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episode 8: Morgan M Page

Episode Summary

A conversation with writer, performance + video artist, and activist Morgan M Page.

Episode Notes

I talk with Morgan M Page about everything from creative collaborations and her trans history podcast One From the Vaults to writing mtf4ftm noir-influenced fiction and the desire to have writer/filmmaker Virginie Despentes spit in your face.

Links and works related to Morgan M Page that are mentioned or relevant to the conversation: 

• her website 
• her Twitter
• her Instagram
• One from the Vaults, particularly the Valentine's Day episode (OFTV 4) on trans man Michael Dillon and his doomed romance with trans woman Roberta Cowell
• Valley of the D (her substack)
• Framing Agnes (forthcoming feature film co-written with Chase Joynt, who also directs)
• "Rental" (a short story she published in Plenitude in 2015)
• “Visions” (a short story she published in Meanwhile, Elsewhere, ed. Casey Plett and Cat Fitzpatrick, Topside Press, 2017)
• At Land, a chapbook novella published in 2014.
• “The Black Cube,” Procyon Science Fiction Anthology, ed. Jeanne Thornton, Tayen Lane Publishing, 2016.
• "Funny Hawaiian Toni Morrison" (her review of Ryka Aoki's novel He Mele A Hilo: A Hilo Song) published in TSQ in 2015
• Her review of Small Beauty by Jia Qing Wilson-Yang, published by Lambda Literary in 2016
• “One From the Vaults,” in Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (edited by Reina Gossett, Eric Stanley, Johanna Burton), MIT Press/The New Museum. October 2017
• “Never Be New Again: Resisting the intoxicating trans first,” Valley of the D, 2021
• “The forgotten legacy of trans artist and activist Mirha-Soleil Ross,” Dazed Digital, February 2019
• “Aiyyana Maracle,” Queer Bible, November 2017
• "Numinous and Moving: The Rapture of Nina Arsenault," Valley of the D, 2021

A list of some people and works that are mentioned during our conversation (try to keep up!): 

• Chase Joynt, including the recent documentary No Ordinary Man, which he co-wrote and co-directed
• Max Disgrace
• Bryn Kelly
• Kyle Lukoff
• Mirha-Soleil Ross
• Glenn Copeland, including the recent documentary about him, Keyboard Fantasies
• Lynn Conway
• Candy Darling
• Jackie Curtis
• Holly Woodlawn
• Viviane Namaste, particularly her book Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People (2000)
• Sylvia Rivera
• Marsha P. Johnson
• Tourmaline
• Nina Arsenault
• We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan (2019), edited by Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma
• Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be a Man Among Men (2017) by Brice D Smith
• Silas Howard, particularly By Hook or By Crook (2001), the film he co-wrote and co-directed with Harry Dodge
• Harry Dodge's book My Meteorite (2020)
• Max Wolf Valerio
• Zackary Drucker, particularly The Lady and the Dale, the documentary series about Liz Carmichael that she co-directed
• Angelica Ross
• Stephen Ira
• Reed Erickson
• Greer Lankton
• the TV series Pose
• the film Tangerine (2015)
• Imogen Binnie's novel Nevada (2013)
• Torrey Peters' novel Detransition, Baby (2021)
• David Lynch
• Maya Deren
• Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Dennis Cooper
• Kathy Acker
• Sarah Schulman
• Lana Del Rey
• the documentary Disclosure (2020)
• Ryka Aoki's novels  He Mele a Hilo: A Hilo Song (2014) and Light From Uncommon Stars (2021)
• Casey Plett's short story collection A Safe Girl To Love (2014)
• Topside Press
• David Wojnarowicz
• Jordy Rosenberg's novel Confessions of the Fox (2018)
• jia qing wilson-yang's novel Small Beauty (2016)
• Shola von Reinhold's novel LOTE (2020)
• Saidiya Hartman's book Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments (2020)
• Virginie Despentes, including her book King Kong Theory (2006)
• Paul B. Preciado's book Testo Junkie (2008)
• ORIGINAL PLUMBING: The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture (2019), an anthology edited by Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos
• Aiyyana Maracle
• Xanthra Phillippa Mackay, including the zine Gendertrash from Hell (1993-95), which she co-edited with Mirha-Soleil Ross
• Jake Pyne
• Rupert Raj
• Roz Kaveney
• Jackie Shane
• Miss Major

Photo of Morgan M Page by Max Herridge.

The podcast theme song is "Tall Girl" by Wares from the album Survival, which you can (and probably should) get via Bandcamp. (This song appears courtesy of Wares and Mint Records.)

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