Скачать или смотреть 007 Queer Memoir + Rhizomes with Serena Chopra

Serena Chopra (she/her) is a teacher, writer, dancer, filmmaker, and a visual and performance artist. She has a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Denver and is a MacDowell Fellow, a Kundiman Fellow, and a Fulbright Scholar. She has two books, This Human (Coconut Books 2013) and Ic (Horse Less Press 2017), as well as two films, Dogana//Chapti (Official Selection at Frameline43, Oregon Documentary Film Festival, and Seattle Queer Film Festival), and Mother Ghosting (2018). She was a featured artist in Harper's Bazaar (India) as well as in the Denver Westword’s “100 Colorado Creatives.” She has recent publications in Sink, Foglifter, Matters of Feminist Practice, and the anthology Alone Together: Love, Grief and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19 (Central Avenue Publishing). In October 2020, Serena co-directed No Place to Go, an artist-made queer haunted house with Kate Speer and Frankie Toan. Serena is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Seattle University.

In this episode, Serena and Brandi talk about the intersections of Queer Memoir + Rhizomes, including:

How Serena sees contradictions as “the situation of life.”
How queer narratives don’t have to be “legible” or easily consumable.
The ways we repress our visionary intuitions in order to fit inside of institutions.
The difference between “arborescent” versions of intelligence, and “rhizomatic” versions of intelligence.
Serena’s story of growing up in ballet and later struggling to let herself go in her dance and artistic practice, but how poetry eventually helped her understand modern dance and other, more “rhizomatic” ways of being.
The best advice she’s ever had, which came from a dance teacher—and, let me tell you, it’s a doozy—by FAR my favorite piece of this conversation.
And so much more.

Listeners can find Serena online at:
Her website: https://www.serenachopra.com/
Instagram: @serena_rose_chopra http://www.serenachopra.com/

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