Episode 5: D/Annie Liontas

Listen in as D/Annie Liontas and I discuss navigating transition on the page, writing while “on fire,” work belonging to the reader once it’s published, striking the perfect balance of research and the personal, establishing language for brain injury, 2^nd person POV, writing as resistance to erasure, turning people from your real life (living or dead) into “characters,” describing symptoms of a disability for others to understand, insomnia, crafting a collaborative essay, redaction as care, understanding that there are different ways to experience time, and lots more.

Writers/Books/Things to Check Out mentioned in this episode: T Kira Madden’s essay “Against Catharsis,” Toni Morrison, Susan Sontag, Citizen by Claudia Rankine, Paul Lisicky, Kendra Winchester, Marchell Taylor, Dr. Kim Gorgens, Couple’s Therapy, Profile on Orna Guralnik in The New Yorker, Suzanne Keen ,Virginia Woolf, “Most Anticipated Queer Books” list on Electric Lit, Sara Novic, Melissa Faliveno.

Links:

• D/Annie's Website
• Purchase Sex with a Brain Injury

Intro/Outro Music by Lin

• Lin's Bandcamp
• Lin's Spotify