“I need it, so I’ll have to build it” is where the queer community began in the 60s and the feminist community in the 70s. The disabled community are doing right now. This is partly what So Lucky is about.
Read moreToday both my career as a novelist and my MS are officially 25 years old.
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This weekend the Guardian did a 6-page spread on Visible Girls: Revisited, the retrospective-and-redo of the famous 1981 series. Here’s a playlist of the music I was listening to when that original photo was taken.
Read moreInternational Women’s Day is the anniversary of the very first performance of my long-ago band, Janes Plane. Here’s how I framed that story in my memoir, And Now We Are Going to Have a Party.
Read moreI got this yesterday: video put together by Lou Duffy-Howard, bassist extraordinaire, for “Bare Hands,” a track recorded by Janes Plane, the band I was in, in 1982. I was 21.
Read moreHere’s a playlist of the nine songs included in the CD inside And Now We Are Going to Have a Party.
Read more33 years ago today, International Women’s Day 1982, my band, Janes Plane, debuted…
Read moreI just got these old, old photos (I was twenty-one) by email this morning from a Facebook friend (thanks, Margot). I don’t…
Read moreTo coincide with International Women’s Day, the judges of the this year’s Orange Prize (the UK’s only annual book award for fiction…
Read moreDead Kennedys, The Damned, The Undertones, Cocteau Twins, Killing Joke, Stiff Little Fingers, and my band, Janes Plane. What do we all…
Read moreYesterday was International Women’s Day. Which also happens to be the anniversary of the very first performance of my long-ago band, Janes…
Read moreWhat do I think of Amazon’s latest attempt at PR? Not a lot. Judge for yourself. This is Amazon spokesman Drew Herdener…
Read moreMy computer is old. My software is broken. My brain is tired. Which is my way of saying: I still haven’t worked…
Read moreThe view from our window. I’ve just got back from time on the Olympic Peninsula with Kelley, my sister Anne and her…
Read moreToday is International Women’s Day. It is also the 27th anniversary of the very first gig of my long-ago band, Janes Plane….
Read moreThis is a melancholy song, drenched in nostalgia. I wrote the original lyrics when I was 17 at the same time as…
Read moreThe last few days I’ve been thinking about England. (Last week was the 19th anniversary of coming to this country to live…
Read moreYesterday was the nineteenth anniversary of me coming to live with Kelley in this country. You’ve already heard the sappy song I…
Read moreOkay, after a day of rest and turkey I got all contemplative, so this is going to be a long one. Today’s…
Read moreI was going to do a reading from Always this week but circumstances, i.e., an evil virus, has removed that option. So…
Read moreI was going to do a reading but after yesterday’s screed I thought we could all do with a bit of music….
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