Live Through This editor Sabrina Chapadjiev to talk on women, creativity and self-destruction, at London’s Feminist Library
Talk starts: 7.30pm, Friday 22 May
(The Library will be opened specially from 7.00pm for visitors to look around)
The Feminist Library, 2nd floor meeting room, 5 Westminster Bridge Road SE1 7XW
Nearest tubes: Waterloo, Elephant and Castle, Lambeth North
It’s free! But any donations to Sabrina or the Library would be very welcome.
Free drinks and snacks will also be available
Sabrina Chapadjiev, editor of Live Through This (Seven Stories Press, May 2008) will give her only London talk on the relationship between creativity and self-destruction, as part of a UK tour.
Live Through This is a fearless exploration of women’s silent rage, the power that can come from internal struggle, and the possibility of transforming this burning force into fierce and enlightened work.
In a collection of original stories, essays, artwork, and photography, Nan Goldin, Eileen Myles, bell hooks, and other cutting-edge artists explore their use of art to survive madness, abuse, incest, depression. Together they show that creative women are not destined to the fate of lost visionaries such as Woolf, Sexton, Arbus, and Plath. The book confronts the brutality many women and girls encounter in the world around them, and bravely takes as its subject the often misunderstood violence they at times inflict upon themselves.
Sabrina will be discussing the themes that came up when she was editing the pieces with the authors.
About the book:
Published in the USA by Seven Stories Press.
Contributors include: Nan Goldin, bell hooks, Patricia Smith, Cristy Road, Carol Queen, Annie Sprinkle, Elizabeth Stephens, Carolyn Gage, Eileen Myles, Fly, Diane DiMassa, Bonfire Madigan, Inga Muscio, Kate Bornstein, Toni Blackman, Nicole Blackman, Silas Howard, Daphne Gottlieb and Stephanie Howell
More information about the book and contributors is available at Sabrina’s website
More info about the Feminist Library at their directory entry: fl.htm