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Where I land
“It’s a book that I finished quite recently because I was hosting during the holidays at Radio-Canada and I received [Caroline] with his brother, Nicholas Dawson. My great friend told me about it last summer, but I hadn’t had time to dive into it yet. I stopped several times during the reading because I thought his pen was great. […] I was sensitive to the idea of reading another reality than mine; I think that when you are a white person born in Quebec of parents born in Quebec, it is a great exercise in humility to read this book. There are also many references that are those of my generation; it took me back to primary, secondary… It moved me extremely. »
Where I land
Caroline Dawson
Hustle Editions
Message sticks – Tshissinuatshitakana
“I must admit that I came to poetry very late. I have always had a fascination for [ce genre], but very humbly, I thought that I did not know how to decode it. My access was through characters that I found larger than life… Josée Yvon, for example. [Bâtons à message et Pomme Grenade, d’Elkahna Talbi] are both on my bedside table, but they are totally different. I read them before I go to bed because I’m often exhausted after long days on the radio, so it lets me fall asleep with dancing and singing reflections. And if I want to have sweet dreams, I turn to the poetry of Josephine Bacon, which is so ethereal. »
Message sticks – Tshissinuatshitakana
Josephine Bacon
inkwell memory
Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians
“Joan E. Biren is 77 today, she is a pioneer. The book was published in 1979, then reissued in 2021. It is my friend Florence Gagnon, who is at the head of the magazine LSTW, the only lesbian magazine in Canada, which [m’en a parlé]. JEB didn’t line up at all to be a photographer and portrait painter… Then quietly, she got involved in fairly radical feminist movements and she realized that lesbian women were totally invisible. She started taking pictures of the everyday life of the women around her and of the couples. She embraced principles that were truly intersectional, feminist, and queer, that spoke to the reality of all kinds of women. »
Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians
JEB
Anthology Editions