sick lit girl

A conversation with Jess on her art practices, from digital art to woven textiles, ceramics, music, and more. We also speak about turning to art-making as an outlet and way of surviving.

Jess’s instag…

Conversation with Tata: we discuss Tito’s rule during former Yugoslavia’s communist era (Tito was in power from 1945-1980 when he died). We also speak a bit about what lead to the breakdown of Yugosl…

I discuss the Belgrade New Wave (really extended to former Jugoslavia) music and art scene of the 1980s with Tata, who knew many of its key members. Note that the audio clips were from moments both i…

I give a small introduction to Cixous, and then delve into some of my favourite fragments from her fictional work, the Book of Promethea.

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We spoke more casually and answered some questions live. Nicole and I used to date, and she is now one of my closest friends. She studies philosophy - some brief references on the pod below: 

Hegel - …

I speak about how chronic pain has impacted my creative life (and being), and some of the types of writing projects I've been turning to lately.

Included are various literary references/quotes, in ord…

From a Q&A that was live from discord for the first time. You can’t record from there unfortunately, and I’ll use better software in the future - for now it was a little muffled in moments due to mov…

My sister's first appearance on a longer episode - decided to record us on a walk together. Mostly pretty silly, though we also talk about her panic attacks and different phobias, including of crabs …

A conversation with artist Corie Waugh on how her art practice has evolved over time, and the place of the erotic in it all. Corie is based in Montreal, QC.

Website: coriewaugh.com

Instagram: corie.wau…

Fragments from the first half of Henry and June, a selection of Anaïs Nin's diaries that were initially edited out of the published volumes. They speak to her various love affairs, most prominently w…

An initial conversation with my brother-in-law (some edits to maintain privacy).

We spoke a lot that day with an alpaca farmer, she joins in for a bit too <3

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Reading from some of the sections on Anne in Thomas the Obscure that I particularly relate to and wanted to share.

I made some brief errors reading here and there - was too fatigued to keep redoing, s…

More conversations with my father, who was a filmmaker in former Jugoslavia. We discuss some film techniques initially, and I share my past film aspirations with him - he reveals just how often he’s …

Little moments of intimacy as we were waiting for our ferry...

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Conversations with Tata (my father), who was a former filmmaker in Jugoslavia. 

Referencing the music of the time, politics, documentary filmmaking, experiences during the war in the 90s when I was bo…

A little welcome.

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First of a series of readings I'd like to do ~ some prose poem excerpts by Octavio Paz

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My longest audio recording so far, and probably the most important to share... on eros and thanatos in my life. I wish to read some poems in future recordings too (maybe starting with the poetry of o…

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