Sassafras Lowrey is a genderqueer high femme, militant storyteller, author, artist, and activist. Ze believe that everyone has a story to tell, and that the telling of those stories is essential to creating social change. An accomplished storyteller, ze was an original member of "The Language of Paradox" founded and directed by Kate Bornstein, contributor to numerous anthologies including: LGBTQ: America Today, The Femme Coloring Book, Gendered Hearts, and Visible: A Femmethology. Sassafras and was honored as one of Portland's top emerging writers by In Other Words feminist books in 2004, and is the editor of the highly anticipated Kicked Out anthology (Fall 2009) from Homofactus Press. Sassafras is also the author of GSA to Marriage: Stories of a Life Lived Queerly (Homofactus Press, Summer 2010).

Interview Starts

CP: Thank you for taking the time to chat with us. So as we can tell by having read your book in the office you give voice and action to those in our community who may feel they do not have a voice and cannot take action for themselves. For that, can you tell readers a little bit about the Kicked Out Anthology, so they have a better understand of why this book is so important to read?