Dani Tirrell and guest Anastacia-Renee talk about Queer Mama Crossroads, being a queer Mother and being present in her joy.
“Black love looks like Afrofuturism rocking a retro shirt and re-(purposed) commitment. Hair a mess of love, lips blinking with “yes,” eyes moist with home.”
Anastacia-Renee is a multigenre writer, educator, interdisciplinary artist and Deep End Podcast co-host. She is a 2020 Arc Fellow(4Culture),recipient of the 2018,James W. Ray Distinguished Artist Award for Washington Artist (Literary), Seattle Civic Poet (2017-2019),Poet-in-Residence at Hugo House (2015-2017), and Jack Straw Curator (2020). Renee has received fellowships and residencies from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, VONA, Artist Trust, Jack Straw, Ragdale, Mineral School, Hypatia in the Woods and The New Orleans Writers Residency. Anastacia-Renee's work has been published in, Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry, Spirited Stone, Foglifter, Auburn Avenue, Pinwheel, The Fight and the Fiddle, Glow, The A-Line, Ms. Magazine and many more.
https://www.anastacia-renee.com/
https://fryemuseum.org/exhibition/7398
Recorded over Instagram Live on September 19, 2020.
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