I Go To Therapy

Ethical Editorial Practices, Queer Representation, and Academic Accessibility w Sanchari Sur

Episode Summary

Award-winning fiction writer, reviewer, editor, and PhD candidate Sanchari Sur and I talk about our journeys of coming into queerness, how academic institutions can provide better mental health services, and the power dynamics between editors and writers.

Episode Notes

Award-winning fiction writer, reviewer, editor, and PhD candidate Sanchari Sur and I talk about our journeys of coming into queerness, how academic institutions can provide better mental health services, and the power dynamics between editors and writers. 

Sanchari Sur is a PhD candidate in English at Wilfrid Laurier University. Their writing can be found in Joyland, Al Jazeera, Room, EVENT, PRISM international, Quill & Quire and elsewhere. They co-edited Watch Your Head (Coach House Books, 2020), and are included in In /Appropriate: Interviews with Canadian Authors on the Writing of Difference (Gordon Hill Press, 2020, ed. Kim Davids Mandar). They are a recipient of a 2018 Lambda Literary Fellowship in fiction, a 2019 Banff residency (with Electric Literature) and Arc Poetry Magazine’s 2020 Critics’ Desk Award for a Feature Review.  

I Go To Therapy is hosted by Sydney Warner Brooman and produced by Christian Hegele. Original music and sound mixing by Christian Hegele. You can find us on Igototherapypodcast.simplecast,com, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts from.

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