Ep 75 Words have Power with Connor Lafortune and Lindsay Mayhew
Connor Lafortune and Lindsay Mayhew share their journey on how they became editors of the anthology A Thousand Tiny Awakenings and why it’s important for youth to have a voice.Connor Lafortune is from Dokis First Nation on RobinsonHuron Treaty territory of 1850 in Northeastern Ontario. He works primarily in Life Promotion, harm-reduction, mental health, and Indigenous education. He completed his Bachelor’s Degree at Nipissing University with a Double Honors Major in Indigenous Studies and Gender Equality and Social Justice. He is currently in the Masters in Indigenous Relations at Laurentian University. Connor is Anishinaabek, Queer, and Francophone; he uses his understanding of the world to shape his creations as a writer, spoken word poet, and musician. Connor often combines the written word with traditional Indigenous beadwork and sewing to recreate the stories of colonization, showcase resilience, and imagine a new future. He recently released a single in collaboration with Juno Award winner G.R. Gritt titled “Qui crie au loup ? ft. Connor Lafortune.” Above all else, Connor is an activist, a shkaabewis (helper), and a compassionate human being.Lindsay Mayhew (she/her) is a spoken word artist, poet, andwriter from Sudbury, Ontario. She recently graduated with a Master’s in English Literature from the University of Guelph. Lindsay is the multi-year champion of Wordstock Sudbury’s poetry slam, and she has featured in events across Ontario, including JAYU Canada, Hamilton’s 10th Fashion Week, and Nuit Blanche. She represented Canada in the 2024 Womxn of the World poetry slam. Lindsay’s written work is featured in multiple editions of Sulphur. Her spoken word and written work seeks to combine art and theory to voice feminist futures. At time 19:23 they read from A Thousand Tiny Awakenings.Book link: https://store.latitude46publishing.com/products/a-thousand-tiny-awakeningsArtsy Raven links:For more about The Artsy Raven Podcast or to join ourexclusive Artsy Raven club to receive free books and other cool stuff, visit: https://jfgarrard.com/arpodcastIf you really like this show, please feel free to send us a digital tip https://ko-fi.com/jfgarrardPatreon subscribers remember to access your bonus content for each episode: https://www.patreon.com/jfgarrard
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Ep 74 Freeing a Creative Self with Mary Sui Yee Wong
On the Artsy Raven, Mary shares her journey on how she became an artist and what inspires her. Mary Sui Yee Wong is a Montréal-based multidisciplinary artist who immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong in 1963.Working across disciplines that include sculpture, installation, video, and performance, Wong endeavors to defy fixedness in art as an act of resistance. She has been a board member of Oboro, Optica, and Articule. She was president of Little Pear Garden Collective, a Chinese performance group in Toronto, and is an honorary member of Yuet Sing Music Association in Montréal since 1990. She is known as an advocate and mentor within the Chinese community. Wong completed her MFA at Concordia University where she has taught for the past two decades. She was also an affiliate faculty and co-founder of the Socially Engaged Arts program at Goddard College, Vermont. Richmond Art Gallery (RAG) is presenting Restless by Nature: Mary Sui Yee Wong, 1990s to the present from April 12 to June 8, 2025. More info: https://www.richmondartgallery.org/restlessbynaturehttps://www.concordia.ca/faculty/mary-sui-yee-wong.html Artsy Raven links:For more about The Artsy Raven Podcast or to join our exclusive Artsy Raven club to receive free books and other cool stuff, visit: https://jfgarrard.com/arpodcastIf you really like this show, please feel free to send us a digital tip https://ko-fi.com/jfgarrardPatreon subscribers remember to access your bonus content for each episode: https://www.patreon.com/jfgarrard
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Ep 73 The Shifting Definition of Feminism with Marianna Marlowe
On the Artsy Raven, Marianna Marlowe speaks about why thedefinition of feminism has shifted, zooming in and out of scenes during memoir writing and the importance of self-care when conducting emotional advocacy work.Marianna Marlowe is a Latina writer who lives in the SanFrancisco Bay Area. After devoting years to academic writing, her focus now is creative nonfiction that explores issues of gender identity, feminism, cultural hybridity, intersectionality, and more. Her short memoir has been published in Narrative, Hippocampus and The Woven Tale Press, among others. Her memoir in essays, Portrait of a Feminist, will be published in the Spring of 2025.At time 22:30 she reads from Portraitof a Feminist: A Memoir in Essays.Author link: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Portrait-of-a-Feminist/Marianna-Marlowe/9781647427528Artsy Raven links:For more about The Artsy Raven Podcast or to join our exclusive Artsy Raven club to receive free books and other cool stuff, visit: https://jfgarrard.com/arpodcastIf you really like this show, please feel free to send us a digital tip https://ko-fi.com/jfgarrardPatreon subscribers remember to access your bonus content for each episode: https://www.patreon.com/jfgarrard
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Ep 72 Revealing a Never-Before-Told Story with Kathleen Lippa
Kathleen Lippa, a Canadian journalist, reveals a never-before-told story about a pedophile schoolteacher in the Arctic and the Inuit lives he destroyed and discusses the complications she faced during the research process.Kathleen Lippa is a Canadian journalist, born in Toronto and raised in St. John’s, Newfoundland. She trained as a professional dancer at The Quinte Ballet School and The School of the Toronto Dance Theatre before embarking on a journalism career.At Memorial University, from which she graduated with a BA(English) in 1998, she worked on the student newspaper, the muse. Following graduation, she worked at a number of Canadian newspapers including The Express (St. John’s) where she won a Canadian Community Newspaper Association award for arts reporting, The Hanover Post (Ontario), a number of newspapers under the corporate umbrella of the Northern News Services, 24 Hours (Toronto), and the Calgary Sun.For Northern News Services, after a short stint in Yellowknife, Kathleen served as Bureau Chief in Iqaluit, Nunavut. Her experience includes writing, editing, page layout and design, and photography. Her Northern experience was in a cross-cultural setting primarily reporting news from Inuit communities.After spending many years in Iqaluit, Kathleen now lives with her husband in Ottawa and St. John’s.At time 29:40 she reads from Arctic Predator: The Crimes of Edward Horne Against Children in Canada's North.Book info: https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459754805-arctic-predatorAuthor website: https://kathleenlippa.com/Artsy Raven links:For more about The Artsy Raven Podcast or to join our exclusive Artsy Raven club to receive free books and other cool stuff, visit: https://jfgarrard.com/arpodcastIf you really like this show, please feel free to send us a digital tip https://ko-fi.com/jfgarrardPatreon subscribers remember to access your bonus content for each episode: https://www.patreon.com/jfgarrard
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Ep 71 How I Published a Debut Novel with Su Chang
Su Chang discusses how to get debut novel published,her writing process word count target, and how writing helped her out of post-partum. Su Chang is a Chinese-Canadian writer, born and raisedin Shanghai and the daughter of a reluctant Red Guard leader. Her fiction has been recognized in Prairie Fire’s Short Fiction Contest, the Canadian Authors Association National Writing Contest, the ILS/Fence Fiction Contest, and the Masters Review’s Novel Excerpt Contest, among others. More of her essays and fiction are forthcomingin LitHub, Ex-Puritan, Open-Book, ElectricLiterature, 49th Shelf, etc. Publishers’ Weekly called her debut novel, The Immortal Woman, “unflinching…powered by raw emotion…a cathartic account of a family buffeted by the winds of modern Chinese history.” At time 18:36 she reads from The Immortal Woman.Book info: https://houseofanansi.com/products/the-immortal-womanAuthor website: https://www.suchangauthor.com/Artsy Raven links:For more about The Artsy Raven Podcast or to join our exclusive Artsy Raven club to receive free books and other cool stuff, visit: https://jfgarrard.com/arpodcastIf you really like this show, please feel free to send us a digital tip https://ko-fi.com/jfgarrardPatreon subscribers remember to access your bonus content for each episode: https://www.patreon.com/jfgarrard
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