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What does it mean to be a revolutionary femme in 2024 in a time of genocide and yet survival? What are femme literary lineages and strategies, and what are the revolutionary femme poems and poetics this time demands we write?

Participants will read poetry and mixed media work by Cyree Jarelle Johnson, Trish Salah, Torrin Greathouse, Mark Aguilar, Danez Smith, Kai Cheng Thom and Stefani Echverria Fenn and consider femme traditions of rant, manifesto, rigorous lyric and discursive exploration of monstrous body in how we write to document, dream and femifest. We will also write our asses off.

Workshop will be in Zoom with CART, with a text based space to post work. ASL provided upon request. This workshop will be capped at 40 participants and center BIPOC and non-cisgender femmes.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is an old ass bitch who has seen some shit and done a lot of the rest. They are the author or co-editor of 10 books, including The Future Is Disabled, Care Work, Bodymap, Dirty River and Tonguebreaker.

A longtime disabled and transformative justice person and maker of QTBIPOC creation spaces, they won the Lambda, are a 5 times Publishing Triangle shortlister, a 2020-21 Disability Futures Fellowship winner and the winner of the 2021 Jeanne Cordova Award "in recognition of a lifetime of documenting the complexities of queer of color, femme and/or disabled existence."