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[November 17, 2023] PERFORMA Biennial 2023

November 1, 2023

I’m honored to be performing new work at Healthcare Not Warfare: A Tragi-comedy. FRI 11/18 for the @performanyc Biennial! Masks are strongly encouraged + provided on premises. Thank you amazing Gregg Bordowitz & incredible powerhouse & friend, @pamela_sneed for curating this set of wonders and for this invitation. Tickets are $10-$15 & let me know if you want comps…

[October 29, 2023: LGBTQ+ Writers Weekend Hosted by Grub Street

October 22, 2023

VIRTUALSUNDAY 10/294:30pm ET Join me for @grubwriters LGBTQ+ Festival! Closing Ceremony with new work & surrounded by incredible queer talents. I’ll be virtual on Massachusett, Wampanoag, & Nipmuc Peoples’ land aka Boston. Join this queer lovely time & grateful for Grubstreet for hosting me with these talents. Via @grubwriters–Close out the 2023 LGBTQ+ Writers’ Weekend with a reading…

[June 12, 2023] Poetry Unbound + Queer Pride

June 12, 2023

June has been glorious & exhausting! Thank you to @onbeing for featuring my sad childhood pantoum & making me cry tears of artistic affirmation! 💜To experience this feature of my poem, go here. Gratitude to @onbeing + @padraigotuama.

[May 18, 2023] Featured in Autostraddle + DapperQ

May 18, 2023

In “dapperQ Style: Ungendering Fashion,” Queer Style Is Centered and Celebrated Thank you so much Anita for including my ideas and for curating such a sharp and beautifully queer anthology. ID: bold text “How Can We Be Resourceful and Accessible and Not Enforce Those Dominant Abled, Cultured Ways?” By @dapperq + @anitadolcevita + @autostraddle. Brown round queer with blue sunglasses…

[April 4, 2023] Split This Rock: Poem of the Week

April 5, 2023

Split This Rock’s red logo is above bold black text, which reads “Poem of the Week.” Three red dots are centered below. Content Notice: medical trauma; pain; refers to ableism & pandemic Sick pastoral: a sick ecology poemby Kay Ulanday Barrett For Geleni Fontaine and Bilen Berhanu Then how does candy spill? This way? Stare…

[December 22, 2022] The Massachusetts Review

December 15, 2022

Volume 63, Issue 4 Read Kay’s Poem directly here. WHEN AUDRE LORDE was faced with the possibility of a new tumor in her liver in November 1986, she went to Barnes & Noble for more information. “In those hours in the stacks of Barnes & Noble, I felt myself shifting into another gear,” she writes…

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

October 26, 2022

Hello everyone, Many thanks to wonderful host and essayist Jordan Kisner for Thresholds on Literary Hub. Here, I talk about writing essays and poems and share some of my writing that amplifies how food is a conduit to community and to familial connection. “Before the Words Became Pages, We Were Eating.” Why Kay Ulanday Barrett’s…

[August 2022] New Scars, Same Gender

August 23, 2022

“After I had my uterus removed during an emergency hysterectomy last year, everyone I knew wanted to congratulate me. I understood the intention; for many transmasc and nonbinary folks, a hysterectomy constitutes a rite of passage, an avenue to a new form of freedom — a gender oasis from being perceived as a cisgender woman.…

[September 2020] Eat Good for Me: An Essay on Your Late Mother’s Birthday

September 18, 2020

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February 27, 2017 | Performance & Workshop: Williams College!

February 27, 2017

FEATURE: Kay Ulanday Barrett Kay Ulanday Barrett is coming to Williams! On March 1st, at 4:30pm, Kay and the Office of Accessible Education will be hosting a panel in Griffin 3 speaking to disability and access at Williams and beyond, the specific ways these experiences and structural histories affect queer/trans people, people of color,…

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