Articulating Desire: Writing by Queer Women

UPDATE: Event will now be held Friday, March 29

https://www.facebook.com/events/945595152497067/

Lise Weil’s memoir In Search of Pure Lust (Inanna, 2018) takes us back to a moment in the ‘70s and ‘80s when lesbian desire was the pulsing center of an entire way of life, a culture, a movement. The memoir also traverses a series of torrid but ultimately failed relationships—until a dive into Zen practice begins to turn things around. Lise is also editor of Dark Matter: Women Witnessing an online journal publishing writing and artwork created in response to a time of massive species loss and ecological collapse.

Jacqueline Dumas’ novel The Heart Begins Here takes place in a western Canadian city following the 9-11 attacks in 2001. The novel is inspired by Dumas’s many years’ experience as a bookseller, including Montreal in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The characters deal with the realities of life in a feminist bookstore – intrigue among the bookshelves, disastrous poetry readings, disastrous relationships, financial woes…

Clementine Morrigan writes the zine Fucking Magic and is the author of three books, You Can’t Own the Fucking Stars, The Size of a Bird, and Rupture. Their work explores the experience of desire in the context of trauma. She writes about sexuality, queerness, love, relationships, and relentless hope.

Tara McGowan-Ross is an urban Mi'kmaw multidisciplinary artist and writer. Her first book, a collection of protest poetry called Girth, was released in 2016 by Insomniac Press. She is mostly made of earth.

www.liseweil.com

We had the chance to speak with CURE's Jodie-Ann about the upcoming event Healing through generations, and more!

https://www.facebook.com/events/2071916313100543/

We had the chance to speak with CURE's Jodie-Ann about the upcoming event Healing through generations, and more!

https://www.facebook.com/events/2071916313100543/

Dragonroot had the chance to speak with Shades Lawrence, and her upcoming event with Lux Magna festival, as well as her upcoming 2019 EP.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1987259871342404/

Dragonroot had the chance to speak with Shades Lawrence, and her upcoming event with Lux Magna festival, as well as her upcoming 2019 EP.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1987259871342404/

Dragonroot had the chance to speak with Logan from FliQs about their upcoming event December 10th

https://www.facebook.com/events/1465809516886294/

Dragonroot had the chance to speak with Logan from FliQs about their upcoming event December 10th

https://www.facebook.com/events/1465809516886294/

Har Leen is a South Asian writer, artist and educator, whose practice is entrenched in feminist and anti-racist principles and community-building approaches. As an educator, Har Leen uses arts-based approaches, ranging from visual arts to spoken word, to facilitate grassroots youth programming.

Har leen made it live in studio to speak with Dragonroot about poetry and writing.

More from Har leen:

https://stormcalledharleen.wordpress.com/

https://www.instagram.com/har.poetry/

https://www.facebook.com/har.poetry/

Har Leen is a South Asian writer, artist and educator, whose practice is entrenched in feminist and anti-racist principles and community-building approaches. As an educator, Har Leen uses arts-based approaches, ranging from visual arts to spoken word, to facilitate grassroots youth programming.

Har leen made it live in studio to speak with Dragonroot about poetry and writing.

More from Har leen:

https://stormcalledharleen.wordpress.com/

https://www.instagram.com/har.poetry/

https://www.facebook.com/har.poetry/

Dragonroot spoke with the three founders of the Tiger Lotus Co-op on their current workshop series, Harvesting the Wild.

https://www.tigerlotuscoop.com/

Tiger Lotus Collective is a wellness centre offering tender loving care and education. We are made up of female practitioners and educators in Montreal passionate about healing in its many forms. We believe the health care system, with its narrow scope of treatments and overburdened hospitals and clinics, is largely unequipped to deal with physical and psychological issues that impact women. We focus on providing a preventative instead of curative model of health care and try to educate females about their bodies and spirits, and how best to care for them in the day-to-day.