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Livestream event with director Tamara Dawit (FINDING SALLY), Prof. Elleni Centime Zeleke (Columbia University) and author Rebecca Fisseha (Daughters of Silence) in conversation with journalist Hannah Giorgis (The Atlantic). The event will be followed by a special musical performance by Zaki Ibrahim.
Finding Sally will be available for streaming, with option of French subtitles, from Feb 19 at 7 pm to Feb 24 at 7 pm.
Registration for this event is through Eventbrite and will take place via zoom webinar. You will receive a private link to view the film on Friday, February 19 and a link to the video conference on the day of the event. Live captioning will be provided. The event is organized by Cinema Politica and is by registration only. While registration for students and low income folk is free, we encourage everyone who has the means to contribute
Interview with Indigenous Brilliance Issue 44.3 Editors
Tansi hello! We are so thrilled to share the development of the Indigenous Brilliance issue 44.3. Our commissioned artist appearing in the issue is Whess Harman, a Carrier Wit’at multidisciplinary artist, an interview with the brilliant Cheyenne Wyzzard-Jones, a Black Indigenous queer femme creative curator, and cover art from Ocean Hyland, artist and activist from the Tsleil-Waututh nation.
This issue is to hold space for Indigenous writers to tell their stories. Indigenous is used to refer broadly to peoples of long settlement and connection to specific lands who have been adversely affected by incursions by industrial economies, displacement, and settlement of their traditional territories by others. We acknowledge this is not limited to Turtle Island and the America’s, and welcome Indigenous experiences from around the globe, who share histories of European colonialism, genocide, enslavement, subjugation, resistance,
Home > Interviews > “Grief Demands Compassion”: An Interview with Emma Hansen
Photo by Aaron Vandenbrink
Emma Hansen’s debut memoir
Still ebbs and flows around the reader, much like its recurring motif of water. At times, it brims with heartbreak; at other times, it is tender and overflowing with love. Hansen guides readers through her journey of grief after discovering her first child, Reid, has died––and she will have to deliver him stillborn––and then through the aftermath of her mourning.
Natasha Ramoutar: There is an overarching water metaphor woven throughout
Still
––grief coming in “waves,” for example. What were your intentions with this repeated motif? Was the motif added in during the editing process or was it apparent in the first draft?
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