This is the presentation I wrote for the Spring/Summer 2022 collection, "Save Our Souls" by Vivienne Westwood. Full presentation after jump. Press link below. v.westwood-spring-2022-2Download
Restless Seas, Retired Souls
Author: Ana Cranberry
artist/educator—she/her—writer/musician
Snappy Answers for Aspiring Writers
My home was very loud, but school was even worse. The entire world seemed to be a scary, chaotic mess. Even though I might have been precociously young, I was still desperate for a little peace. I would soon find my first safe place to inhabit. The year was nineteen-eighty. My sanctuary was the public … Continue reading Snappy Answers for Aspiring Writers
The Charitable Arts
Skull with Flower Covering 6 1/2 inches wide x 5 3/4 inches tall No less that 24 Announcement 7 am, 7/13
Fascism In The American Midwest
I’ve decided to add my stories to help people understand the situation with right wing terrorism and the way it applies to someone as innocuous-seeming as myself. I hope it helps you to understand me and my PTSD. Healing from trauma is ongoing, so if your friend displays signs of trauma, and that isn’t something … Continue reading Fascism In The American Midwest
Two Lists
The older I get, the more apocryphal this list seems. I saw a lot of bands, but I don't remember seeing some of the bands on this very dumb list I made for MySpace. I look back at making this list, and I think about what I was doing with my first real experience being … Continue reading Two Lists
I Like Playing Other People’s Songs
Playing cover songs not only teaches you how to play different styles of a song, it puts you inside the music in a way that listening alone can never achieve. Music has shaped my life in so many ways, but I never feel as connected to a song as when I'm playing it. The folk … Continue reading I Like Playing Other People’s Songs
About My Gender Non-Conformity
🍃 I first realized I was trans when I saw a cisgender woman, Karen Black, play the role of transgender woman, Joanne, in the movie Come Back to the & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (a character whose shoes I would fill acting in the play for three nights at The Percolator. 🌟 I was … Continue reading About My Gender Non-Conformity
Roses For Posies
WORDS SAVES LIVES • SEPTEMBER 10, 2017 • WORLD SUICIDE PREVENTION DAY This book of poetry is dedicated to Thomas Disch, Jim Maclean, Leelah Alcorn, Dave Schulthise, and everyone who lost the fight against depression, isolation, and anxiety. Unfortunately there are very few ways to let someone who is suffering from mental illness know that … Continue reading Roses For Posies
The Heaviest Albums I’ve Heard
Hardcore punk rock was challenging itself to find heavier paths when Sleep’s Volume One was released in 1991. The lightly distorted guitars and heavily didactic vocals, were making way for more poetic, feelings-driven messaging. There was a stress hangover from the heady, violence-fueled days of the early punk era, and the music reflects that claustrophobic … Continue reading The Heaviest Albums I’ve Heard
The Man Who Was A Bomb
A quick study of who they were: Joan Vollmer Adams-Burroughs was born near Albany, New York on February 4, 1924. A student at Barnard College in Manhattan, New York, she was shared an apartment with Edie Parker. Their apartment was a place for beat poets to gather during their formative days in the nineteen forties. … Continue reading The Man Who Was A Bomb
