Fall 2024

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Fight or Flight

The fall 2024 cover features Toronto-based recording artist SuKha Never Dies. Read the review of her music video “Goddess.”

The special themed issue focuses on embodied responses to trauma and creative pathways to healing. A feature article “Messages in the Sky” covers five recent public art interventions that used the sky to confront issues related to gender, colonization, immigration, incarceration, and genocide.

In an interview with Winnipeg-based artist Jackie Traverse, she reflects on overcoming trauma and isolation from the Sixties Scoop and finding solace and connection through painting.

A comic by artist and trauma therapist Roza Nozari addresses feminist strategies to working through trauma, shame, and dissociation.

The issue’s columns focus on Palestine, care, chronic illness, and loneliness.

Plus, read a review of Farah Al Qasimi’s exhibition, The Swarm, as well as a review of the group show, Looking for Freedom, featuring Daphne Boxill, Negar Pooya, and Sora Salima Kouaci.

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Vol. 38 No. 3 (Fall 2024) special themed issue, Fight or Flight

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Features

Messages in the Sky: Artistic Interventions Take Flight

Often viewed as a symbol of freedom and hope, the sky serves as a backdrop for artists to address and challenge local and global injustices. This article examines five recent public art projects that used the sky to confront issues related to gender, colonization, immigration, incarceration, and genocide.
by Christina Hajjar

Wishing on a Butterfly: A Conversation with Jackie Traverse on Healing Through Art

In this interview, Winnipeg-based Ojibwe artist Jackie Traverse discusses how art has been essential for her healing and self-expression. She reflects on overcoming trauma and isolation from the Sixties Scoop and finding solace and connection through painting.
by Talula Schlegel

A Feminist Approach to Healing

This personal comic addresses working through trauma, shame, and dissociation. Combining a confessional narrative with practical advice, artist and trauma therapist Roza Nozari offers strategies for healing. Key approaches include connecting with the body and seeking community support.
by Roza Nozari

 

Columns

When Healing and Care are a Privilege
by Sundus Abdul Hadi

Tendrils of Kinship Unfurled
by m. patchwork monoceros

How to Build your Social Support Networks
by Canadian Mental Health Association

 

Reviews

ART

Looking for Freedom by Daphne Boxill, Negar Pooya, and Sora Salima Kouaci
Review by Vicki Lee

The Swarm by Farah Al Qasimi
Review by Dallas L

FILM

Kenya by Gisela Delgadillo
Review by Mariana Muñoz Gomez

BOOKS

body rites: a holistic healing and embodiment workbook for Black survivors of sexual trauma by shena j. Young
Review by Evelyn C. White

The Land in our Bones: Plantcestral Herbalism and Healing Cultures from Syria to the Sinai— Earth-based Pathways to Ancestral Stewardship and Belonging in Diaspora by Layla K. Feghali
Review by Nada Beydoun

The Resilience Myth: New Thinking on Grit, Strength, and Growth After Trauma by Soraya Chemaly
Review by Julie S. Lalonde

leave some for the birds: movements for justice by Marjorie Beaucage
Review by Adrienne Huard

We Need to Do This: A History of the Women’s Shelter Movement in Alberta and the Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters by Alexandra Zabjek
Review by Tasha Dion

Advocating for Palestine in Canada: Histories, Movements, Action edited by Emily Regan Wills, Jeremy Wildeman, Michael Bueckert, Nadia Abu-Zahra
Review by Maysam Ghani

MUSIC

“Goddess” by SuKha Never Dies

“Levitate” by Billie Zizi

Reviews by Rosie Long Decter

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