Living in Liminality: Working with the Wounds of Trauma through Altered States & Poison Medicine 

Living in Liminality: Working with the Wounds of Trauma through Altered States & Poison Medicine 

Adapted from a keynote given at the 2018 Transformative Language Arts Network Power of Words Conference +++ What is the center what is the center...

VIDA Reviews! Interview with Chelene Knight on Dear Current Occupant

VIDA Reviews! Interview with Chelene Knight on Dear Current Occupant

Dear Current Occupant is non-linear memoir that maps Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in the 80s and 90s.  Through writing letters to the occupants of rentals she...

Compassionate Curating: Your Experience Is Valid

Compassionate Curating: Your Experience Is Valid

To put it simply, being an editor is difficult—and especially so when you are dealing with work that is crucial, urgent, and traumatic. As an...

Compassionate Curating: Creating Black Intentional Literary Spaces

Compassionate Curating: Creating Black Intentional Literary Spaces

I will always remember this past summer as one riddled with Black death. I was living in isolation at the time, with my parents in...

Building Community: On the Power of Women Mentors

At 17 years old, I kept what I imagined was a riveting journal of high school life. It was rife with rowdy, drunken kisses tasting...