©A.K. Summers
Put down yer chia pudding and pick up a copy of the July/August issue of the Women’s Review of Books! It features a new comic by yours truly in which Butcheye the Sailor Lassie (with some assistance from Sojourner Truth) offers a waterlogged but incisive consideration of the Womink problem. Check it out online!
http://muthamagazine.com/2016/05/those-other-nurses-a-nursing-while-butch-comic-by-a-k-summers/
Is your mama a llama? Or perhaps she’s a nurse-fancier? Nursing While Butch II: Those Other Nurses, is up at Mutha Magazine.
©1992 A.K. Summers
Tintin, Tom of Finland and Beyond: How I Came to Comics through Alt Masculinity and Bad Sex
Didja know I used to do a zine in which characters regularly appeared without trousers? I will be giving a talk on the angry 1990s sex rant that was negativa and the influence on my work of alternative comics and zines such as Love & Rockets, Eightball, Tom of Finland, G.B. Jones, Straight to Hell and more.
Tuesday, March 8, 2016, 7 PM.
Interference Archive
131 8th Street — #4
Brooklyn, NY 11215
©A.K. Summers (Pregnant Butch, 2014, Soft Skull Counterpoint)
Here’s the piece you’ve been waiting for on non-normative gender parenting!
Beyond Mom ‘n’ Pop by Andrea Bennett and Kim Fu, in Hazlitt Magazine. Should I be surprised that the authors are Canadian?
Here I am with Nicole Georges, Phoebe Gloeckner (who took this iconic bathroom mirror photo), and Hillary Chute. See? It really happened. It was a stellar panel. Thanks to all of you at Northeastern Illinois University and especially Alicia Erian for organizing!
Nicole Georges, Phoebe Gloeckner, Hillary Chute, AK Summers prepping for talk at Northeastern Illinois University
This is kinda late for me to be posting this but…TONIGHT I’m on a panel with Phoebe Gloeckner and Nicole Georges at Northeastern Illinois University, moderated by real-deal, I’m-not-making-this-up, Professional Comics Scholar, Professor Hillary Chute! This should be a great big wide-open vat of a talk. Thrills ‘n spills with nibbage to spare! Open, as it should be, to the comics-concerned public.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 6-8 p.m.
NEIU Auditorium
3701 W Bryn Mawr Ave
Chicago, IL 60646
Free, No Tickets Required
Complimentary parking in Lot F or Levels 4 & 5 of the parking garage
http://neiu.edu/university-life/arts-northeastern/visiting-writers-series/graphic-novelists-panel
Here’s a little comic about my new favorite band Curtain of Udders, just up on Mutha Magazine.
http://muthamagazine.com/2015/02/nursing-while-butch-a-comic-by-a-k-summers/
A review of Pregnant Butch in PRINT…wotta concept! If you wanna read it, go to the library or subscribe.
http://www.wcwonline.org/Women-s-Review-of-Books/womens-review-of-books
Last month, I met with Hillary Frank of WNYC’s The Longest Shortest Time and we talked of things pregnant and butch. http://longestshortesttime.com/2014/10/15/podcast-41-how-to-be-a-pregnant-butch/
The Longest Shortest Time is a WNYC podcast for all of you hollow-eyed ghouls who find yourselves up in the middle of the night (not by choice). I heard of it because, after my book came out with its Spiritual Midwifery-bashing chapter, a friend asked me if I’d heard Hillary Frank’s podcast about Ina May Gaskin. I hadn’t. I looked it up and was astonished. Hillary had the chutzpah and decency to actually call up Ina May Gaskin and challenge the legendary midwife-author about her promise of “ecstatic childbirth” in S.M., among other things. Of course, I had my own different bone to pick with Ina May, but I took the sneaky bomb-throwing, comic-drawing route instead. #whyimnotajournalist http://longestshortesttime.com/2014/04/16/podcast-28-the-missing-chapter-to-ina-mays-guide/
PB not pictured.
I will be reading in Portland, Oregon this August 8 with Nicole J. Georges, author-artist of Calling Dr. Laura. Though Nicole self-describes as “barren,” she just took home the Best Graphic Novel prize from Lambda Lit.
One queer’s barren is another queer’s fertile abundance!
Pregnant Butch & Nicole J. Georges
Friday, August 8 at 7:00pm in PDT
Independent Publishing Resource Center
1001 SE Division St
Portland, Oregon
97202 USA
(503) 827-0249
http://www.iprc.org
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