We at Aunt Lute want to apologize for our silence on the growing violence against the Asian and Pacific Islander community, culminating in an attack that killed 8 people last week in Atlanta. As a few of us on the Aunt Lute team are members of the API community, we have spent this week grieving. But the attack in Atlanta calls attention to a specific intersection of racism and misogyny that we feel, as an organization, the need to comment on. The fetishization of Asian women

Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards San Francisco, California — Aunt Lute is pleased to announce Olivia on the Record has been recognized as a finalist in the 23rd annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards. As part of its mission to discover, review, and share the best books from university and independent publishers, Foreword Magazine, Inc. hosts an annual awards program each year. After more than 2,000 individual titles spread across 55 genres were submitted for co

Wednesday, April 7, 2021 5 pm PDT Many marginalized writers celebrate the moment that they receive “a seat at the table,” and this is quite often their goal. Yet, others of us believe that having a seat at the table is another way of waiting to be included or invited to attend, thereby still centering whiteness. Creating Our Own "Table" Panel Discussion will focus on writers of color who are creating their own tables, including San Francisco poet laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin

We released Olivia on the Record: A Radical Experiment in Women's Music in the fall of last year to an outpouring of enthusiasm, kicking off with a wildly successful virtual book launch. Since then we have run two limited editions of signed copies, the first of which sold out before the event even happened! The second one is still going on, so get your copy here before they run out! Olivia on the Record covers the story of the radical lesbian-created and operated Olivia Recor