the question of how the struggle today relates to the struggle then. Please read the full details and consider submitting to what promises to be another lively, thoughtful Aunt Lute Event!
December 7, 2011 • Tables of contents from Aunt Lute’s books are available online! This is a great resource for teachers thinking about including our books in their courses or casual readers who would like a closer look before purchasing.
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