LLL073 @AlexisLyon: Talking Too Much or Caring Too Much

Alexis lounges with LannaLee and gets a couch!
Alexis lounges with LannaLee and gets a couch!

Alexis lounges with LannaLee and gets a couch!

On a warm summer night, Alexis and Lanna sit down to chat about understanding each other, getting to know people, sharing a love of books, gender and Alexis’ favorite things. Lanna gets offended. Alexis tells Lanna how to make the world a better place. Alexis talks of her love for Maine, kale, board sports and winter surfing in Maine. And she answers 10 questions.

Alexis Lyon

Alexis Lyon studied Asian Studies and Psychology at Bowdoin College. In Sri Lanka, she researched worship of the goddess Kali in a Sinhalese Buddhist context. She entered the Maine College of Art to work on her oil painting, and emerged as a ceramic installation artist. She has taught wilderness skills and environmental education to teens and pre teens, as well as a variety of community art classes to students young and old. She is currently working on her Masters in Education and ELL certification while teaching middle school English. When not teaching or studying, you may find her hiking mountains in New England or surfing on the coast of Maine.

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The 411: Alexis Lyon

#014 Sarah Holmes: Dyke Pride

Sarah Lounges with LannaLee and Gets a couch!

Sarah Lounges with LannaLee and Gets a couch!It’s Gay Pride week in the Portland Maine area and to celebrate, LannaLee lounged with the lucious Sarah Holmes to talk about pride, gender diversity and the Dyke March. Sarah schools Lanna on Stonewall and how the whole pride movement began. They talk about that marriage thing-a-ding. Sarah gives the finer points about the 7th annual Portland Maine Dyke March. And she answers 10 questions.

Sarah Holmes is the Assistant Director of Student Life and Diversity, and Coordinator of the Center for Sexualities and Gender Diversity at the University of Southern Maine. She is very active in the LGBTQA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning and allied) community. Among her involvements, she is one of the founders of the Portland Maine Dyke March, serves on the board of GLSEN Southern Maine (the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network supports gay straight trans alliances in schools), and is an adult advisor with PRYSM (the Proud Rainbow Youth of Southern Maine, supporting LGBTQA youth age 22 and under). She and her partner, Anna Schwartz, live in downtown Portland.

The 411: Sarah Holmes

Here is where you can find Sarah online.

We also talked about Southern Maine Pride [Saturday, June 16th, 2012].

[Recorded 06/11/2012]