jennifer jazz
WRITER, MUSICIAN, PERFORMANCE ARTIST
I’m a 60-year-old street rat, highly associated with the eighties East Village art scene. The Guerilla Girls and Pleasure are the two bands I was in. The Bronx Council on the Arts once gave me $1,000 to publish a diary of personal photos that include one of a pair of boots I bought at Natasha’s on St. Mark’s Place in 1982.
I'd tune in and witness a woman fearlessly take on the US government and court system during that period and I was completely electrified by her. The fact that she was a black woman battling a more powerful black man cast her in the light of a martyr to me. I was running on Anita power when I went in the studio to record the Anita Hill song.
“SMART, BITING, VIOLENT, and often perplexing, this memoir is reminiscent of Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place. Beyond the authors having Antigua and matrophobia in common, jazz, like Kincaid, reveals truths in the work that others might well consider taboo. Spill Ink on It is an excellent personal, social commentary on life, spanning her early years of the 1960s through the 1980s, in the US and abroad.” World Literature Today, Adele Newson-Horst
New York writer and musician jennifer jazz, author of "Spill Ink On It," a memoir about being young, androgynous and restless in the wild wild eighties, published by Spuyten Duyvil Press, engages in critical and soul searching conversations with other writers about writing on her podcast Letters Off Paper.
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