- Had the pleasure of sitting down with Adele Barclay
- Stranger to me so we take some time sussing each other out
- Queer femme
- Poet focusing on intimacy and power
- Published: “If I were in a cage, I’d reach out for you” is already out
- Has a grant for her second book “Renaissance Normcore”
- We talk about
- The ethics of vulnerability
- Articulating vulnerability and the ways we protect ourselves in the process
- Speaking plainly and the intimacy that brings in written art
- The intimacy of domesticity
- Authenticity when living with people who know you (like partners)
- The way we mask intimacy when living with strangers
- Performance of intimacy
- Stuff sometimes gets in the way
- Ways of performing intimacy authentically
- As a memory
- To me, touching a shape inside and describing its feeling
- The effort and quality of the performance for me determines how intimately it comes across
- that’s easier to do the first time you touch that shape inside
- when it’s new and interesting and raw
- I’m excited to share this grant-writing, money-winning, queer femme poet’s ideas with you on II!
