In the Press


Selected press coverage, interviews, and media appearances featuring my work as a writer, consultant, and advocate.

Ellen Brown Ellen Brown

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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