A Soft Woman with a Machete (with Zulynette)

About this episode

Zulynette discusses her journey in poetry and performance, focusing on themes of rage, love, and resistance.

In this episode, we welcome poet, performer, and writer Zulynette to discuss her journey writing and performing poetry and how rage, love, and resistance shape her work. She talks about writing and performance as community practice through workshops, curated prompts, and her storytelling space focused on grief, transformation, and healing for people of the global majority and queer people. We discuss Zulynette’s books, including her latest book, Becoming a Soft Woman with a Machete. 00:00 W...

People in this episode

Host: Tayler Simon

Guest: Zulynette

Topics covered

• poetry
• performance
• community practice
• grief
• transformation
• healing
• queer identity

Keywords

• poet
• performance
• community workshops
• storytelling
• queer
• grief
• transformation
• healing

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Becoming a Soft Woman with a Machete

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