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| gwen benaway: The Break Katherena Vermette, 2024-01-30 International bestseller The Break is the first in Katherena Vermette's heart-rending, utterly immersive Indigenous family saga that includes The Strangers and The Circle. When Stella, a young Mé tis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break — a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house — she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime. But when they arrive, no one is there; scuff marks in the compacted snow are the only sign anything may have happened. In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected, both directly and indirectly, with the victim — police, family, and friends — tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night. Lou, a social worker, grapples with the departure of her live-in boyfriend. Cheryl, an artist, mourns the premature death of her sister Rain. Paulina, a single mother, struggles to trust her new partner. Phoenix, a homeless teenager, is released from a youth detention centre. Officer Scott, a Mé tis policeman, feels caught between two worlds as he patrols the city. Through their various perspectives a larger, more comprehensive story about lives of the residents in Winnipeg' s North End is exposed. |
| gwen benaway: Maiden, Mother, Crone Kylie Ariel Bemis, Alexa Fae McDaniel, Lilah Sturges, Gwynception, Kai Cheng Thom, Audrey Vest, Izzy Wasserstein, 2019 Maiden, Mother, Crone is an anthology of short stories of fantasy fiction written by transgender women and starring transgender heroines.-- |
| gwen benaway: #NotYourPrincess Lisa Charleyboy, Mary Beth Leatherdale, 2017-12-12 Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book. In the same style as the best-selling Dreaming in Indian, #Not Your Princess presents an eclectic collection of poems, essays, interviews, and art that combine to express the experience of being a Native woman. Stories of abuse, humiliation, and stereotyping are countered by the voices of passionate women making themselves heard and demanding change. Sometimes angry, often reflective, but always strong, the women in this book will give teen readers insight into the lives of women who, for so long, have been virtually invisible. |
| gwen benaway: Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars Kai Cheng Thom, 2016 Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Asian and Asian American Studies. Young Adult. FIERCE FEMMES AND NOTORIOUS LIARS: A DANGEROUS TRANS GIRL'S CONFABULOUS MEMOIR is the highly sensational, ultra-exciting, sort-of true coming-of-age story of a young Asian trans girl, pathological liar, and kung-fu expert who runs away from her parents' abusive home in a rainy city called Gloom. Striking off on her own, she finds her true family in a group of larger-than-life trans femmes who live in a mysterious pleasure district known only as the Street of Miracles. Under the wings of this fierce and fabulous flock, the protagonist blossoms into the woman she has always dreamed of being, with a little help from the unscrupulous Doctor Crocodile. When one of their number is brutally murdered, she joins her sisters in forming a vigilante gang to fight back against the transphobes, violent johns, and cops that stalk the Street of Miracles. But when things go terribly wrong, she must find the truth within herself in order to stop the violence and discover what it really means to grow up and find your family. |
| gwen benaway: Whatever Gets You Through Jen Sookfong Lee, 2019-04-16 Through the voices of twelve diverse writers, Whatever Gets You Through offers a powerful look at the narrative of sexual assault not covered by the headlines--the weeks, months, and years of survival and adaptation that people live through in its aftermath. With a foreword by Jessica Valenti, an extensive introduction by editors Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee, and contributions from acclaimed literary voices such as Alicia Elliott, Elisabeth de Mariaffi, Heather O'Neill, and Juliane Okot Bitek, the collection explores some of the many different forms that survival can take.-- |
| gwen benaway: Refuse Julie Rak, Erin Wunker, Hannah McGregor, 2018 Literary Nonfiction. Essays. CanLit--the commonly used short form for English Canadian Literature as a cultural formation and industry--has been at the heart of several recent public controversies. Why? Because CanLit is breaking open to reveal the accepted injustices at its heart. It is imperative that these public controversies and the issues that sparked them be subject to careful and thorough discussion and critique. REFUSE: CANLIT IN RUINS provides a critical and historical context to help readers understand conversations happening about CanLit presently. One of its goals is to foreground the perspectives of those who have been changing the conversation about what CanLit is and what it could be. Topics such as literary celebrity, white power, appropriation, class, rape culture, and the ongoing impact of settler colonialism are addressed by a diverse gathering of writers from across Canada. This volume works to avoid a single metanarrative response to these issues, but rather brings together a cacophonous and ruinous multitude of voices. With contributions by: Zoe Todd, Keith Maillard, Jane Eaton Hamilton, kim goldberg, Tanis MacDonald, Gwen Benaway, Lucia Lorenzi, Alicia Elliott, Sonnet l'Abb , Marie Carri re, Kai Cheng Thom, Dorothy Ellen Palmer, Natalee Caple & Nikki Reimer, Lorraine York, Chelsea Vowel, Laura Moss, Phoebe Wang, A.H. Reaume, Jennifer Andrews, Kristen Darch & Fazeela Jiwa, Erika Thorkelson and Joshua Whitehead. |
| gwen benaway: This Wound Is a World Billy-Ray Belcourt, 2019 The new edition of a prize-winning memoir-in-poems, a meditation on life as a queer Indigenous man--available for the first time in the United States i am one of those hopeless romantics who wants every blowjob to be transformative. Billy-Ray Belcourt's debut poetry collection, This Wound Is a World, is a prayer against breaking, writes trans Anishinaabe and Métis poet Gwen Benaway. By way of an expansive poetic grace, Belcourt merges a soft beauty with the hardness of colonization to shape a love song that dances Indigenous bodies back into being. This book is what we've been waiting for. Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound Is a World is an invitation to cut a hole in the sky / to world inside. Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder their sadness and pain without giving up on the future. His poems upset genre and play with form, scavenging for a decolonial kind of heaven where everyone is at least a little gay. Presented here with several additional poems, this prize-winning collection pursues fresh directions for queer and decolonial theory as it opens uncharted paths for Indigenous poetry in North America. It is theory that sings, poetry that marshals experience in the service of a larger critique of the coloniality of the present and the tyranny of sexual and racial norms. |
| gwen benaway: Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time Hope Nicholson, 2016 |
| gwen benaway: Small Beauty jiaqing wilson-yang, 2018-07-02 |
| gwen benaway: Junebat John Elizabeth Stintzi, 2020-04-07 From award-winning author John Elizabeth Stintzi, Junebat is a form- and gender-disrupting debut collection that grapples with the pain of uncertainty on the path towards becoming. John Elizabeth Stintzi’s unforgettable debut collection, Junebat, grapples with the pain of uncertainty on the path towards becoming. Set during the year Stintzi lived in deep isolation in Jersey City, NJ, these poems map the depression the poet struggled with as they questioned and came to grips with their gender identity. Through the invention of the Junebat — a contradictory, evolving, ever-perplexing creature — Stintzi is able to create a self-defined space within the poems where they can reside comfortably, beyond the firm boundaries of the gender binary or the plethora of identities gathered under the queer umbrella. As the speaker of the poems begins to emerge from their depression, the second wing of the book tracks their falling in love with a young woman surfacing from the end of her marriage. Challenging, heartbreaking, soaring, and powerfully new, the poems in Junebat demolish false walls and pull the reader to the dark edges of the mind, showing us how identity doesn’t have to be rigid or static but can be defined by confusion and contradiction, possibility and a metamorphosis that never ends. |
| gwen benaway: North End Love Songs Katherena Vermette, 2012 For Katherena Vermette, Winnipeg's North End is a neighbourhood of colourful birds, stately elms, and always wily rivers. It is where a brother's disappearance is trivialized by local media and police because he is young and aboriginal. It is also where young girls share secrets, movies, cigarettes, Big Gulps and stories of love—where a young mother full of both maternal trepidation and joy watches her small daughters as they play in the park. In North End Love Songs, Katherena Vermette uses spare language and brief, telling sketches to illuminate the aviary of a prairie neighbourhood. Vermette's love songs are unconventional and imminent, an examination and a celebration of family and community in all weathers, the beautiful as well as the less clement conditions. This collection is a very moving tribute, to the girls and the women, the boys and the men, and the loving trouble that has forever transpired between us. – Joanne Arnott From a mixed-blood M'tis woman with Mennonite roots, Kate weaves a story that winds its way through the north end (Nor-tend) of Winnipeg. It's a story of death, birth, survival, beauty and ugliness; through it all there are glimmers of hope, strength, and a will to survive whatever this city throws at you. – Duncan Mercredi |
| gwen benaway: Even this Page is White Vivek Shraya, 2016 A poetry book by the author of God Loves Hair: a bold and timely interrogation of skin. |
| gwen benaway: Transcendent 2 Bogi Takács, 2018 Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Fiction!As with the first volume of Transcendent, Lethe Press has worked with a wonderful editor to select the best work of genderqueer stories of the fantastical, stranger, horrific, and weird published the prior year. Featuring stories by Merc Rustad, Jeanne Thornton, Brit Mandelo, and others, this anthology offers time-honored tropes of the genre--from genetic manipulation to zombies, portal fantasy to haunts--but told from a perspective that breaks the rigidity of gender and sexuality. |
| gwen benaway: A Mind Spread Out on the Ground Alicia Elliott, 2020-08-04 In her raw, unflinching memoir . . . she tells the impassioned, wrenching story of the mental health crisis within her own family and community . . . A searing cry. —New York Times Book Review The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated to a mind spread out on the ground. In this urgent and visceral work, Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas she and so many Native people have experienced. Elliott's deeply personal writing details a life spent between Indigenous and white communities, a divide reflected in her own family, and engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, art, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrification, and representation. Throughout, she makes thrilling connections both large and small between the past and present, the personal and political. A national bestseller in Canada, this updated and expanded American edition helps us better understand legacy, oppression, and racism throughout North America, and offers us a profound new way to decolonize our minds. |
| gwen benaway: Stone Butch Blues Leslie Feinberg, 2010 Published in 1993, this brave, original novel is considered to be the finest account ever written of the complexities of a transgendered existence. Woman or man? Thats the question that rages like a storm around Jess Goldberg, clouding her life and her identity. Growing up differently gendered in a blue--collar town in the 1950s, coming out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist 60s, deciding to pass as a man in order to survive when she is left without work or a community in the early 70s. This powerful, provocative and deeply moving novel sees Jess coming full circle, she learns to accept the complexities of being a transgendered person in a world demanding simple explanations: a he-she emerging whole, weathering the turbulence. |
| gwen benaway: Day/break Gwen Benaway, 2020 day/break, poet Gwen Benaway's fourth collection of work, explores the everyday poetics of the trans feminine body. Through intimate experiences and conceptualizations of trans life, day/break asks what it means to be a trans woman, both within the text and out in the physical world. Shifting between theory and poetry, Benaway questions how gender, sexuality, and love intersect with the violence and transmisogyny of the nation state and established literary institutions. In beautiful lyric verse, day/break reveals the often-unseen other worlds of trans life, where body, self, and sex are transformed, becoming more than fixed binary locations. Praise for Holy Wild This book is many things, and we are grateful. --Katherena Vermette, author of the award-winning novel The Break In Holy Wild, Benaway sounds forth a chorus of pronouncements that look something like I am x, where x is at once unavailable to some and ever-proliferating: this is what makes us holy / even if we are the only ones / who know it. It is in this refusal of singularity that Benaway conjures trans life in a place that is both prior to and in excess of the violence that mires it. --Billy-Ray Belcourt, Griffin Prize winning author of This Wound is a World Unapologetically, Benaway dares to imagine and celebrate Indigenous transness as radical softness, as sexually active resistance that doesn't entail oppression, but an urgent desire to be here, right now, despite a reality that refuses to acknowledge or even allow its existence in the first place. --Anomaly |
| gwen benaway: Broken People Sam Lansky, 2020-06-09 Sam Lansky has such a wondrous way with words.—Taylor Swift ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE YEAR Vogue, O, The Oprah Magazine, Parade, Library Journal, Harper’s Bazaar and more “Profound and affecting.”—Chloe Benjamin A groundbreaking, incandescent debut novel about coming to grips with the past and ourselves, for fans of Sally Rooney, Hanya Yanagihara and Garth Greenwell “He fixes everything that’s wrong with you in three days.” This is what hooks Sam when he first overhears it at a fancy dinner party in the Hollywood hills: the story of a globe-trotting shaman who claims to perform “open-soul surgery” on emotionally damaged people. For neurotic, depressed Sam, new to Los Angeles after his life in New York imploded, the possibility of total transformation is utterly tantalizing. He’s desperate for something to believe in, and the shaman—who promises ancient rituals, plant medicine and encounters with the divine—seems convincing, enough for Sam to sign up for a weekend under his care. But are the great spirits the shaman says he’s summoning real at all? Or are the ghosts in Sam’s memory more powerful than any magic? At turns tender and acid, funny and wise, Broken People is a journey into the nature of truth and fiction—a story of discovering hope amid cynicism, intimacy within chaos and peace in our own skin. |
| gwen benaway: The Accident of Being Lost Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, 2017-04 |
| gwen benaway: Jonny Appleseed Joshua Whitehead, 2018-06-26 WINNER, Lambda Literary Award “You’re gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine” is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling novel. Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living. Self-ordained as an NDN glitter princess, Jonny has one week before he must return to the “rez,” and his former life, to attend the funeral of his stepfather. The next seven days are like a fevered dream: stories of love, trauma, sex, kinship, ambition, and the heartbreaking recollection of his beloved kokum (grandmother). Jonny’s life is a series of breakages, appendages, and linkages—and as he goes through the motions of preparing to return home, he learns how to put together the pieces of his life. Jonny Appleseed is a unique, shattering vision of First Nations life, full of grit, glitter, and dreams. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure. |
| gwen benaway: Shadows Cast by Stars Catherine Knutsson, 2012-06-05 Old ways are pitted against new horrors in this compellingly crafted, “atmospherically beautiful” (Kirkus Reviews) dystopian tale about a girl who is both healer and seer. Two hundred years from now, blood has become the most valuable commodity on the planet—especially the blood of aboriginal peoples, for it contains antibodies that protect them from the Plague ravaging the rest of the world. Sixteen-year-old Cassandra Mercredi might be immune to the Plague, but that doesn’t mean she’s safe—government forces are searching for those of aboriginal heritage to harvest their blood. When a search threatens Cassandra and her family, they flee to the Island: a mysterious and idyllic territory protected by the Band, a group of guerilla warriors—and by an enigmatic energy barrier that keeps outsiders out and the spirit world in. And though the village healer has taken her under her wing, and the tribal leader’s son into his heart, the creatures of the spirit world are angry, and they have chosen Cassandra to be their voice and instrument... Incorporating the traditions of the First Peoples as well as the more familiar stories of Greek mythology and Arthurian legend, Shadows Cast by Stars is a haunting, beautifully written story that breathes new life into ancient customs. |
| gwen benaway: NDN Coping Mechanisms Billy-Ray Belcourt, 2019-09-03 In his follow-up to This Wound is a World, Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Griffin Poetry Prize–winning collection, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field is a provocative, powerful, and genre-bending new work that uses the modes of accusation and interrogation. He aims an anthropological eye at the realities of everyday life to show how they house the violence that continues to reverberate from the long twentieth century. In a genre-bending constellation of poetry, photography, redaction, and poetics, Belcourt ultimately argues that if signifiers of Indigenous suffering are everywhere, so too is evidence of Indigenous peoples’ rogue possibility, their utopian drive. In NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field, the poet takes on the political demands of queerness, mainstream portrayals of Indigenous life, love and its discontents, and the limits and uses of poetry as a vehicle for Indigenous liberation. In the process, Belcourt once again demonstrates his extraordinary craft, guile, and audacity, and the sheer dexterity of his imagination. |
| gwen benaway: White Fragility Dr. Robin DiAngelo, 2018-06-26 The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively. |
| gwen benaway: Injun Jordan Abel, 2016 Award-winning Nisga'a poet Jordan Abel's third collection, Injun, is a long poem about racism and the representation of indigenous peoples. Composed of text found in western novels published between 1840 and 1950 - the heyday of pulp publishing and a period of unfettered colonialism in North America - Injun then uses erasure, pastiche, and a focused poetics to create a visually striking response to the western genre. After compiling the online text of 91 of these now public-domain novels into one gargantuan document, Abel used his word processor's Find function to search for the word injun. The 509 results were used as a study in context: How was this word deployed? What surrounded it? What was left over once that word was removed? Abel then cut up the sentences into clusters of three to five words and rearranged them into the long poem that is Injun. The book contains the poem as well as peripheral material that will help the reader to replicate, intuitively, some of the conceptual processes that went into composing the poem. Though it has been phased out of use in our post-racial society, the word injun is peppered throughout pulp western novels. Injun retraces, defaces, and effaces the use of this word as a colonial and racial marker. While the subject matter of the source text is clearly problematic, the textual explorations in Injun help to destabilize the colonial image of the Indian in the source novels, the western genre as a whole, and the Western canon. |
| gwen benaway: Somatechnics Samantha Murray, 2016-04-01 Somatechnics highlights the reciprocal bond between the sôma and the techné of 'the body' and the techniques in which bodies are formed and transformed as crafted responses to the world around us. Structured around the themes of the governance of social bodies, the gendering of sexed bodies and the techniques associated with the formation of the self, Somatechnics presents a groundbreaking study of body modification. Its contributions to the work of Spinoza, Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, Deluze and Guattari make it a must read for scholars of sociology, cultural and queer studies and philosophy. |
| gwen benaway: Somebody Told Me Mia Siegert, 2020-04-07 A compelling narrative layered with intersections of gender, sexuality, and spirituality.—Booklist After an assault, bigender seventeen-year-old Aleks/Alexis is looking for a fresh start—so they voluntarily move in with their uncle, a Catholic priest. In their new bedroom, Aleks/Alexis discovers they can overhear parishioners in the church confessional. Moved by the struggles of these sinners, Aleks/Alexis decides to anonymously help them, finding solace in their secret identity: a guardian angel instead of a victim. But then Aleks/Alexis overhears a confession of another priest admitting to sexually abusing a parishioner. As they try to uncover the priest's identity before he hurts anyone again, Aleks/Alexis is also forced to confront their own abuser and come to terms with their past trauma. |
| gwen benaway: Poetic Inquiry as Social Justice and Political Response Sandra L. Faulkner, Abigail Cloud, 2019-09-09 This volume speaks to the use of poetry in critical qualitative research and practice focused on social justice. In this collection, poetry is a response, a call to action, agitation, and a frame for future social justice work. The authors engage with poetry's potential for connectivity, political power, and evocation through methodological, theoretical, performative, and empirical work. The poet-researchers consider questions of how poetry and Poetic Inquiry can be a response to political and social events, be used as a pedagogical tool to critique inequitable social structures, and how Poetic Inquiry speaks to our local identities and politics. The authors answer the question: What spaces can poetry create for dialogue about critical awareness, social justice, and re-visioning of social, cultural, and political worlds? This volume adds to the growing body of Poetic Inquiry through the demonstration of poetry as political action, response, and reflective practice. We hope this collection inspires you to write and engage with political poetry to realize the power of poetry as political action, response, and reflective practice. |
| gwen benaway: Lyric Sexology Trish Salah, 2017-06-30 Largely written before the current cultural visibility of trans lit, Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 is Salah's prescient contribution to a canon of self-determined literature that explores transness. In this case, the author sidesteps the I in the text and instead draws on archives--sexological, anthropological, psychological, among others--to demonstrate the shifting and shifty nature of our identities, affiliations, and narratives. This 2017 edition is the first to be published in Canada and features four new poems and a new cover design by Kai Yun Ching and Wai-Yant Li. |
| gwen benaway: I Will See You Again , 2020-03-25 When the author learns of the death of her brother overseas, she embarks on a journey to bring him home. Through memories and dreams of all they shared together and through her Dene traditions, she finds comfort and strength. The lyrical art and story leave readers with a universal message of hope and love. |
| gwen benaway: The Blue Clerk Dionne Brand, 2018-08-23 On a lonely wharf a clerk in an ink-blue coat inspects bales and bales of paper that hold a poet’s accumulated left-hand pages—the unwritten, the withheld, the unexpressed, the withdrawn, the restrained, the word-shard. In The Blue Clerk renowned poet Dionne Brand stages a conversation and an argument between the poet and the Blue Clerk, who is the keeper of the poet’s pages. In their dialogues—which take shape as a series of haunting prose poems—the poet and the clerk invoke a host of writers, philosophers, and artists, from Jacob Lawrence, Lola Kiepja, and Walter Benjamin to John Coltrane, Josephine Turalba, and Jorge Luis Borges. Through these essay poems, Brand explores memory, language, culture, and time while intimately interrogating the act and difficulty of writing, the relationship between the poet and the world, and the link between author and art. Inviting the reader to engage with the resonant meanings of the withheld, Brand offers a profound and moving philosophy of writing and a wide-ranging analysis of the present world. |
| gwen benaway: Why Indigenous Literatures Matter Daniel Heath Justice, 2018 Asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples. Challenges readers to critically consider & rethink assumptions about Indigenous literature, history, and politics, never forgetting the emotional connections of our shared humanity & the transformative power of story. |
| gwen benaway: Five Wives Joan Thomas, 2019-09-03 WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION A GLOBE AND MAIL, CBC BOOKS, APPLE BOOKS, AND NOW TORONTO BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In the tradition of The Poisonwood Bible and State of Wonder, a novel set in the rainforest of Ecuador about five women left behind when their missionary husbands are killed. Based on the shocking real-life events In 1956, a small group of evangelical Christian missionaries and their families journeyed to the rainforest in Ecuador intending to convert the Waorani, a people who had never had contact with the outside world. The plan was known as Operation Auca. After spending days dropping gifts from an aircraft, the five men in the party rashly entered the “intangible zone.” They were all killed, leaving their wives and children to fend for themselves. Five Wives is the fictionalized account of the real-life women who were left behind, and their struggles – with grief, with doubt, and with each other – as they continued to pursue their evangelical mission in the face of the explosion of fame that followed their husbands’ deaths. Five Wives is a riveting, often wrenching story of evangelism and its legacy, teeming with atmosphere and compelling characters and rich in emotional impact. |
| gwen benaway: Holy Wild Gwen Benaway, 2018 In her third collection of poetry, Holy Wild, Gwen Benaway explores the complexities of being an Indigenous trans women in expansive lyric poems. She holds up the Indigenous trans body as a site of struggle, liberation, and beauty. A confessional poet, Benaway narrates her sexual and romantic intimacies with partners as well as her work to navigate the daily burden of transphobia and violence. She examines the intersections of Indigenous and trans experience through autobiographical poems and continues to speak to the legacy of abuse, violence, and colonial erasure that defines Canada. Her sparse lines, interwoven with English and Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe), illustrate the wonder and power of Indigenous trans womanhood in motion. Holy Wild is not an easy book, as Benaway refuses to give any simple answers, but it is a profoundly vibrant and beautiful work filled with a transcendent grace. |
| gwen benaway: The Soul of the Stranger Joy Ladin, 2019 Evocative readings of the Torah through the lens of transgender experience, exploring the ways trans perspectives can enrich our understanding of religious texts, traditions, and God |
| gwen benaway: You are Enough Smokii Sumac, 2018 A curated selection from hundreds of poems written over two years of a near-daily haiku practice. Sections of selected poems such as 'recovery,' 'courting,' and 'ceremony,' tell a story of what 2016-2018 was like in the life of a two-spirit, transmasculine, Ktunaxa PhD Candidate in their late 20s, living in Peterborough Ontario.-- |
| gwen benaway: Winter's Cold Girls Lisa Baird, 2020-01-21 A powerful debut collection that explores and celebrates the resilience of bodies and sexualities through the sensual and fantastical. |
| gwen benaway: All Eyes on Her L.E. Flynn, 2022-03-08 A gripping young adult thriller told from the perspective of everyone except the alleged killer: a seventeen-year-old girl. |
| gwen benaway: The Girl Who Grew a Galaxy Cherie Dimaline, 2013-05 From award-winning author Cherie Dimaline comes a tale of struggle hope and the kind of magic that can only happen when you mix the Mississippi and the Georgian Bay.Rudy Bloom has a lot going on; her mother is eating herself to death, a soul crushing museum job, and her flamboyant best friend who humiliates and saves her in equal doses. And then there's a galaxy of odd planets that spin around her head. When Ruby's sent to New Orleans for work, she finds an astronomer in an attic that just might be the way out of her chaotic solar system. |
| gwen benaway: The Secret Loves of Geeks Margaret Atwood, Gerard Way, Dana Simpson, Patrick Rothfuss, 2018-02-13 Following the smash-hit The Secret Loves of Geek Girls comes this brand new anthology featuring comic and prose stories from cartoonists and professional geeks about their most intimate, heartbreaking, and inspiring tales of love, sex and, dating. Including creators of all genders, orientations, and cultural backgrounds. Featuring work by MARGARET ATWOOD (The Handmaid's Tale), GERARD WAY (Umbrella Academy), PATRICK ROTHFUSS (The Name of the Wind), DANA SIMPSON (Phoebe and Her Unicorn), GABBY RIVERA (America), HOPE LARSON, (Batgirl), CECIL CASTELLUCCI (Soupy Leaves Home), VALENTINE DE LANDRO (Bitch Planet), MARLEY ZARCONE (Shade), SFÉ R. MONSTER (Beyond: A queer comics anthology), AMY CHU (Wonder Woman), a cover by BECKY CLOONAN (Demo) and many more. |
| gwen benaway: The Routledge Introduction to Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Canadian Poetry Erin Wunker, 2022-11-21 When asked the question what is the power of poetry?, writer Ian Williams said poetry punctures the surface. Williams' statement—that poetry matters and that it does something—is at the heart of this book. Building from this core idea that poetry perforates the everyday to give greater range to our lives and our thinking, the practical and pedagogical aim of this book is twofold: the first aim is to provide students with an introduction to the key cultural, political, and historical events that inform twentieth- and twenty-first-century Canadian poetry; and to familiarize those same readers with poetic movements, trends, and forms of the same time period. This book addresses the aesthetic and social contexts of Canadian poetry written in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: it models for its readers the critical and theoretical discourses needed to understand the contexts of literary production in Canada. Put differently, readers need a sense of the where and how of poetic production to help situate them in the what of poetry itself. In addition to offering a historically contextualized overview of the significant movements, developments, and poets of this time period, this book also familiarizes readers with key moments of reflection and rupture, such as the effects of economic and ecological crisis, global conflicts, and debates around appropriation of culture. This book is built on the premise that poetry in Canada does not happen outside of political, social, and cultural contexts. |
| gwen benaway: The Trans and Non-Binary Hero's Journey Valerie Estelle Frankel, Dean Leetal, 2024-07-15 A brave heroine whose quest involves living her true gender. A genderqueer knight who battles the transphobic court to save their prince. Often fearing discovery, the trans hero embarks on adventure, aided by an accepting mentor and other allies, and challenged by transphobic villains and sometimes uncomprehending family members. Ultimately, the trans hero triumphs, finding love, selfhood, and affirmation. This book adapts Joseph Campbell's classic pattern of comparative mythology and applies it to trans and non-binary heroes in modern popular media who are traversing multiple worlds. Analyzed are works for the screen such as Steven Universe, The Matrix, Sense8, and Sandman; print materials such as DC and Marvel comics; and television, fantasy books, and graphic novels from trans and non-binary creators worldwide. |
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Gwen Benaway, an award-winning poet of Anishinaabe and Métis descent, explores profound themes of identity and transformation in her book "Holy Wild." Drawing from her rich …
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GWEN BENAWAY is of Anishinaabe and Métis descent. Her first collection of poetry, Ceremonies for the Dead, was published in 2013 and her second collection of poetry, Passage, was …
Gwen Benaway is a trans girl of Anishinaabe collections of …
Gwen Benaway Gwen Benaway is a trans girl of Anishinaabe and Métis descent. She has published three collections of poetry and has two forthcoming works: a collection of poetry, …
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Gwen Benaway is a trans girl of Anishinaabe and Métis descent. She has published three collections of poetry, Ceremonies for the Dead, Passage, and Holy Wild, and was the editor …
DLE II: Dialogues Across Difference - THE IRIGARAY CIRCLE
Gwen Benaway (University of Toronto) ‘Hereafter: On Trans Girls and Language’ Session 3A: Irigaray Circle Plenary 1 Marvin 310 2.15pm – 3.45pm Moderator: Athena V. Colman (Brock …
The Power Of A Hug Poem [PDF] - actions.agiletortoise.com
Holy Wild Gwen Benaway,2018 In her third collection of poetry Holy Wild Gwen Benaway explores the complexities of being an Indigenous trans women in expansive lyric poems She …
About the Award - ola.org
Gwen Benaway is a published poet. She was the recipient of the first Speaker’s Book Award – Young Authors (for published authors aged 18-30) in 2015 for her collection of poetry …
Transmotion Vol 4, No 2 (2018) Review Essay: Weaving the …
Benaway’s work is both lyrically gorgeous and haunting; while aesthetically beautiful, her poems detail childhood abuse from a father who refused to accept his child’s non-cis identity, clearly …
Minutes: Board of Management, Meeting 3 (2016-2017)
Gwen Benaway, Chair reviewed the Monday December 5, 2016 Human Resources and Governance Committee Meeting Update noting that the Board will be surveyed on its
Episode 3.27 Killjoy Survival Kits - secretfeministagenda.com
So I'll be in conversation with Phoebe Wang, Julie will be in conversation with Dorothy Palmer, and Erin will be talking to Gwen Benaway. And I think it's going to be great. It's at the Toronto …
www.barryacearts.com
ARC POETRY MAGAZINE Barry ACE, Gwen BENAWAY, Lisa BIRD-WILSON, Selina BOAN, Joseph A. DANDURAND, Rosalie FAVELL, Connie FIFE, Natasha Kanapé FONTAINE, Laurie …
The Power Of A Hug Poem (Download Only)
Holy Wild Gwen Benaway,2018 In her third collection of poetry Holy Wild Gwen Benaway explores the complexities of being an Indigenous trans women in expansive lyric poems She …
Nov 2019 open word: arielle twist & gwen benaway
Join poets Arielle Twist and Gwen Benaway for a reading and conversation Tuesday, November 19 at Open Space, 7:30-9pm. Doors at 7:00. Free admission. open word: arielle twist & gwen …
Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance …
Thank you to Harsha Walia, Harjap Grewal, David James Hudson, and Gwen Benaway, whose generosity in reading and discussion at various stages of the project transformed the way I …
QUEER & 2S BOOKS AT XWI7XWA LIBRARY
Passage by Gwen Benaway Ravensong: a novel by Lee Maracle Rez Runaway by Melanie Florence Surviving the City: a graphic novel by Tasha Spillett and Natasha Donovan Two …
Minutes: Board of Management, Meeting 8 (2017-2018) …
Gwen Benaway requested the Board to review agenda for the Board Meeting of Monday, May 28, 2018. Amendment : Move all in-camera items to latter half of the meeting.
Election and Appointment to the Board of Management of …
Gwen Benaway 2. Linder Booker . 3. Alex Abramovich 4. Patrick Gervais 5. Paul Saguil : Retiring Board Members : The new candidates are replacing the following retiring Board Members: …
Thresholds of Difference
Poetry Reading by Gwen Benaway (University of Toronto, CAN), recipient of Canada’s 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry Borderstone : A Theatrical Performance by …
Minutes: Board of Management, Meeting 9 (2017-2018) …
Moved by: Gwen Benaway Seconded by: Paul Noble That the Board reviewed and approve the meeting minutes of Monday May 28, 2018 as amended. David Morris confirmed no conflict of …
Minutes: Board of Management, Meeting 11 (2016-2017)
August 28, 2017 with one amendment that marks Gwen Benaway absent. Minutes: Board of Management, Meeting 11 (2016-2017) Monday September 18, 2017 6:30 PM The 519, Room …
Holy Wild PDF - cdn.bookey.app
Gwen Benaway, an award-winning poet of Anishinaabe and Métis descent, explores profound themes of identity and transformation in her book "Holy Wild." Drawing from her rich …
Contributor Biographies
GWEN BENAWAY is of Anishinaabe and Métis descent. Her first collection of poetry, Ceremonies for the Dead, was published in 2013 and her second collection of poetry, Passage, was …
Gwen Benaway is a trans girl of Anishinaabe collections of …
Gwen Benaway Gwen Benaway is a trans girl of Anishinaabe and Métis descent. She has published three collections of poetry and has two forthcoming works: a collection of poetry, …
Poetics/Ethics: New Work by Queer Poets
Gwen Benaway is a trans girl of Anishinaabe and Métis descent. She has published three collections of poetry, Ceremonies for the Dead, Passage, and Holy Wild, and was the editor for …
DLE II: Dialogues Across Difference - THE IRIGARAY CIRCLE
Gwen Benaway (University of Toronto) ‘Hereafter: On Trans Girls and Language’ Session 3A: Irigaray Circle Plenary 1 Marvin 310 2.15pm – 3.45pm Moderator: Athena V. Colman (Brock …
The Power Of A Hug Poem [PDF] - actions.agiletortoise.com
Holy Wild Gwen Benaway,2018 In her third collection of poetry Holy Wild Gwen Benaway explores the complexities of being an Indigenous trans women in expansive lyric poems She …
About the Award - ola.org
Gwen Benaway is a published poet. She was the recipient of the first Speaker’s Book Award – Young Authors (for published authors aged 18-30) in 2015 for her collection of poetry …
Transmotion Vol 4, No 2 (2018) Review Essay: Weaving the …
Benaway’s work is both lyrically gorgeous and haunting; while aesthetically beautiful, her poems detail childhood abuse from a father who refused to accept his child’s non-cis identity, clearly …
Minutes: Board of Management, Meeting 3 (2016-2017)
Gwen Benaway, Chair reviewed the Monday December 5, 2016 Human Resources and Governance Committee Meeting Update noting that the Board will be surveyed on its
Episode 3.27 Killjoy Survival Kits - secretfeministagenda.com
So I'll be in conversation with Phoebe Wang, Julie will be in conversation with Dorothy Palmer, and Erin will be talking to Gwen Benaway. And I think it's going to be great. It's at the Toronto …
www.barryacearts.com
ARC POETRY MAGAZINE Barry ACE, Gwen BENAWAY, Lisa BIRD-WILSON, Selina BOAN, Joseph A. DANDURAND, Rosalie FAVELL, Connie FIFE, Natasha Kanapé FONTAINE, Laurie …
The Power Of A Hug Poem (Download Only)
Holy Wild Gwen Benaway,2018 In her third collection of poetry Holy Wild Gwen Benaway explores the complexities of being an Indigenous trans women in expansive lyric poems She …
Nov 2019 open word: arielle twist & gwen benaway
Join poets Arielle Twist and Gwen Benaway for a reading and conversation Tuesday, November 19 at Open Space, 7:30-9pm. Doors at 7:00. Free admission. open word: arielle twist & gwen …
Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance …
Thank you to Harsha Walia, Harjap Grewal, David James Hudson, and Gwen Benaway, whose generosity in reading and discussion at various stages of the project transformed the way I …
QUEER & 2S BOOKS AT XWI7XWA LIBRARY
Passage by Gwen Benaway Ravensong: a novel by Lee Maracle Rez Runaway by Melanie Florence Surviving the City: a graphic novel by Tasha Spillett and Natasha Donovan Two …
Minutes: Board of Management, Meeting 8 (2017-2018) …
Gwen Benaway requested the Board to review agenda for the Board Meeting of Monday, May 28, 2018. Amendment : Move all in-camera items to latter half of the meeting.
Election and Appointment to the Board of Management of …
Gwen Benaway 2. Linder Booker . 3. Alex Abramovich 4. Patrick Gervais 5. Paul Saguil : Retiring Board Members : The new candidates are replacing the following retiring Board Members: …
Thresholds of Difference
Poetry Reading by Gwen Benaway (University of Toronto, CAN), recipient of Canada’s 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry Borderstone : A Theatrical Performance by …
Minutes: Board of Management, Meeting 9 (2017-2018) Monday
Moved by: Gwen Benaway Seconded by: Paul Noble That the Board reviewed and approve the meeting minutes of Monday May 28, 2018 as amended. David Morris confirmed no conflict of …
Minutes: Board of Management, Meeting 11 (2016-2017)
August 28, 2017 with one amendment that marks Gwen Benaway absent. Minutes: Board of Management, Meeting 11 (2016-2017) Monday September 18, 2017 6:30 PM The 519, Room …
