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Woman-Stirred Radio Schedule for Fall 2007

September 13 at 5pm. Diana Souhami. Souhami is the author of Coconut Chaos (London: Orion, 2007), Selkirk's Island (the 2001 U.K. Whitbread Biography Award), The Trials of Radclyffe Hall (short listed for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography and the U.S. Lamda Literary Award), Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter (Lamda Literary Award and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), Wild Girls, Gertrude and Alice, Greta and Cecil, and Gluck: Her Biography.  
http://www.dianasouhami.co.uk/

 
September 20 at 5pm. Gwyn Kirk. Kirk holds a PhD in political sociology from the London School of Economics. She is a scholar-activist concerned with gender, racial and environmental justice in the service of genuine security, peace-making, and creating a sustainable world. Gwyn has taught courses in women’s studies, environmental studies, political science, and sociology at U.S. universities and colleges, and publishes a textbook/anthology, Women’s Lives: Multicultural Perspectives (McGraw-Hill), co-edited with Margo Okazawa-Rey.
 
She has written widely on ecofeminism, militarism, and peace organizing. She is a founding member of the East Asia-US-Puerto Rico Women's Network Against Militarism, which links scholars and activists who deal with the effects of U.S. military bases, budgets, and operations on local communities.
 
Her current research and writing focuses on organizing efforts to promote cleanup and healing from contamination caused by military operations and war. http://www.gwynkirk.net
 
October 4, at 5pm. Poet Major Jackson, author of Hoops (W.W. Norton, 2007). Jackson is an associate professor of English at the University of Vermont and a core faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars. His previous book, Leaving Saturn, was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and his poems have been anthologized and published in many journals, including: The American Poetry Review, Boulevard, and The New Yorker. [ http://www.majorjackson.com.
 
October 11, at 5pm. Sharon Bridgforth. Bridgforth is the Lambda Award winning author of the bull-jean stories (RedBone Press), and love conjure/blues a performance/novel published by RedBone Press. Bridgforth has broken ground in the creation and presentation of the performance/novel and in doing so has advanced the articulation of the Jazz aesthetic as it lives in theatre. She is one of three artists featured in Dr. Joni Jones’ forthcoming book titled, Jazz Ase and The Power Of The Present Moment. In this book, Jones examines the jazz and Yoruba structures and philosophies that shape the work being done by Bridgforth, Laurie Carlos, and Daniel Alexander Jones.

Bridgforth’s work has fostered the study of Black lesbian performance literature in academic settings. Some of the professors who have taught her work are: Lisa Anderson at Arizona State, Phoenix; Elmo Terry-Morgan at Brown University; Laura Harris at Pitzer College; Daniel Banks at New York University, Tisch School For The Arts; Lisa Hernandez at St. Edward’s University; Mattie Richardson at University of California, Berkeley; Lisa Arnold at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Kirsten Gardner at University of Texas, San Antonio; Carol Guess at Western Washington University; Lisa L. Moore, Daniel Alexander Jones, Jafari Allen, Mattie Richardson, Dr. Joni Jones at University of Texas, Austin. Bridgforth has developed a method of facilitating creative writing that she calls, Finding Voice. With the Finding Voice method, Bridgforth mentors/and or facilitates writers through a creative process, encouraging them to use the page as a canvas; to use identity-culture-memory-family histories-dreams to articulate an examine the socio-political realities of their lives in a form that is part poetry, part oral history, part performance art; to examine their creative process; to work in community, using art as a vehicle for social justice. www.sharonbridgforth.com