Susan Stinson
Recent EventsFull Body Symposium Saturday, November 3rd, 2007 R. Michelson Galleries Northampton, MA Reading as part of a day of events in conjunction with the publication of the Full Body Project Book, photographs by Leonard Nimoy. With Leslea Newman, Abby Ellin and Kelli Dunham. Discussion of Spider in a Tree October 10, 2007 Sexuality and History in the Contemporary Novel Instructor: Judith Frank Amherst College, Amherst, MA Jonathan Edwards and the Environment Conference Reading, Saturday, October 6, 3:20-4:10 Conference October 5-7 First Churches, Northampton, MA Jonathan Edwards in Europe participant Karoli Gaspar University Budapest, Hungary May 7-9, 2007 Popular Culture in the Fat Studies Reader with Amy Farrell, Esther Rothblum, 781 Fat Studies IX Northeastern Room Sat April 7,2:30-4 pm Marriot Copley Place Boston, MA February 21, 2007 Fat Liberation Workshop, Intro to Cultural Anthropology 11-12:15, Reese building, room 304 Instructor: Chaia Heller Mt. Holyoke College South Hadley, MA October 7, 2006 Reading: 2 pm (events all day) Jonathan Edwards Conference First Churches Northampton, MA August 11-13, 2006 San Francisco, CA Reading Assoc. for Size Diversity and Health Conference June 23-25, 2006 Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH Smith College, Northampton, MA Reading and speaking Sunday, April 9, 12:30-1:30 Davis Ballroom Smith College, Northampton, MA Reading Love Your Body Day Sat, February 18, 2 pm Campus Center Saturday, September 17, 2005, 4pm. A.P.E. Gallery, 3rd floor Thornes, Main St., Northampton. Toni Brown, Janet Mason, Janet Aalfs, Sally Bellerose, and Susan Stinson. Cabaret July 9, 2005, 6 pm Food for Thought Books Amherst, MA 106 N.Pleasant Street Amherst, MA 01002 Tel: 413-253-5432 Out@ Wednesday, June 15 with Stacey D'Erasmo, Damian McNicholl and Alison Smith Time/ May 1, 2005 -- Book signing, Northampton Pride Rally Location: Pride&Joy Booth, Veteran's Field Road, Northampton, MA Time: 2:30-3 April 28, 2005—Lambda Award Reading —New York Location: New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Center, 208 West 13th St. NW Time: 7 - 9 p.m. Thursday, March 17, 7pm A Different Light Bookstore 489 Castro St. San Francisco, CA Tuesday, March 15, 7pm The Laurel Bookstore 4100 Macarthur Blvd Oakland, CA Saturday March 12, 2005: Writers with Drinks Spoken Word Variety Show The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA 7:30-9:30 pm Sunday, February 13, 2005 Savage Beauties Benefit for the Millay Colony Barbes 376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave.) Park Slope, Brooklyn 3-6 pm |
EventsReadings Passionate performances of fiction and poetry that run on powerful language and a wide-ranging aesthetic sensibility. Workshops Explicit, liberating, painful and wonderful! I've never heard anything like it. -Stonewall Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Body Language - Explore the possibilities for joy in the body (all bodies!) and responses to discrimination based on size using analysis, poetry, writing exercises and discussion. Writing Fiction - Use the evidence of the senses, writing exercises, and the example of great art to find ways to give charactacters the things they need to be fully human. Writing Coaching - Individual sessions designed to help writers set goals, plan projects, identify specific steps, and discover what inspires them to keep working. Single session or monthly follow up available. For info on rates and availability for readings, workshops and coaching, email susan@ (or use the email link in Quick Links on the right.) What people say about an event with Susan "If you ever get the opportunity to hear author Susan Stinson read, run -- frantically -- and get a good seat. Stinson had the unique gift of taking her lilting, beautiful prose and flowing poetry and caressing the words with her sensuous, exciting voice. I saw her reading recently in San Francisco and was startled by her incredible power to lift her own words from the page, translating them into a stunning, energized performance. Susan Stinson is not just a writer of considerable talent, she is an event." - Icon Magazine, Toronto "Because of the emotional impact of her work, people grasped the issues more quickly than usual, and talked with great candor about their lives and their feelings." - Miriam Berg, Council on Size and Weight Discrimination "Stinson almost sings the words, moves to them, makes her hands dance. And by doing this, she breaks taboos...Go hear her, and you will think differently about fat." - Daily Hampshire Gazette "Susan Stinson articulates all of the emotions and insights of growing up in a fat body, but also charts a path through the wilderness of self-hatred into healing and self-love." - NAAFA Newsletter "Gorgeously abundant and abundantly gorgeous are the words that come to mind when I think of Susan Stinson and her writing. She is a passionate, powerful and sensual reader, and anyone lucky enough to hear her will never forget her." - Leslea Newman, author |
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