The Lesbian Podcast #4 - Tempting Faith

The Lesbian Podcast

This time we had the esteemed Meliza Bañales from Sister Spit. Bañales was the first Latina to win a poetry slam on the west coast. She wrote the book Say It With Your Whole Mouth at the age of twenty-five which went on to be nominated for the Poetry Center Book Award in 2004. She has also worked on and appeared in a number of independent films. Her own film, Do the Math, with award-winning director Mary Guzmán was the winner of a 2006 Frameline Completion Grant and received an Honorable Mention in Outfest 2007. She is now in production on a short film called Getting Off, with J. Aguilar coming to festivals in 2009 and is the co-executive producer of Tina D'Elia's film, Lucha, about the revolutionaries of El Salvador.Bañales is currently working on a one-woman-show, One Bad Year, as an artist-in-residence for Airspace in San Francisco. You don't want to miss this interview!