Saturday, November 9, 2013. How it Feels to Force-Feed. The intubation of prisoners on hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay, the use of force-feeding to stifle dissent, took on a disturbing clarity for me in the process of becoming a registered nurse. I had to ask myself how a nurse, in the context of the prison system, could agree to perform an act of torture. Limits surely there are to the subservience even of those who must sternly execute the law. In the United States, 1 in every 32 resid.

Monday, August 3, 2015. Margarita, you make me smile; I can imagine us being pen pals when we were little, fancying ourselves cosmopolitan intellectuals. Thursday, August 21, 2014. Three Questions to Three Women Writers, or Russians on Russian. Olga Livshin, Head of the Russian Program at Boston University, was born in 1978 in Odessa but now lives .

Naked Heart takes place on November 11th, 12th and 13th, 2016. Launched in 2015, Naked Heart is already the largest and most diverse LGBTQ literary festival in the world with over 2000 attendees. In 2015, we had over 120 writers present at 47 events. Check out the LIST OF AUTHORS.

Performance, video, installation, text, book arts. Osmium, Tungsten, Dionaea, Lavandula. The Sadie and Vedette Penny Arcade. What is behind the curtain? The clock of my heart kept ticking. The dancing magpies, the accident, the spiders beneath the stairs. The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever.

Three weeks ago, I attended WisCon.