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Category: Essays & Fragments

Erin Wunker: from Notes from a Feminist Killjoy
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Erin Wunker: from Notes from a Feminist Killjoy

  • Posted on March 15, 2018March 15, 2018
  • by LEC

This is an excerpt from a longer chapter titled “Notes on Rape Culture” and is posted with permission from the author. Every now and then in the writing of this,…

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Essay: Collen Fulton’s “The Inaugural Mood”
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Essay: Collen Fulton’s “The Inaugural Mood”

  • Posted on March 15, 2018March 15, 2018
  • by T H

The Inaugural Mood Criticisms from the Field: The Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference and the Futurity of Poetics The temporality of our forms of poetic engagement have a strange character. On…

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Virginia Woolf : A Few Thoughts on Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid
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Virginia Woolf : A Few Thoughts on Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid

  • Posted on December 20, 2017March 14, 2018
  • by Sina

I’m posting this classic Virginia Woolf essay as a reminder that the personal is always interesting if it is live and in context; if there is a pulse at the…

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Essays & Fragments: An Excerpt from Julia Cooper
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Essays & Fragments: An Excerpt from Julia Cooper

  • Posted on December 12, 2017December 13, 2017
  • by LEC

A Loss for Words from The Last Word (Coach House Books, 2017) by Julia Cooper Here we are in the pews of a bright, white-walled church in the opening minutes…

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M. NourbeSe Philip: Interview With An Empire
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M. NourbeSe Philip: Interview With An Empire

  • Posted on December 12, 2017December 12, 2017
  • by ME A

INTERVIEW WITH AN EMPIRE Q: Why does a Black woman like yourself write the kind of poetry you do? A: I’m not sure what you mean by “the kind of…

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Review: Too Much and Not the Mood
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Review: Too Much and Not the Mood

  • Posted on November 3, 2017November 9, 2017
  • by LEC

Too Much and Not the Mood, Durga Chew-Bose, HarperCollins Canada (2017) “I have no pen…and not much to say, or rather too much and not the mood,” wrote Virginia Woolf…

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Lee Maracle Conversation 10: On Appropriation
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Lee Maracle Conversation 10: On Appropriation

  • Posted on November 3, 2017November 3, 2017
  • by Sina

Most people seem to be using appropriation when they include a Native character in their story. One of the people who was accused of appropriation in the 1980s was the…

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Essay: An Excerpt from Eden Robinson
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Essay: An Excerpt from Eden Robinson

  • Posted on November 3, 2017November 8, 2017
  • by LEC

The Haisla measure of intelligence is slightly different from that of mainstream culture. Three main indicators are an ability to trace your family roots back to mythic times, not having…

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Durga Chew-Bose: 3 Questions
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Durga Chew-Bose: 3 Questions

  • Posted on October 11, 2017October 11, 2017
  • by Tess Liem

Sometimes what feels risky to me might seem quite guarded to readers. –Durga Chew-Bose Tess Liem: In your writing, especially in “Heart Museum,” you use repetition to create rhythm and…

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From Gentlemen of the Shade: Jen Sookfong Lee
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From Gentlemen of the Shade: Jen Sookfong Lee

  • Posted on October 5, 2017October 3, 2017
  • by LEC

RISK, ON AND SCREEN OFF At 15, when I first watched My Own Private Idaho, my sexuality was still a fetal idea. But even though there are few women in…

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Geneviève Robichaud on erica kaufman: INSTANT CLASSIC
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Geneviève Robichaud on erica kaufman: INSTANT CLASSIC

  • Posted on April 27, 2015July 11, 2017
  • by gen rob

INSTANT CLASSIC, erica kaufman (Roof Books, 2013) “we can’t all be ballerinas, ducks, or robots / and we can’t all heed the ventriloquist and live / in the apothecary’s store…

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Jacob Wren on Leanne Simpson: Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back & Islands of Decolonial Love
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Jacob Wren on Leanne Simpson: Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back & Islands of Decolonial Love

  • Posted on April 22, 2015July 11, 2017
  • by gen rob

Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence, Leanne Simpson (ARP Books, 2011)       Islands of Decolonial Love: Stories and Songs, Leanne Simpson (ARP…

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