This poem explores cultural and colonial conflict, national, religious and gender identity and is a conversation to my inner child <3
This episode focuses on my poem 'Fluidity' and the exploration of being 'alive' <3 This episode is also available as a blog post: https://freereinfool.wordpress.com/2017/08/27/fluidity/
This episode focuses on two poems, 'paper boat' and 'Dandelion', that discus ideas of fearfulness or being unapologetic for emotion and existence - both draw on ideas of the sanctity of childhood ideology and innocent days and how that can be turned askew or obscured when growing older. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://freereinfool.wordpress.com/2021/08/05/paper-boat/ and https://freereinfool.wordpress.com/2020/12/22/dandelion/
This episode will focus on the tale of Artemis and Callisto and discusses queer women's love within Greek mythology, as part of my Greek mythology poetry for Pride series <3 TW: this tale discusses Zeus' deceitful rape of Callisto. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://freereinfool.wordpress.com/2021/06/23/ursa-major/
A modern-day rendering of the tale of Galatea (and Pygmalion) from a non-binary perspective as part of my Pride series focusing on Greek mythology <3 This episode is also available as a blog post: https://freereinfool.wordpress.com/2021/05/20/the-vessel-my-hands-not-yours/
The inaugural episode of the Free Rein Fool podcast, celebrating Pride month, focuses on my poem 'The Warrior' which gravitates around Greek mythology's emblematic queer couple, Achilles and Patroclus <3 This episode is also available as a blog post: https://freereinfool.wordpress.com/2021/04/24/the-archer/