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July 26, 2023 55 mins
In this episode we're joined by Johanna Hedva, a Korean American writer, artist, and musician who was raised in Los Angeles by a family of witches, and now lives in LA and Berlin.

Johanna is the author of the essay ‘Sick Woman Theory’, originally published in 2016, which has now been translated into ten languages. Hedva is also the author of the novel On Hell, which was one of Dennis Cooper’s favourite books of 2018, and the nonfiction collection Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain. 'Your Love is Not Good' is out now, available from And Other Stories: https://www.andotherstories.org/your-love-is-not-good/

Johanna's website: https://johannahedva.com/

Johanna’s Nine Inch Nails piece in the White Review is here: https://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/theyre-really-close-to-my-body/
Johanna's latest record: https://bighedva.bandcamp.com/album/black-moon-lilith-in-pisces-in-the-4th-house 
A new piece called "scream demo": https://www.amant.org/publications/10-scream-demo
"Why it's taking so long" (essay): https://topicalcream.org/features/why-its-taking-so-long/
"Sick Woman Theory" (essay): https://topicalcream.org/features/sick-woman-theory/

Author photos credit: Ian Byers-Gamber

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