Sassafras Lowrey
CONTACT INFORMATION:
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BIOGRAPHY:
Sassafras Lowrey is a genderqueer high femme author, artist, and activist. Ze is a militant storyteller who believes that everyone has a story to tell, and that the telling of those stories is essential in order to create social change. Sassafras works as a freelance writer for various LGBTQ publications, and hir visual art has been showcased in conferences and galleries across the United States, including the “Fresh Meat” Gallery in San Francisco, and the legendary “Southern Comfort” Conference in Atlanta.
Sassafras earned hir bachelor’s degree from Portland State University and focused on queer media studies, and storytelling of the oppressed. Ze is an accomplished zinester and storyteller and was an original member of the spoken word performance group “The Language of Paradox” founded and directed by Kate Bornstein. Sassafras is a contributing author for LGBTQ: America Today a three-volume 600,000 word encyclopedia from Greenwood Press, and hir first book GSA to Marriage: Stories of a Life Lived Queerly is scheduled for release from Homofactus Press in the summer of 2008.
As a teenager Sassafras experienced homelessness, ze was forced to leave hir mother’s home after suffering physical violence after coming out as queer and later was kicked out of the home of an adult friend when hir queerness was again discovered. During this time ze became active in queer culture, finding hir way to queer youth organizations and movements, which provided community and saved hir life. As an adult, ze has never forgotten the personal impact of those groups, and is committed to making the world a safer place for the queer youth of today. Ze lives in New York City with hir partner, two puddle cats, and a princess dog.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Kicked Out is a new anthology, which uniquely seeks to tell the tales of former queer youth and current queer youth who were forced to leave home because of their sexuality and/or gender identity. This anthology will tell our collective stories of survival, weaving together descriptions of abuse, and homelessness with poignant accounts of the ways in which queer community centers offered sanctuary, and the power and importance of creating our own chosen families in the face of losing everything we have ever known. (Read more here)
