The talented and accomplished Kim Echlin is launching her new nonfiction book Tell Others: Storytelling in a World in Turmoil. Kim visits Edmonton for a reading and interview May 5 & 6. โCensorship, testimony, translation, silencing, and listeningโthese five words are the beautiful and timely spine of this story. Taking some of the most difficult historical violences of our times as the incitement to read otherwise, Echlin shows the ways in which fiction provides readers a moment of respite. In these pages, the words, language, and stories of others quietly provide us the possibility of community, of refusal, of renewal and of what is possible when we make ourselves available to other accounts of what it means to live a life. We read the writer reading and we share a certain unity through words that produce liberating sensations for collective possibilities beyond despair.โ โRinaldo Walcott, author ofย The Long Emancipation: Moving Toward Black Freedom
Category: anti-racist feminism
Pandemonium Journal 17/12/22 โ of necropolitical conspiracy theorists, authoritarians, & fascists (things as they are in Alberta and abroad)
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Pandemic Journal 20 March 2022 โ I felt nostalgic about life writing
Pandemic Journal 22/5/20-17/6/20 โโGone Bananasโ Notes From My Solitudinous Solitude
By day, I count the inequities now underscored and bathed in broad daylight by pandemic effects. The youth with no future. The aged warehoused in dead zones. The mothers whose workday suddenly expands with childcare, teaching, and at-home paid labour. For instance, in my old haunt - the university, academic womenโs publications have fallen off precipitously since COVID-19 appeared. The pandemic operates like a magnifying glass of injustices. ...Once I went for walks in the ravine. Now I listen to the rain from underneath the covers. The monsoon that is late May and sometimes June promises to go on through the summer. My psychic drama.






