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26.102018September 9, 2019

VIDA Reviews! feeld notes: feeld, by Jos Charles

By Sarah ClarkIn VIDA Review ReviewsTags binary, Chaucer, experimental, gender, Jos Charles, language, Louis Zukofsky, Noa/h Fields, queer, review, Tommy Pico, trans poetry

Jos Charles, there’s room in “thees wite skirtes” for thee and me, so let’s write these rites alchemically. I’m feeld-ing your book, by which I...

12.082018September 9, 2019

VIDA Reviews! This Will Be My Undoing, by Morgan Jerkins

By Jenn MonroeIn VIDA Review ReviewsTags gender, intersectionality, Morgan Jerkins, Nancy Nigrosh, race, review

It’s no accident the cover of Morgan Jerkins book has her looking up with eyes closed as though she’s imagining the positive impact of her...

27.072018September 9, 2019

VIDA Reviews! In Search of Pure Lust & Conversation with Author Lise Weil

By Sarah ClarkIn VIDA Review ReviewsTags #metoo, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Combahee River Collective, cultural lesbianism, Daughters of Bilitis, Dyke Action Machine, First National Lesbian Conference, heterosexism, internalized-oppression, Interview, Judy Grahn, Julie Enszer, lesbian, lesbian feminism, lesbian history, Lise Weil, Lou Robinson, Mary Daly, memoir, Nishant Shanani, queer theory, review

“A lesbian is a memoir.” – Lou Robinson “Lesbian-feminism invites us to be present, to follow the crumbs.” – Julie Enszer1 “We saw ourselves as...

20.072018September 9, 2019

VIDA Reviews! Sharp by Michelle Dean

By Sarah ClarkIn VIDA Review ReviewsTags Bridey Heing, Dorothy Parker, double standards, Hannah Arendt, Janet Malcolm, Joan Didion, Lillian Hellman, literary criticism, Mary McCarthy, Michelle Dean, Nora Ephron, Pauline Kael, Rebecca West, Renata Adler, review, sexism, Susan Sontag, women's history, women's literature, Zora Neale Hurston

Women today are still fighting a fight that began in the 1970s—namely, to carve out their own space in the canon of cultural greatness. The...

13.072018September 9, 2019

VIDA Reviews! Interview with Chelene Knight on Dear Current Occupant

By Sarah ClarkIn VIDA Review ReviewsTags belonging, Brighde Moffat, Chelene Knight, genre, hybrid, Interview, Jen Sookfong Lee, letters, memoir, memory, non-fiction, process, race, review, sexuality, trauma, Vancouver, writing advice

Dear Current Occupant is non-linear memoir that maps Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in the 80s and 90s. Through writing letters to the occupants of rentals she...

07.062018September 10, 2019

VIDA Reviews! Monster Portraits by Sofia Samatar & Del Samatar — Inclusion as Key to Renewal

By Sarah ClarkIn VIDA Review ReviewsTags AWP, Del Samatar, Feminism, feminist criticism, Freud, gender, Hegel, Kelly Link, kelly lydick, monsters, other, psychoanalytic criticism, review, Rose Metal Press, siblings, Simone de Beauvoir, sofia samatar, xenophobia

For as long as there has been storytelling, there have been monsters. In Egypt it was Anubis and Bastet. In India Dawon, Pishacha, and Kaliya....

25.052018September 10, 2019

VIDA Reviews! One Above One Below: Positions & Lamentations by Gala Mukomolova

By Sarah ClarkIn VIDA Review ReviewsTags Caitlin Grace McDonnell, Courtney Love, Gala Mukomolova, migrant, poetry, queer, rape culture, review, sex

“And I’m the one with no soul, one above and one below” laments Courtney Love, in her 1994, song “Violet.” I don’t know if the...

17.052018September 10, 2019

VIDA Reviews! Women in Sound Zines

By Jenn MonroeIn VIDA Review ReviewsTags audio artist, audioworker, Madeleine Campbell, non-binary, Tess Wilson, Women in Sound Zine

“Why is the largest audio forum on the internet called Gear Slutz? Why is this guitar pedal called Screaming Whore? Why have no women been...

01.052018September 10, 2019

VIDA Reviews! Glimmerglass Girl by Holly Lyn Walrath

By Sarah ClarkIn VIDA Review ReviewsTags body, femininity, gender, Holly Lyn Walrath, Jody T. Morse, poetry, review

From the opening lines, Glimmerglass Girl by Holly Lyn Walrath propelled me into an intersection between ethereal loftiness, humorous speculation, and poignant consideration. “in the...

12.042018September 10, 2019

VIDA Reviews! A Book of Untruths by Miranda Doyle

By Lisa SummeIn VIDA Review ReviewsTags A Book of Untruths, artifact, defiance, family relationships, fathers, identity, lies, memory, Miranda Doyle, misogyny, mothers, parents, redemption, relic, truth, victim, victim-blaming

Lie Like Them: Writing the Unbelievable Parent Who is telling the truth? I wrote this note for myself in the margin of one of my...