interview

The Crimson Coyote podcast welcomes writer, performer, and organizer TYLER VILE to Episode #6!

Tyler Vile is a writer, performer, and organizer from Baltimore, MD whose novel-in-verse, Never Coming Home, is available on Topside Press. She is a founding member of Hinenu: The Baltimore Justice Shtiebl, a radically inclusive synagogue. Her work has appeared in the Lambda Literary Award nominated anthology, Resilience, published by Heartspark Press, as well as the magazines Femmescapes, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, and Rogue Agent.

I met Tyler through a writing community spearheaded by our very talented friend, Isobel O’Hare. Tyler is– forgive my expression– punk as fuck. She has existed on the margins for her entire life; a physically disabled trans woman and trauma survivor. She’s an activist who performed vocals in a band called Anti-Androgen, with songs like “Buffalo Bill,” where she would conclude her set by shouting, “Goodbye, horses!” She also dabbles in divination, and you can book a tarot reading with her at Dvar Tarot. Did I mention that she has the cutest ears!

*Trigger Warning: In this episode, there is discussion of sexual, physical, and psychological abuse, so if you believe that this conversation will be traumatizing, please reconsider listening.

You can find Tyler on Twitter and Facebook.

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The Crimson Coyote · #6 Tyler Vile

The Crimson Coyote podcast welcomes Filmmaker, Musician, and Activist, ARIANA DELAWARI to Episode #3!

Ariana Delawari is an Afghan-American filmmaker, musician, and activist, who is based in Los Angeles, California. We collaborated together on an art benefit I directed and curated called #YESALLWOMEN, where she contributed a mixed-media piece that incorporated photos, memories, and text from her journeys to Afghanistan. A year after 9/11, Ariana found herself on a plane to Afghanistan for the first time and began a 10-year documentation of her father’s homeland. We Came Home is her award-winning feature length directorial debut; the film is a culmination of this documentation, her family story, and the making of her album Lion of Panjshir. Ariana was a performer and speaker at the inaugural TEDxKabul. She also started a movement in Afghanistan called Inspire Peace. She wrote and directed a short surreal docu-musical film, Entelechy, that accompanies her second double album Entelechy I & II. She recently collaborated with filmmaker Joey Soloway in co-writing and performing a song for the show I Love Dick. Ariana co-created an app called Afghanistan Connect with the CEO and Afghan female coding students of Code to Inspire, Afghanistan’s first coding school for girls.

In Episode #3, we discuss the recent loss of her mother, her father’s political work, post-9/11 Afghanistan, war, filmmaking, recording music, the Taliban, the Muslim Ban, Islamophobia, and much more.

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(Photo: Naj Jamai)

The Crimson Coyote · #3 Ariana Delawari