Judy Grahn on Woman-Stirred Radio

Join me this Thursday, September 28th, at 4:30 pm (EST), for a conversation with Judy Grahn, co-director of the Women's Spirituality MA program and Program Director of the MFA in Creative Inquiry, at New College of California. Grahn is also editor of Metaformia: A Journal of Menstruation and Culture.

Judy Grahn is well-known and respected throughout the world as a cultural theorist; she is an early, and foundational contributor to the literature of women's spirituality. Her work engages the reconstitution and recuperation of the rituals, stories, and values of sacred, feminine traditions, and her decades-long work is integral to the holistic body of lesbian-feminist theory.

Grahn's identity as a lesbian-feminist informs all of her work, which includes poetry, essays, herstory, cultural theory, social practice, fiction, and post graduate education.

Her most recent book, Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World (Beacon Press) outlines a new origin theory of culture, which she believes emerged from the peaceful blood rituals of primitive and ancient women. Blood, Bread, and Roses explores cultural perceptions and social mores that both encapsulate menstruation as a curse and the female body as unclean and perverse.

Within the context of metaformic theory, Grahn's most current project is writing a book that explores the origins and trajectories of goddess practices.

Judy Grahn's books include:

Mundane's World: A Novel
Fragments Of Desire: Sapphic Fictions In Works By Hd
Really Reading Gertrude Stein: A selected anthology with essays
Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna
The Common Woman Poems
She Who: A Graphic Book of Poems
Edward the Dyke and Other Poems
A Woman is Talking to death
The Work of a Common Woman
The Queen of Wands
The Highest Apple: Sappho and the Lesbian Poetic Tradition
Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds

So tune in Thursday, September 28th, 4:30 pm (EST) to WGDR Plainfield (Goddard College) or stream it live. Tune in at 4:00 and enjoy Woman-Stirred music before the interview!!

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Woman-Stirred Radio is funded in part by a grant from Samara Foundation of Vermont, and airs every Thursday afternoon from 4:00 until 6:00 pm (EST).