This week I’ve been sharing my conversations with the writers of FIERCE: Essays by and About Dauntless Women*. On today’s Story Saturday, you’ll finally get to hear from all thirteen of them.
FIERCE won the Book Life Prize and the Nautilus Book Award. Publisher’s Weekly will be featuring the book in a story this month. What makes FIERCE unique is that the women who wrote these essays all have a personal connection to the historical women they wrote about. When Karyn Kloumann of Nauset press dreamed up the idea for this book, she realized that this connection would be crucial in helping both the writers and readers understand why these stories matter today. But it’s also created a community of women who admire, celebrate, and encourage each other.
You can purchase a copy of the award-winning anthology, FIERCE: Essays by and About Dauntless Women here.
Trigger warning: while there’s nothing graphic in this episode, some of these women have been through some hard stuff. There are mentions of self-harm, genocide, and rape. But there’s a lot of good stuff, too.
*ADDITIONAL NOTES: Taté’s pronouns are they/them (see addendum bonus recording at shelterinplacepodcast.info to hear this discussed in greater detail by Edissa Nicolás-Huntsman and Taté. I have included the correct pronouns in brackets in the episode transcript.
The discussion on "Origins" opens in media res with Taté talking about their first experience in a sweat lodge. “The house” that Taté mentions refers to the group home where Taté was living at the time of this story. They give further context to this experience later in the episode.
Complete show notes at shelterinplacepodcast.info.
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