Genius Teatime with Olivia Pepper
Channel: Opulent Mobility
Date: 2023-06-24

Olivia Pepper
TO BECOME LIVING POETRY: AN ORAL HISTORY OF OCCULTIST RITUAL THEATRE FROM 1870s-current

Olivia Pepper is a writer, a disabled and tired person, and a hereditary witch and ritualist who seeks to engage fully with enchantment whenever possible. Olivia was educated within the same magical tradition as Leonora Carrington and Alejandro Jodorowsky, and will be mostly drawing from this tradition for this talk. 

Olivia currently resides in rural Southern New Mexico and has dabbled abundantly in life and has been at various times a film producer, a medicinal herb farmer, an astrologer, a journalist, a labor organizer, a teacher, a line cook, and all kinds of other things. Mostly, though, Olivia is a collection of exhausted cells, weary bones, good stories, bad jokes and oddly sentimental pieces of pop culture trivia, mostly about Star Trek or queer poets of the 1920s.

This talk series was created by Pamela Samuelson of Embodywork LA and A. Laura Brody of Opulent Mobility. We asked our friends, colleagues, and inspirations what they could give a talk on for 40 minutes with no notes and no preparation, and they delivered. $10-30 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds. Donations this week benefited our speaker, the Chihene Nde Nation, and the Opulent Mobility accessibility fund.

Find out more at www.opulentmobility.com/genius-teatime.html