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Wendy-O Matik is a Bay area based freelance writer, published poet, and radical love activist. She is the author of Redefining Our Relationships: Guidelines for Responsible Open Relationships (2002). As an educator, role model, and spokesperson for the polyamory community, Wendy has become a revolutionary activist of the heart. Since the release of her book, she has taught over ninety Radical Love & Relationship Workshops globally, excavating important social trends and reshaping the future of alternative relationship models for the 21st century. As an activist for social change, Wendy is pushing the boundaries on firmly rooted notions in mainstream society on relationships, love, gender, sexual equality, and sexual politics. Wendy has been invited to speak frequently at universities and progressive bookstores and student groups, including the University of California, Berkeley (Female Sexuality), San Francisco State University (Human Sexuality), Evergreen State College (Olympia, WA), and Mills College (Oakland, CA). She is available for educational and motivational discussions on the topic of alternative relationship models and responsible non-monogamy.
For the past fifteen years, she has also performed her spokenword frequently at high schools, musical events, radical arts demonstrations, art openings, and progressive bookstores throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. She was invited to perform at Ladyfest Melbourne Australia and Ladyfest Auckland, New Zealand (November/December 2003), United Kingdom (2002), including a performance at Ladyfest London. She has embarked on three nationwide book tours throughout the U.S. and Canada. Her most responsive audience is young people. Wendy-O Matik's largest collective work, Love Like Rage, is published on manic d press (1994). Wendy-O has received numerous scholarships from Poets & Writers.
Wendy graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and minored in Political Science in 1988. She is also a state-certified holisitc Nutrition Consultant, specializing in diet and stress reduction.
RADICAL RELATIONSHIPS WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
At a time when our nation is determined to keep us on the warpath, what better time to raise our voices against intolerance, hatred, and violence? At a time when our government propels us into a new dark age of fascism, what better time to talk about radical love, or the right to love who we want, how we want, and as many as we want? Loving openly and freely in these times, whether you are straight or queer, is a brave political act. We have been conditioned by outdated social norms that limit our perceptions and shackle us to unhealthy cycles of dissatisfying relationships. Yet we also live in a time when we can choose our gender and redefine our sexual identities. Donšt we then have the right to decide what kind of relationship best suits our lifestyle? Declare yourself a revolutionary of the heart. Find out how you can expand your potential to love, transform your lifestyle, and together we can threaten the social forces of patriarchy!
* Download a sample WORKSHOP flyer in PDF format *
AUTHOR'S BOOKS:
Redefining Our Relationships: Guidelines for Responsible Open Relationships,Defiant Times Press (June 2002, 2003) Price: $14, ISBN: 1-58790-015-7, Pages: 97
Five Good Minutes (mindfulness meditation book series), New Harbinger Pubications. Visit: www.fivegoodminutes.com
Daily Meditations for Calming Your Anxious Mind, New Harbinger Publications. Visit: www.newharbinger.com ANTHOLOGIES:
Sex & Relationships: An Anthology, edited by John Elia, Ph.D. & Ivy Chen, MPH (Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 2005)
Concrete Dreams: Manic D Press Early Works, manic d press (2002)
Revival: Spokenword from Lollapalooza '94, manic d press (1995)
Signs of Life: Channel Surfing Through 90x Culture, manic d press (1994)V Psyche Subversion, Andromeda Press (1992)
POETRY BOOKSk:
What I Left Behind, Defiant Times Press (2003)
Damaged Goods, Defiant Times Press (2001)
Gutless, Defiant Times Press (1998)
Love Like Rage, manic d press (1994)
Fill It Full of Holes, Defiant Times Press (1995)
She Knew Better, manic d press (1992)
So Much for Passion, manic d press (1990)
DISCOGRAPHY:
Ladyfest Melbourne Compilation 2003, Melbourne, Australia (Revolver Upstairs (2003)
Solo Stuff I: Recorded Live at the Royal George (New Cross, London), UK (2003)
Total War Against State & Capitol, Vol. II, Hidden Power Enterprises, Sweden (2003)
Total War Against State & Capitol, Vol. I, Hidden Power Enterprises, Sweden (2001)
Spoken Word Compilation (Pug-016), Evolution Records, USA (2001)
Krauts, Yanks & Limey!, Bremen, Oakland, Bath Sampler, GEMA Records, Germany (1998)
Home Alive: The Art of Self Defense, Epic Records, USA (1996)
Gag Order, False Faces, Judgmental Records, USA (1994)
Logical Nonsense/Grimple Split, East Bay Menace Records, USA (1993)
Consolidated, Play More Music, Play It Again Sam Records-Netwerk Europe (1992)
Powerless II: No More Flowers, No More Ribbons, Black Plastic Records, USA (1992)
Give Me Back, Ebullition Records, USA (1991)
Econochrist, Ebullition Records, USA (1988-1993)
VIDEOGRAPHY:
Step Up and Be Vocal, Interviews zu Queer Punk und Feminismus in San Francisco (2002) Step Up and Be Vocal, Bremen, Germany
Gynopunk, (May 1994) University of California Berkeley, Senior Film Project, USA
contact: wendy-omatik@lycos.com
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