I Am Mine “We tend to think deaths and events are all that require grieving, but selves, choices, habits, and relationships we’ve known, they...
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VIDA Reviews! Inside Me an Island, by Lehua M. Taitano
“Who but a horizon so keenly feels how we are kept at each other’s distance?” asks writer and interdisciplinary artist Lehua M. Taitano in the...
VIDA Reviews! feeld notes: feeld, by Jos Charles
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...
VIDA Reviews! This Will Be My Undoing, by Morgan Jerkins
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...
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! Sharp by Michelle Dean
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...
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...
VIDA Reviews! Monster Portraits by Sofia Samatar & Del Samatar — Inclusion as Key to Renewal
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....
VIDA Reviews! One Above One Below: Positions & Lamentations by Gala Mukomolova
“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...
VIDA Reviews! Glimmerglass Girl by Holly Lyn Walrath
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...
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