In this episode of Queering Reality, we’re joined by poet Torrin Greathouse for a conversation that moves through the body, language, and the transformative power of queer imagination. Together, we explore how the body holds memory — and how queer identity reshapes what we inherit, remember, and reclaim.
Drawing from the themes of Wound from the Mouth of a Wound, we consider the ways language can both harm and liberate, asking how it constructs, distorts, and reimagines queer realities. Our discussion traces poetry not only as a form of documentation, but as a space for transformation and possibility — where new ways of being can emerge.
We also turn to the question of what it means to queer language itself, and how reworking religious imagery can become an act of resistance, survival, and re-enchantment. At its heart, this episode asks: if queerness is a way of seeing differently, how can poetry help us remake reality in its image?
