Merry Gangemi is a writer, activist, poet, editor, and all around dilettante.
Her short fiction and poetry can be found in Paterson Literary Review, Journal of New Jersey Poets, Sinister Wisdom, and Harrington Lesbian Fiction Quarterly.
She was awarded the Audre Lorde creative writing award for poetry in 1999 and currently resides in Woodbury, Vermont via San Francisco.
May 08, 2008
Amy Hoffman and Anais Mitchell on Woman-Stirred Radio
Amy Hoffman, editor-in-chief of The Woman's Review of Book,
is the author of An Army of Ex-lovers. 
She is a writer and community activist, she has been an editor at Gay Community News (GCN), South End Press, and the Unitarian Universalist World magazine. She has served on the boards of GCN, Sojourner, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), and the Boston Lesbian and Gay History Project and as a judge of the Lambda Literary Awards. Hoffman’s memoir, Hospital Time, about taking care of friends with AIDS, was published by Duke University Press in 1997. It was short-listed for the American Library Association Gay Book Award and the New York Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award, and was a New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age selection. Her memoir An Army of Ex-Lovers, about Boston's Gay Community News and the lesbian and gay movement of the late 1970s, was published by the University of Massachusetts Press. Hoffman lives in Boston with her spouse, Roberta Stone.
We broadcast live on WGDR every Thursday afternoon from 4pm to 6pm (Eastern), with interviews and music; plus weekly commentaries from British writer Nicki Hastie and guest commentary from Julie R. Enszer. Our intern is Mikhael Yowe, an IBA student at Goddard College.
April 29, 2008
Susan Werner, Rachel Jury, & Clare Summerskill!!
Rachel Jury, British writer & performance artist.
Rachel has been performing her poetry for the past seven years at a variety of locations across Britain and Europe from Brighton to Dundee to Dublin. Rachel studied acting, but is more into writing. She is in the process of writing her third collection of poetry Politics Post Postmodernism. Her second collection of poems, 'Laughin' Lesbians Vol 2' is due to be published early in 2008. She currently resides in Glasgow Scotland where she is developing her first musical “The Gates”. “Miss Smith”, her second musical is in the works . Rachel received the Jackie Forster Memorial Award for Culture, Pride Awards 2006, for outstanding contribution to culture in Scotland. From http://www.racheljury.co.uk/
Clare Summerskill is a stand-up, a writer, an actress and a singer-songwriter. 
As a Lesbian Comedienne, Clare performs an original cocktail of stand-up and comedy songs to mainly Gay and Lesbian audiences and has even been known to make straight people chuckle just a little bit!!! She brings "Dyke" humour to the forefront of alternative comedy! As a writer Clare has worked for many years in theatre and for radio. Clare has had two short stories published and she also runs comedy writing workshops.
Clare has her own professional theatre company, ARTEMIS Theatre Company. The company performs theatre to audiences who are often excluded by main stream commercial productions. Last year ARTEMIS performed a sell out National Tour of the play "GATEWAY TO HEAVEN", based entirely on the memories of older lesbians and gay men,by Clare Summerskill. From http://www.claresummerskill.co.uk/Susan Werner, songwriter and singer. 
Susan Werner was raised on a farm in rural Iowa. She studied classical voice at Temple University. Werner left behind her opera training and began performing as a singer-songwriter at coffeehouses throughout the northeast. She self-released her first album "Midwestern Saturday Night" in 1992 and then went on to put out "Live at Tin Angel" the following year. In 1995 came her breakout album, BMG/Private Music's "Last of the Good Straight Girls."
Werner went on, recording two albums even better than her previous work, adding some country and soul sounds to her signature vocal stylings with the help of Nashville multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Darrell Scott, who produced "Time Between Trains" and Colin Linden (Blackie & The Rodeo Kings), who produced her 2001 "New Non-Fiction." Werner's latest endeavor, "The Gospel Truth," a collection of originals she describes as "hymns for the spiritually ambivalent."
Susan will be playing at Ragle Hall/ Marboro College in Marboro, Vermont on May 1st.
from http://www.susanwerner.com/imagen/index.html Woman-Stirred Radio is a queer cultural journal that celebrates and preserves the lives and work of gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgendered artists, musicians, writers, academics and policy makers.We broadcast live on WGDR every Thursday afternoon from 4pm to 6pm, with interviews and music; with weekly commentaries from British writer Nicki Hastie and guest commentary from Julie R. Enszer. Our intern is Mikhael Yowe, an IBA student at Goddard College.
Want to join the conversation? Call the air studio at 802 454-7762.
April 24, 2008
Margarethe Cammermeyer & Sharron Proulx-Turner on Woman-Stirred Radio
Today on Woman-Stirred Radio, join Merry Gangemi for a double-header with Margrethe (Grethe) Cammermeyer and Sharron Proulx-Turner. Up first is Proulx-Turner at 4:15 p.m., followed by Cammermeyer at 5p.m. (Eastern).
Sharron Proulx-Turner is a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta. She’s from Mohawk, Algonquin, Wyandot, Ojibwe, Mi'kmaw, French, Scottish and Irish ancestry. She is a two-spirit mom of three adult children, Graham, Barb and Adrian, mother-in-law to Harold, and nokomis to Willow, Jessinia and Mazie. Her previously published memoir, Where the Rivers Join (1995), written under the pseudonym Beckylane, was short-listed for the Edna Staebler award for creative non-fiction, and her second book, what the auntys say (2002), was shortlisted for the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Prize for best first book of poetry. Sharron's work appears in several anthologies and journals. Proulx-Turner has two upcoming books, she is reading her blanket with her hands, (Frontenac Books, April, 2008) and she walks for days/ inside a thousand eyes/ a two-spirit story (Turnstone Press, Fall, 2008).
Grethe Cammermeyer was born in Oslo, Norway in 1942 during the Nazi occupation. Her family immigrated to the US in 1951, when Grethe was nine-years-old. She joined the army in 1961 and entered the Army Student Nurse Program. Cammermeyer served fourteen months in Vietnam.
In 1988, Colonel Cammermeyer accepted the position of Chief Nurse of the Washington State National Guard. In 1989, during an interview for top-secret clearance, to apply for the War College, she told the military "I am a lesbian". She was separated from the military despite an exemplary military and civilian professional record. On that same day, 11 June 1992, her attorneys filed suit in Federal District Court in Seattle challenging the existing ban on homosexuals in the military and requesting her reinstatement. After twenty-five months, Judge Zilly ruled that "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", a policy implemented by the Clinton administration, is unconstitutional and based on prejudice. She was reinstated in the National Guard in June,1994 and resumed her previous position as Chief Nurse. Cammermeyer retired in March 1997, after 31 years, with full military privileges.
In 1994, the feature film, Serving in Silence, based on Grethe's book of the same title, was released, starring Glenn Close as Margarethe Cammermeyer, and Judy Davis as Cammermeyer's life partner, Diane Divelbess.
Cammermeyer's story is profoundly significant to the Gay Rights movement. She successfully fought a brutal system of repressive discrimination within the U.S. military that had destroyed hundreds of thousands of lives, careers, and families. Her courage contributes mightily to our collective determination to attain both equal rights and protections under U.S. military and civil law.
Cammermeyer's interview begins at 5 p.m. (eastern).
Woman-Stirred Radio is a queer cultural journal that celebrates and preserves the lives and work of gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgendered artists, musicians, writers, academics and policy makers.
We broadcast live on WGDR every Thursday afternoon from 4pm to 6pm, with interviews and music; with weekly commentaries from British writer Nicki Hastie and guest commentary from Julie R. Enszer. Our intern is Mikhael Yowe, an IBA student at Goddard College.
Want to join the conversation? Call the air studio at 802 454-7762.
April 17, 2008
The Curious Coupling of Science & Sex: Mary Roach is Woman-Stirred!
"Here is something eerie about spinal reflexes: You don't need a brain...you don't even need to be alive. The spinal reflex known the Lazarus sign has been spooking doctors for centuries. If you trigger the right spot on the spinal cord of a freshly dead body or a beating-heart cadaver... it will stretch out its arms and then raise them and cross them over its chest" (233).
Curious? Want to know why Masters had a penis with a camera inside built? Or why that Egyptian doctor dressed seventy-five rats in polyester underpants for a year?
Tune in, then, and have some laughs while you learn some odd facts and lesser-known truths about sexual physiology and why it is still shrouded in shame and secrecy.
Obsessed as we are with sex, we still know little about the world of sex research, and so Mary Roach takes us there, from laboratories, MRI centers, bedrooms, and even a Danish pig farm. Roach brings Masters and Johnson, Alfred Kinsey, Dr. Ahmed Shafik, and others to the discussion of what is, ultimately, what brings us all here.
So. Tune in to Woman-Stirred Radio, today, Thursday, April 17th at 5:00 p.m., for an interview with Mary Roach, author of Bonk, Stiff, and Spook.
Woman-Stirred Radio is a queer cultural journal that celebrates and preserves the lives and work of gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgendered artists, musicians, writers, academics and policy makers.
We broadcast live on WGDR every Thursday afternoon from 4pm to 6pm, with interviews and music; with weekly commentaries from British writer Nicki Hastie and guest commentary from Julie R. Enszer. Our intern is Mikhael Yowe, an IBA student at Goddard College.
Want to join the conversation? Call the air studio at 802 454-7762.