About this episode
Lori Selke discusses their multifaceted career as an ESL instructor, writer, and activist.
By day, Lori Selke is an ESL instructor (and stealth adjunct composition instructor) who lives in Oakland, California. But beneath that wholesome and mild-mannered facade lurks a zine veteran, an education and social justice academic, a queer writer and activist, and a general thorn in the side of normativity. Their fiction has been previously published in Nightmare Magazine , Strange Horizons , and Asimov's ; their nonfiction has appeared at NPR.org, Offbeat Home , The Billfold , and the SF Weekly , as well as the open-access academic journals Refuge and the International Journal of Human Rights Education . This story originally appeared in Outlaw Bodies (2012). Narration by: Will Stagl Will Stagl lives in Tucson, Arizona and is a proud member of the StarShipSofa team. He’s like to kick off the new year by inviting any listeners interested in narration to contact him at williamstagl@gmail.com to join our stellar team of volunteer voice actors. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
People in this episode
Host: Will Stagl
Guest: Lori Selke
Topics covered
- ESL education
- queer activism
- fiction writing
- social justice
- narration
- zines
Keywords
- Lori Selke
- ESL instructor
- queer writer
- social justice
- narration
- fiction
- zines
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Nightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, Asimov's, NPR.org, Offbeat Home, The Billfold, SF Weekly, Refuge, International Journal of Human Rights Education
Books & works: Outlaw Bodies
Places: Oakland, California, Tucson, Arizona
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