Kouzen Azakamede, also known as Azaka, Zaka Mede, Zake, is the Haitian Vodoun loa/lwa of agriculture, farming, crops, harvest, healing, seeding, growing, and thoughtful cultivating of land. He is petitioned for good plentiful harvest, abundance in sharing a good harvest, productive farm work, healing of lands and people/communities through herbal and land honoring and necessary … SIGHT: Ayiti Chérie
Darling Fitch presents A Stranger Sound at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 14, at the Mudlark Public Theatre (1200 Port Street). Arising from Berlin’s queer party scene, A Stranger Sound is a dark yet affirming transgender coming-of-age story. Through music and poetry, the show leads audiences to journey through “gender dysphoria and chemical ecstasy / … Darling Fitch plus Cat Child
Press Street is pleased to host The Waves, New Orleans’ premiere LGBTQIA reading series, as it presents a showcase of queer literary talent at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 16, at the Press Street HQ (3718 St. Claude Ave.). Now in its second season, The Waves has become one of the most popular queer literary event series … The Waves Reading Series presents Foster Noone, Marisa Clogher, Jennifer Hanks, and Megan Burns on Sept. 16
Press Street is pleased to host The Waves, New Orleans’ premiere LGBT reading series, as it presents a star-studded showcase of local queer literary talent at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 14, at the Press Street HQ (3718 St. Claude Ave.). The Waves has become in its short lifetime one of the most popular queer … The Waves Reading Series presents Michael Jeffrey Lee, Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, Sara Slaughter, Julia Carey, and David Schneider May 14
Jenn Marie Nunes will publish her first full-length book, AND/OR, this spring with Switchback Books after winning the feminist press’ inaugural Queer Voices contest, judged by Dawn Lundy Martin. Jenn and I both graduated from LSU’s Creative Writing MFA program in 2009. We were each other’s first friends as we tried to navigate the weirdness … If only we didn’t try to be bigger than our hearts with our hearts: An interview with Jenn Marie Nunes
By Ari Braverman I was late telephoning Francine Prose. Thrilled by (and not a little nervous about) our impending conversation, I forgot that New York operates one full hour ahead of New Orleans. Thus I returned home from the store to a missed call from a 212 area code. Francine Prose had called—and left a … Dangerous moments: An interview with Francine Prose
