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.
Description
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