by kate | Nov 15, 2017 | Academic Press, Press
Read the article at Velvet Park. If your queer coming of age happened in the 90’s then you would have certainly been aware of the burgeoning movement of queer women performers. Armed with guitars, grit and gusto—tracing tracks left by (the likes of) Kathleen...
by kate | Nov 15, 2017 | Academic Press, Press
Alix Olson is a bonafide superstar of the spoken word community. She’s released three albums (“Protagonist,” “Independence Meal” and “Built Like That”); been the editor of a spoken word anthology (“Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution”);...
by Alix | Aug 14, 2012 | Academic Press, Press
Media Quotes about Alix Olson “A slam poet and activist, she can go from raging to adorable in the space of a couplet.”The Anchorage Press, January 26, 2006 “Hot Picks!” ‘Alix Olson serves it up for the masses’Anchorage Daily News, February 3, 2006 “Olson uses her...
by Alix | Jul 23, 2012 | Academic Press, Press
The Washington Post: Express November 25, 2003 “Women At War: Alix the Conquerer” “Anti-war, anti-gender oppression and anti-intolerance, folk poet and spoken-word artist Alix Olson really isn’t the negative type. She’s the...
by Alix | Jul 23, 2012 | Academic Press, Press
Summer Issue, 2005 Velvet Park Magazine Rachel Maddow: Straight Talk by Alix Olson I pull up in front of a charming Massachusetts country home, with a black Subaru and a red pick-up truck parked in the driveway (lesbian home, anyone?), overlooking a flooding river....
