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

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

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

VIDA Reviews! Interview with Chelene Knight on Dear Current Occupant

VIDA Reviews! Interview with Chelene Knight on Dear Current Occupant

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...

The Authored Self

The Authored Self

Writing, for me, means freedom. Which is to say, everything prior to discovering writing was entrapment. You cannot desire freedom, you cannot be gripped by...

The Dictator in My Notebook: On Censorship and the Risks of Writing

The Dictator in My Notebook: On Censorship and the Risks of Writing

My mother used to warn me, “Never write anything down you wouldn’t want someone else to read. Not in a letter. Not in a diary....

VIDA Editor Roundtable

VIDA Editor Roundtable

Sarah Fawn: Hi everyone, Sarah Fawn Montgomery here. Thank you all for (virtually) sitting down to talk about our editing experiences and processes, and to...

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