Bread and Roses welcomes back the Unchaste Readers Series for a LIVE Reading Event at our KBOO studios. Pamela Santos hosts.
The Unchaste Readers series provides a space for women and women-identified people to share their stories. The theme Unchaste refers to how it is to be and feel female in a patriarchal system where our autonomy, identity, and survival are threatened in large and small ways.
The Unchaste Readers are women aged 21 to 71 who have read at Unchaste Readers Series between April 2012 and now. They have been all kinds of sexual-preference-spectrum/
Unchaste Readers creates and recreates itself every other month in Portland, Oregon, currently at Literary Arts. The next reading will be Wednesday, Feb. 17th
Featured Readers:
Rios de la Luz is a xicana/chapina living in Oregon. She is brown and proud. She is always working on decolonizing her mind and being louder. She is in love with her bruja/activist communities in LA, San Antonio and El Paso. Her short story collection, "The Pulse Between Dimensions and The Desert" is out now via Ladybox Books. Her work has been featured in Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Entropy, The Fem Lit Magazine, World Literature Today and St. Sucia.
Celeste Gurevich grew up in love with nature and language on the Oregon Coast. She became a born-again multi-medium artist after starting classes at Mt. Hood Community College in 2012. She is a student of beloved local writers Tom Spanbauer, Lidia Yuknavitch, and Kate Gray, who are helping her braid her womanstory into a novel. Her essays can be found the Girl God anthology 'Whatever Works: Feminists of Faith Speak', and elsewhere. Celeste is also an Associate Producer of the podcast, On the Block with Andrew Gurevich, and curator/host of the Corporeal Writers™ Reading Series, a showcase for the students of Lidia Yuknavitch’s seasonal Corporeal Writing™ workshops. She and her husband, Andrew, live in Portland, surrounded by the most supportive literary community on the planet.
Kiki Nicole is an agender Black femme poet from Baltimore, Maryland. Their work has been featured on sites such as Voicemail Poems, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, Words Dance, and Bitchtopia, as well as anthologies such as Poems for the Queer Revolution and After Ferguson, In Solidarity from Mourning Glory Press. They curate a blog at kikinicolepoetry.tumblr.com
Ijeoma is a Seattle-based writer, speaker and internet yeller. Her work on race, feminism, parenting and social justice has been featured in The Guardian, Huffington Post, TIME Magazine, The Stranger, Jezebel and more. You can read her work at ijeomaoluo.com.
Carrie Seitzinger is the author of the book, Fall Ill Medicine, which was named a 2013 Finalist for the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry. She is the Co-Publisher of Small Doggies Press. She is also the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the online arts and culture magazine NAILED.
Curator of the Unchaste Readers Series Jenny Forrester has been published in a variety of print and online publications including Seattle’s City Arts Magazine, Gobshite Quarterly, Nailed Magazine, Hip Mama Magazine, The Literary Kitchen, Indiana Review and Columbia Journal. She co-edited the anthology The People’s Apocalypse with Ariel Gore and features many PNW authors. Her essay “The Confession Jar” was published in the Listen to Your Mother Anthology published by Putnam, 2015.
Connect to Unchaste Readers on their blog and Facebook page.
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