Intimate Interactions

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 I’m excited to share this grant-writing, money-winning, queer femme poet’s ideas with you on Intimate Interactions!