In this episode Calpi, Clay & Todd talk with Queer & Genderqueer Author, Dog Trainer & Freelance Writer Sassafras (Lowrey) Patterdale. Their first book, Kicked Out, is an anthology written by & about the experiences of unhoused queer youth. When Kicked Out was first published back in 2010 around 40% of unhoused youth openly identified as LGBTQ+. In the face of the recent Grants Pass v Johnson ruling and aggressive rollback of civil rights for BIPOC, trans, and queer people, we find ourselves terrified over what the youth not face.
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Sassafras is a celebrated author whose queer and leather books (Roving Pack, A Little Queermas Carol, Leather Ever After, and Lost Boi) have been honored by the American Library Association, the Lambda Literary Foundation, the International Leather Association- Writing Awards. Sassafras’ work regularly appears in leading magazines/publications, and Sassafras has taught queer storytelling workshops at colleges, conferences, bookstores, festivals, and squats from Atlanta to Berlin to NYC to Oakland to Amsterdam. The film rights to Sassafras’ queer leather novel Lost Boi were recently optioned!!
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You can find links to Sassafras’s writings, projects, and social media here:
Website: https://sassafraspatterdale.com/
Sassafras’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SassafrasPatterdale
Kicked Out: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7717332-kicked-out
Additional Links
p:ear Mentor Center: https://www.pearmentor.org
Transponder Community Resources: https://transponder.community
Center for American Progress – Federal Response to Gay & Transgender Homeless Youth [PDF]: https://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/issues/2010/06/pdf/lgbtyouthhomelessness.pdf
DHS Now Allows for Surveillance based on Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/dhs-now-allows-for-surveillance-based
What to know about the Tate brothers, social media influencers who face trafficking charges: https://apnews.com/article/romania-andrew-tristan-tate-travel-ban-lifted-3c8b56be5d99f9ed04045f4680e5f8c0