| Hosted by | Homodoxy |
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| Details | When: Saturday, 6:00 pm, April 25. Seat reservations are free: judygrahnnh.eventbrite.com Where: The sanctuary of the Episcopal Church of St. Paul and St. James Judy Grahn is a poet, theorist, and mythographer of queer life. In 1965, Grahn picketed the White House for gay rights with a handful of other homophile activists. She was involved with the Gay Women’s Liberation Group on the West Coast in the late 1960s and cofounded the Women’s Press Collective. Grahn’s poetry and writing, from Edward the Dyke and Other Poems (1971) through Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds (1984) and on, has been instrumental in the proliferation of lesbian, gay, women’s, and queer literatures. Grahn’s friends and peers have included Paula Gunn Allen, Audre Lorde, Pat Parker, Robert Glück, and others. Grahn will read from Queen of Cups, her forthcoming ecopoetic and polyvocal epic drama depicting a conference of changes, in which figures from gnostic gospels, Christian scriptures, Mesopotamian myth, and tarot appear alongside a chorus of microbes to discuss the pollution of the world and other crises. Minneapolis-based poet Rozalija Grace will open with a reading from her manuscript, Angelolatress. This event is made possible by generous support from Yale’s Queer Faculty Affinity Group, the LGBTQ Employee Resource Group, the Hixon Fund, Yale Divinity School, the Department of Religious Studies, Creative Writing at the English Department, and the Working Women’s Network. The event is organized by Samuel Ernest, ABD in religious studies and the founding publisher of Homodoxy, a new press for gay/queer/trans theology and literature. The Fetzer Institute will be present to film parts of the event for a brief documentary about the start of the new press. |
| Admission | FREE |
| Location | The Episcopal Church of Saint Paul and Saint James |
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| More Info | info link |