By Tamara Jong
On this week’s episode of Bookish Radio, Charlotte Henay shares her profound work with us, talks ritual, mentors, some of her early influences, and holding each other up as BIPOC in community.
Bio: Charlotte Henay is a storyteller and researcher. She works with poetry, lyric and visual essays in writing about cultural memory to counter extinction myths. Her poem “for my sister” was featured in Turtle Island Responds, a series that gives writers the opportunity to respond to current events. Henay’s professional background in critical race theory and her personal experience of being exiled inform her work and journey through the interstices of blackness and indigeneity, imagining Afro-Indigenous futurities. Her writing has appeared in Demeter Press’s Mothers & Daughters, C-Magazine, No More Potlucks, Feral Feminisms, and Decolonization, Indigeneity, Education, and Society.
Links to Charlotte’s work
https://roommagazine.com/writing/my-sister
https://roommagazine.com/blog/we-got-next-emerging-black-writers-you-should-be-paying-attention
Some references from the interview
https://joninakirton.wixsite.com/poet
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Saidiya Hartman
Swallow The Fish Gabrielle Civil
M Archive Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Some of my current reads
The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamieson
Black Writers Matter Edited by Whitney French
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
We, Old Young Ones Dominik Parisien
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