Grief Power

Friday 10th April from 17.00h @ Fort van Sjakoo

Feminist, queer and punk American authors come together to share new published works on the transformative power of grief, and be in conversation with one another and the audience. In many cultures grief is depressing, it’s pushed down and kept hidden. Ariel Gore, Dusty Bryndal, and Christa Orth show how grief is a powerful set of human emotions leading to personal and community transformation. Ariel, Dusty, and Christa will read from each of their works which examine full experiences of loss through unexpected lenses of humor, magic, political resistance, and joy.

Not at all depressing readings by:

Dusty Bryndal

Ariel Gore

Christa Orth

Ariel Gore is a Lambda Award-winning editor and author of 13 books of hybrid feminist fiction and nonfiction, including the shameless novel/memoir We Were Witches, the how-to guide Hexing the Patriarchy, and the memoirs Atlas of the Human Heart, The End of Eve, and Rehearsals for Dying. She founded the American Press Award-winning zine Hip Mama. She also makes coloring books like Wonder Widow, and teaches writing online at Ariel Gore’s School for Wayward Writers at the Literary Kitchen. She often lives in Oakland, Santa Fe, and Brooklyn.

Dusty Bryndal writes poetic memoir in the hopes of making people feel more comfortable talking about the dead. Dusty is a Rattle Poetry prize winner and has published poems in Rattle, hipmamazine.com, Mountain Bluebird Magazine, and in anthologies Places Like Home and How We Got By. She and Ariel Gore coedited the chapbook Guilt Scar. Dusty has published two books of poetry, Losing Judah and The Tiniest Bit of Light. She lives in Brooklyn.

Christa Orth is a nonbinary creative non-fiction writer and historian who celebrates queer power, gender euphoria, and trans joy. Christa is the author of “Don’t Stop Me Now: How to Resist Drag Bans and Create Total Gender Liberation” (Literary Kitchen Press), and they are published in the Lambda Award-winning collection Portland Queer: Stories of LGBTQ+ Life (Microcosm Press), The Encyclopedia of American LGBT History and Culture (Scribner), Sinister Wisdom, Rea