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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
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NOTES:
Click here for Brenda’s Queer Resistance Playlist 2025 (Spotify).
Check out Brenda's poem "Panopticon" from Interior with Sudden Joy.
Visit Brenda Shaughnessy’s website . And hear her read from her newest book, Tanya here.
Read more about UC Santa Cruz closing the Feminist Studies Dept here.
Read more about Maria Ressa
For more about Roland Barthes’s contribution to literary criticism, read here.
While dated, here’s a list of creative writing programs that are LGBTQ+ friendly.
Read more about Bettina Aptheker
Read more about Donna J. Haraway
Read on for more about the clubs Brenda mentions: Meow Mix, Clit Club, Henrietta Hudson (still open!), Pandora's Box, and more.
Read more about Angela Davis's work here.
For more about Wendy Brown, read her Guggenheim citation here.
You can learn more about Allan Bérubé here.
Learn more about the incredible Urvashi Vaid here.
Watch/listen to Cécile McLorin Salvant's "Until" here.
Read more about Kate Clinton on her website here.
For more about Teresa de Lauretis, click here.
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