PODCAST:

METAFORMIA
with Host JUDY GRAHN

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Judy Grahn, Ph.D., is an internationally known poet, writer, and social theorist. Her work underpins several movements, including Gay, Lesbian, and Queer; Feminist/Woman-Centered; and Women’s Spirituality, but it has spread far beyond any of these.

Blood, Bread and Roses by Judy Grahn Judy currently serves as Associate Core Faculty for the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, California, in their Women's Spirituality Master's Program. She is former director of Women’s Spirituality MA and Creative Inquiry MFA programs at New College of California, from which she resigned in July of 2007. Judy teaches writing, Metaformic Consciousness (her own philosophy), women’s mythology and ancient literature, and Uncommon Kinship (with Luisah Teish)—a diversity course using testimony, ritual, symbolism, and a Metaformic philosophical approach.

Judy Grahn behind the camera Judy Grahn does presentations and performs her work, especially with singer/songwriter Anne Carol Mitchell. She collaborates with dancer/choreographer Anne Bluethenthal. She collaborates with Dianne E. Jenett on Serpentina: Women-Centered Research for Everyone, sponsoring events, publications, mentoring groups, and study trips to South India.

Judy holds an earned Ph.D. in Integral Studies with an Emphasis in Women’s Spirituality from California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Her work has won awards: an NEA Grant, an American Book Review award, an American Book Award, an American Library Award; a Lifetime Achievement Award (in Lesbian Letters), a Founding Foremother of Women’s Spirituality Award. Triangle Publishers feature a “Judy Grahn Nonfiction Award”.

Another Mother Tongue by Judy Grahn Seattle Gay Day Parade of 1999 was based on Judy’s book, Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds. She co-edits (with Deborah J. Grenn) and writes for her online journal, Metaformia: A Journal of Menstruation and Culture, viewable at www.Metaformia.org.