Practice development at Writing& Mapping, Writing&Control workshops at Arnolfini, Bristol, 2012-2013.  Part of Performance Writing series with MA Performance Writing lecturers Jerome Fletcher and Melanie Thompson.

“From within the living structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts or pleasant pastimes, feelings we expected to kneel to men. But women have survived. As poets. And there are no new pains. We have felt them already. We have hidden the fact in the same place where we have hidden our power. They surface in our dreams, and it is our dreams that point the way to freedom. They are made realisable through our poems that give us the strength and courage to see, to feel, to speak, and to dare.”

Audre Lorde - Poetry is not a Luxury.

Currently inspired by: Melissa Febos, adrienne maree brown, Lama Rod Owens, Toko-Pa Turner, Audre Lorde, Ross Gay, Thomas Moore, Cody Cook-Parrott, Sarah Winman.