In the Press
Selected press coverage, interviews, and media appearances featuring my work as a writer, consultant, and advocate.
Material Girls podcast: 9 to 5 x Labour Feminism with Zena Sharman
Zena appears on the Material Girls podcast to talk about the film 9 to 5 through the lens of labour feminism. Come for the love of Dolly Parton and stay for the rich conversation about labour organizing, cultural consumption, moral purity and coalition building!
Author Q&A with Zena in The Discourse
In this Q&A for The Discourse, Zena explains how she came to write Staying Power and why she chose to write a memoir-in-essays.
Staying Power reviewed in Xtra Magazine
H Felix Chau Bradley reviews Staying Power for Xtra Magazine, calling Zena “a voice worth paying attention to.”
Live Like the World is Dying podcast
An interview with Zena about collective parenting, challenging nuclear family norms, queer lineages of care, and creating supportive community structures for raising children.
Living in this Queer Body podcast
Zena in conversation with Hannah McGregor about caring ferociously, macho homemaking, living life as a committed spinster, work as a trauma response, and domestic embodiment.
From What If to What Next podcast
An interview with Zena about centering disability justice, deep inclusion and liberation in healthcare, education, and the arts.
Grounded Futures podcast
Zena in conversation with Uilliam Joy and carla joy bergman about about imagining care beyond institutions, intergenerational solidarity, queering kinship, and consensual care.
University of Minnesota Press podcast
Zena in conversation with Hil Malatino about trans experience, affect and rage, mapping the emotional terrain of survival, liberatory health care, and envisioning liberated futures together.
San Francisco Public Library author talk
Zena in conversation with Shayda Kafai about disability justice, BIPOC activism, crip kinship, transforming health systems, and the radical imaginings of disabled queer and trans bodyminds of color.
Xtra Magazine
Zena in conversation with Ziya Jones about questioning health care systems, imagining pleasure-centered care, centering LGBTQ2S+ expertise, and transforming medicine from sites of harm into spaces of healing and liberation.