TIA House Talks: Recent Episodes
The Insurgent Architects' House for Creative Writing
The Insurgent Architects’ House for Creative Writing (TIA House) at the University of Calgary is a Canada Research Chair-sponsored initiative structured through the interactions of social justice, futurity, and innovative aesthetics in creative writing. Recognizing the instabilities of language articulated through the poststructural turn on the one hand, and the importance of embodied liberatory movements on the other, TIA House looks to a re-imagined concept of utopia to begin to imagine new forms and new creative practices embedded in a respect for the earth, Indigeneity, and for those inhabiting marginalized subject positions. Specifically, we take up David Harvey’s notion of the “insurgent architect” as a figure who desires and works for a better world, while constantly taking into account mutations, surprises and unexpected contingencies that can erupt on any level and at any moment. We live in and through speculative action, with a readiness to take risks that could undo us at any moment.
In practice, this means the embrace of many different kinds of writing practice including but not limited to: speculative fiction, ficto-criticism, innovative poetics, embodied writing, bio-text and non-standard forms of criticism.
Directed by Dr. Larissa Lai in the Department of English, TIA House serves to enable creative and critical discussion and production through a series of yearly events, readings, symposia, and roundtables. We plan to move into our new home on the 10th floor of the Social Sciences Building at the University of Calgary in 2015-2016.
For this final episode of TIA House Talks, Rebecca Geleyn and Mikka Jacobsen sit down with Larissa Lai to discuss the progression, transformation, and adaption of the TIA House Project over the last nine years. For more info please visit, https://www.tiahouse.ca/the-final-episode-57-rebecca-geleyn-and-mikka-jacobsen-interview-larissa-lai/
In this episode, Warren Cariou and Marc Lynch discuss the relationships between land, story, memory, and history. They also talk about Indigenous masculinities, poetry as a form of discourse, and petrography as both critical and creative practice. For more info, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-56-marc-lynch-interviews-warren-cariou/
Jael Richardson talks about the beginnings of the Festival of Literary Diversity, popularly known as FOLD. She talks about the challenges of decentering whiteness... For more info, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-55-mahmoud-ababneh-interviews-jael-richardson/
In this interview, Wakefield Brewster talks with Marc Herman Lynch about the origins of his various monikers such as... for more info, bios and show notes, please visit: https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-54-marc-lynch-interviews-wakefield-brewster/
A few months ago, TIA House Talks published the first episode of an anthology series that showcased the creative work of a few of the authors our team has had the privilege of interviewing. For more info, please visit: https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-53-tia-house-reads-vol-2/
In this interview, Amy Leblanc and Sydney Hegele enter into generously powerful conversations about their creative practice ...For More info, show notes and bios, please visit: https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-52-amy-leblanc-interviews-sydney-hegele/
In this interview, Parker discusses her experience as a PhD Student at The University of New Brunswick... For more info, please visit ....
In this interview, Kim Fu and Ben Berman Ghan discuss Fu’s short story collection Lesser-Known Monsters of the 21st Century... For more info, bios and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-50-ben-ghan-interviews-kim-fu/
In this interview, Mahmoud Ababneh talks with Kazim Ali on a number of pressing issues from the struggle to answer the question “where are you from?”... for more info, bios and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-49-mahmoud-ababneh-interviews-kazim-ali/
In this conversation, Dania Idriss and Omar Ramadan talk about the tangled roots of language, translation, and history, how institutional money talks... etc. For more info, bios and show notes please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-48-a-conversation-between-dania-idriss-and-omar-ramadan/
In this interview, Fred Wah and Shuyin Yu discuss the conference, named after one of his first books, “Alley Alley Home Free,” For more information, bios and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-47-shuyin-yu-interviews-fred-wah/
In the second part of this interview, David Chariandy continues his conversation with Shazia Hafiz Ramji. For more info, bios and show notes please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-46-part2-shazia-hafiz-ramji-interviews-david-chariandy/
In the first episode of this two-part interview, David Chariandy describes his writing process and as well his fraught relationship with narrative conventions... For more info, bios and show notes please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-46-shazia-hafiz-ramji-interviews-david-chariandy-part-1/
In this interview, Ryan Stern and Lydia Kwa talk about the origins of and the characters in... for more information, bios, and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-45-ryan-stearne-interviews-lydia-kwa/
For more info, Bios and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-44-a-conversation-between-yilin-wang-and-isabella-wang/
In this interview, Anahita Jamali Rad discusses their poetry in relation to the vampiric elements of capitalism ... For more info, show notes and bios, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-42-mahmoud-ababneh-interviews-anahita-jamali-rad/
Speaking with Mahmoud Ababneh, Bertrand Bickersteth speaks about his personal history and his research into Black histories that have been (and continue to be) neglected... For more information, show notes and bios, please visit
In this interview, Amy LeBlanc discusses her prose and poetry writings. For more information about the author and the interview, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-40-ryan-stearne-interviews-amy-leblanc/
In this interview of John Elizabeth Stintzi by Joshua Whitehead, the two authors reminisce about their time together in Winnipeg... For more info, show notes and speakers' bios, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-39-joshua-whitehead-interviews-john-elizabeth-stintzi/
Marc Herman Lynch interviews Tenille K. Campbell, a Dene and Métis poet and photographer from English River First Nation. For more, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-38-marc-lynch-interviews-tenille-campbell/
In this interview, Sheung-King talks with Marc Herman Lynch about his debut novel, You Are Eating an Orange, You Are Naked... For more info, bios, and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-37-marc-herman-lynch-interviews-sheung-king-aaron-tang/
In this interview, Terese discusses her experience in writing poetry and editing at Augur Magazine. For more information, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-36-shuyin-yu-interviews-terese-mason-pierre/
In this episode, we will be presenting a short form anthology in which we are showcasing just the creative writing. For more information, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-35-tia-house-reads-with-terese-mason-pierre-sheung-king-and-tenille-campbell/
Join us for this special edition TIA House roundtable, in memory of the late Lee Maracle. For more information, speakers' bios and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-34-remembering-to-re-member-lee-maracle/
In this interview, Sharanpal Ruprai and Aruna Srivastava touch on many important BIPOC actors in the Canadian literary scene, both living and passed away … For more info, please visit
Karina Vernon and Mahmoud Ababneh discuss The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology, Vernon’s latest work that recovers a Black Canadian history that includes oral and written work ranging from nineteenth century Black fur traders to contemporary Black voices such as lyrics by Cadence Weapon. Vernon’s work challenges the myth of Eurocentrism in the Prairies and the limits of representation to fracture Can Lit as we still know it now. This interview was originally recorded in spring 2021. For more, please visit: https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-32-mahmoud-ababneh-interviews-karina-vernon/
In this interview between Aruna Srivastava and Cecily Nicholson, the two discuss how communities of artists and activists work through priorities of understanding, activism, and relationship building ... For more info, please visit: https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-31-aruna-srivastava-interviews-cecily-nicholson/
In this interview of Ian Williams by Paul Meunier, the conversation focuses on Disorientations, Williams’s latest book that considers the impact of racial encounters on ordinary people. For more info, show notes and Bios, please visit: https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-30-paul-meunier-interviews-ian-williams/
In this interview, Liz talks about her book Letter in a Bruised Cosmos. The conversation also focuses on ... For more information, bios and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-29-paul-meunier-interviews-liz-howard/
In this Interview of Suzette Mayr by Mahmoud Ababneh, the conversation situates itself firmly in the academy. For more info, speakers' bio and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-28-mahmoud-ababneh-interviews-suzette-mayr/
In this episode of TIA House Talks, Marjorie Rugunda interviews Juliane Otoniya Okot Bitek. They talk about timely subjects. For speakers' bios, show notes and episode description, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-27-marjorie-rugunda-interviews-juliane-okot-bitek/
In this interview, Robert Majzels discusses his latest novel, Kharlamov’s Ankle: A Utopian Fantasy. Majzels speaks to the breadth of social, cultural, political, and philosophical considerations that inspire his work. For more information and speakers' bios, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-26-ryan-stearne-interviews-robert-majzels/
In this interview, Anne Stone discusses her novel Girl Minus X (2020) and what it was like writing a ‘science fiction’ narrative, featuring a sci-fi virus that attacks memory, and how this resonates in our contemporary context amidst the global pandemic. For more info, bios and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-25-rebecca-geleyn-interviews-anne-stone/
In this interview of Weyman Chan by Marc Herman Lynch, their conversation takes the shape of dichotomies and productive, generative tensions that exist between two seemingly disparate points. For more information, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-24-marc-herman-lynch-interviews-weyman-chan/
Welcome to the final podcast from our Wisdom Council series! This discussion was recorded during a TIA House symposium in September 2019. For more, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-23-kids-these-days_trepanier-fung-kamboureli/
In this interview, Marc Herman Lynch and Kawika Guillermo discuss the significance of a person’s name - through family histories and relationship, in writing and publication - and how this relates with authorship. For more info, show notes and bios, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-22-marc-herman-lynch-interviews-kawika-guillermo/
In this Part 2 interview, Marjorie Rugunda and Sonnet L’Abbé discuss how Sonnet’s Shakespeare engages with poetic practices. For more info, bio and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-21-marj-interviews-sonnet-part-2/
In this Part 1 interview, Marjorie Rugunda and Sonnet L’Abbé discuss the book Sonnet’s Shakespeare. For more information and bios, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-21-marjorie-rugunda-interviews-sonnet-labbe-part-1/
In this interview, Joshua Whitehead will be talking to Jordan Able about timely and crucial topics. For more information and the Bio of the speakers, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-20-joshua-whitehead-interviews-jordan-abel/
In this interview, Ian Kinney talks about their book Air Salt. The experience of falling from the seventh floor influenced Kinney’s trajectory of writing. For more information, bios and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-19-paul-meunier-interviews-ian-kinney/
In this presentation by Michelle Sylliboy, part of the TIA House guest speaker series, Sylliboy talks about her multimodal arts background, including poetry, photography and fine arts, and her research and work in Mi’kmaq hieroglyphics. For more information about this episode, speaker's bio and show notes, please visit: https://www.tiahouse.ca/1932-2/
This episode records the last gathering of the Wisdom Council during a TIA House symposium in September 2019. In this podcast, the members of the council, who are mostly BIPOC senior practitioners, read and discuss some of their works. The speakers engage with issues such ‘how to be a writer,’ land acknowledgement, Indigenous communities, and institutional madness. You will listen to Lillian Allen, Fred Wah, Lenore Keeshig, David Garneau, Smaro Kamboureli, Chrystos, Aruna Srivastava, and Richard Fung. For Bios and show notes, please visit: https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-17-multiplicity-of-creative-readings-from-wisdom-council/
This interview, hosted by Mahmoud Ababneh, is a conversation with Ph.D. student Shuyin Yu and recent Master’s alumni Trynne Delaney from the University of Calgary, discussing systemic racism in the institution. “We Mean You” is a direct address to those complicit in systemic racism, with calls for action, allyship, and antiracism support. Mahmoud, Shu, and Trynne discuss institutionalized racism in direct and candid ways, addressing recent experiences at the university, and the perpetual challenges, frustrations, and hurtful pains imposed upon the Black, Indigenous, and BIPOC student community. For more information and the full show notes, please visit: https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-16-we-mean-you-mahmoud-ababneh-interviews-shuyin-yu-and-trynne-delaney/
This interview of Richard Fung by David Garneau was recorded during a TIA House symposium called Wisdom Council in September 2019. Wisdom Council recognized the imperfect knowledge transmission methods of the colonial system, and particularly the ways it has tended to fragment non-Western knowledges and privilege the textual over the oral. Using a combination of traditional and contemporary practices, it brought together a small council of mostly BIPOC senior practitioners in the contemporary arts to sit in council over three days to discuss such topics as what our communities need now; memory and forgetting; care of elders in racialized communities; stories of the past, present and future; stories in cyclical time; community formations they’ve experienced; community formations they remember; how they understand the work that needs to be done; and practices and strategies that might be of use or interest in the present moment. This interview was recorded as part of the gathering's work. For more info about the speakers and the episode, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-15-david-garneau-interviews-richard-fung-at-wisdom-council/
This panel, entitled “How We Used to Do It: Anti-Oppression/Revolutionary Gatherings We Remember” featuring Chris Creighton-Kelly, Lenore Keeshig, and Lillian Allen was recorded during a TIA House symposium called Wisdom Council in September 2019. Wisdom Council recognized the imperfect knowledge transmission methods of the colonial system, and particularly the ways it has tended to fragment non-Western knowledges and privilege the textual over the oral. Using a combination of traditional and contemporary practices, it brought together a small council of mostly BIPOC senior practitioners in the contemporary arts to sit in council over three days to discuss such topics as what our communities need now; memory and forgetting; care of elders in racialized communities; stories of the past, present and future; stories in cyclical time; community formations they’ve experienced; community formations they remember; how they understand the work that needs to be done; and practices and strategies that might be of use or interest in the present moment. This panel was recorded as part of the gathering’s work. For more, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-14-how-we-used-to-do-it-anti-oppression-revolutionary-gatherings-we-remember-a-wisdom-council-panel-with-chris-creighton-kelly-lenore-keeshig-and-lillian-allen/
In this interview, Fred begins the conversation with Smaro by talking about his retirement and what it means to de-institutionalize your sense of self. They tackle and challenge the notion of institutional tradition and canon. For more information, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-13-smaro-kamboureli-interviews-fred-wah/
Show notes
This interview with Canisia Lubrin by TIA House graduate assistant and writer Trynne Delaney was recorded in August 2020 for the TIA House Talks podcast series. Canisia first reads from her most recent book, The Dyzgraphxst, which flows into a conversation about language, oceans, and unsettling colonial grammar.
For more information visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-12-trynne-delaney-interviews-canisia-lubrin/
This interview of Smaro Kamboureli by Richard Fung was recorded during a TIA House symposium called Wisdom Council in September 2019. Wisdom Council recognized the imperfect knowledge transmission methods of the colonial system, and particularly the ways it has tended to fragment non-Western knowledges and privilege the textual over the oral. Using a combination of traditional and contemporary practices, it brought together a small council of mostly BIPOC senior practitioners in the contemporary arts to sit in council over three days to discuss such topics as what our communities need now; memory and forgetting; care of elders in racialized communities; stories of the past, present and future; stories in cyclical time; community formations they’ve experienced; community formations they remember; how they understand the work that needs to be done; and practices and strategies that might be of use or interest in the present moment. This interview was recorded as part of the gathering's work.
Bios: Richard Fung is a video artist, cultural critic, and Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Art at OCAD University. Much of his work deals with the legacy of colonialism in his birthplace of Trinidad and Tobago, Asian diaspora, and the intersection of race, gender, and queer sexuality.
Smaro Kamboureli is Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include CanLit as a disciplinary formation and diaspora and Indigenous studies.
References: 4:58 Moving to the US with the Fulbright Fellowship 5:17 Relationship with Robert Kroetsch 6:00 Finding a community in Canada, including Fred Wah, bpNichol, Michael Ondaatje, George Bowering, Roy Miki 6:30 Considering early iterations of CanLit, from authors like Margaret Laurence and Margaret Atwood, to (5:59) evolving ideas of CanLit, with Rudy Wiebe, Wah, Miki 8:46 Supporting the small press industry, like NeWest Press, Turnstone Press, Thistledown Press, Talonbooks 8:58 Founding the Manitoba Writers’ Guild 10:26 Kamboureli’s first book of poetry titled in the second person 11:55 Kamboureli’s academic book titled Scandalous Bodies: Diasporic Literature in English Canada 12:13 Roy Miki and the Canadian Redress Campaign 12:26 Learning about Japanese Internment camps, and visiting Ste Agathe 14:13 Working in the 1980’s and early 90’s, including Writing Thru “Race” (1994). For reference, see Twenty Years of Writing thru “Race”: Then and Now (2015). 17:09 Targeted violence towards Greek peoples in the early 20th c. 18:18 Serving as a Canada Research Chair, founding the TransCanada Institute 20:19 Collaborating with Daniel Coleman on Retooling the Humanities: The Culture of Research in Canadian Universities 24:47 Oral discourse, and collaborating as an editor for Lee Maracle’s Memory Serves: Oratories 31:19 “Presentism” and a reluctance to read complexity in the present moment 35:07 Aging bodies: memory, dignity, and vulnerability in the aging process 38:46 Heritage and the refugee experience, learnings passed down through family 42:10 Greek culture, modern debates on Macedonia, cultural identity, and diaspora 43:04 Greek Film Director Theo Angelopoulos and Ulysses’ Gaze (1995) 49:06 Kinship, and current work on a book about diaspora and Indigeneity 52:15 Film reference to the Angry Inuk (2016), and working in northern Indigenous communities 55:45 Building a community of kinships and relationships outside academia
TIA House recognizes the generous support of the Canada Research Chairs program and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. We also appreciate the support of the Faculty of Arts and the Department of English at the University of Calgary, where our offices are housed, as well as the guidance of Marc Stoeckle at the Taylor Family Digital Library. TIA House is run by Larissa Lai, Mahmoud Ababneh, Rebecca Geleyn, Paul Meunier, and Joshua Whitehead. Our intro/outro music is “Monarch of the Streets” by Loyalty Freak Music.
This interview of Chris Creighton-Kelly by Lenore Keeshig was recorded during a TIA House symposium called Wisdom Council in September 2019. Wisdom Council recognized the imperfect knowledge transmission methods of the colonial system, and particularly the ways it has tended to fragment non-Western knowledges and privilege the textual over the oral. Using a combination of traditional and contemporary practices, it brought together a small council of mostly BIPOC senior practitioners in the contemporary arts to sit in council over three days to discuss such topics as what our communities need now; memory and forgetting; care of elders in racialized communities; stories of the past, present and future; stories in cyclical time; community formations they’ve experienced; community formations they remember; how they understand the work that needs to be done; and practices and strategies that might be of use or interest in the present moment. This interview was recorded as part of the gathering’s work.
Lenore Keeshig is a citizen of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation on the Saugeen Bruce Peninsula, and resides on Neyaashiinigmiing (home to the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation). Lenore is a storyteller, poet, award-winning author, naturalist, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. Her long-awaited first collection of poetry Running on the March Wind was published in 2015. Currently, she works delivering programs that teach about the natural and cultural history of the peninsula and the Great Lakes and helps area visitors to better understand their connections to the land and water. Chris Creighton-Kelly is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and cultural critic who was born in the UK of South Asian/British heritage. His artworks have been presented across Canada and in India, Europe, and the USA. Chris is persistently interested in questions of absence in the art discourses of the Western world: whose worldview is unquestioned; who has power; who does not? Chris also works as a consultant to many of Canada’s art organizations, institutions and agencies. He is currently co-director of Primary Colours/Couleurs primaires. References: 4:58 Racial Minority Writers’ Committee 5:54 Explorations Section of CCA 7:28 The Racial Equity Committee (UNESCO) 11:59 Multiculturalism Committee (CCA) 10:00 Establishment of a Native Arts Committee (CCA) 10:08 Committee For Racial Equality in the Arts (REACT) 10:52 Margot Kane 12:53 Alanis Obomsawin 14:15 Tom Hill 14:28 Carol Geddes 14:31 Alootook Iepellie 17:45 “Race and the Body Politic” Residency (Banff Centre) 19:09 Louise Profeit-LeBlanc 19:13 “Caring, Knowing, Sharing” (CKS) in the Canada Council 19:41 Steve Loft 22:33 The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 24:46 MAD Arts Movement—: https://canadacouncil.ca/glossary/mad-arts & this https://canadianart.ca/features/cripping-arts-time/ 26:34 Primary Colours (w/ France Trepanier) 30:32 Lillian Allen 31:45 Robert Lepage (Kanata) 33:05 Heather Robertson: “Why don’t you write about me?” 34:03 Rudy Wiebe (Almighty Voice): “Perhaps it is that Native people can’t write” 36:56 Daniel David Moses, Tomson Highway, Drew Hayden Taylor, (Committee to Reestablish the Trickster—see Moses’ piece about CRET in the American Indian Quarterly, “The Trickster's Laugh: My Meeting with Tomson and Lenore”: www.jstor.org/stable/4139046?seq=1). 38:26 Land: Landed (with France Trepanier)
TIA House recognizes the generous support of the Canada Research Chairs program and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. We also appreciate the support of the Faculty of Arts and the Department of English at the University of Calgary, where our offices are housed, as well as the guidance of Marc Stoeckle at the Taylor Family Digital Library. TIA House is run by Larissa Lai, Rebecca Geleyn, Joshua Whitehead, Mahmoud Ababneh, and Paul Meunier. Our intro/outro music is “Monarch of the Streets” by Loyalty Freak Music.
Show notes This reading and conversation were recorded during a TIA House event called “Producing Flow” in October 2019.
Roy Miki grew up in Winnipeg and moved to Vancouver in 1967. He has published widely on Asian Canadian writing, Canadian Literature, cultural activism, and contemporary poetry, and has edited works by George Bowering, bpNichol, and Roy K. Kiyooka. He wrote Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice (2004) and In Flux: Transnational Shifts in Asian Canadian Writing (2011), as well as 6 books. His third book of poems, Surrender (2001), received the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. He has also co-written, with his wife Slavia, a children’s book, Dolphin SOS (2014), awarded the 2014 BC Book Prize for best illustrated children’s book. Roy received the Order of Canada in 2006 and the Order of British Columbia in 2009.
Mike Barnholden was born in Moose Jaw on Treaty 4 territory. He has worked in construction, agriculture and forestry, as a childcare worker and disability advocate. He worked at the Native Education Centre, UBC and finally Emily Carr. He has also worked in publishing at Talonbooks, NewStar, Tsunami, West Coast Line and Line Books. He has written 10 books of poetry and several non-fiction titles such as Circumstances Alter Photographs, Reading the Riot Act, and translated Gabriel Dumont Speaks. His editorial work includes Writing Class: The Kootenay School of Writing Anthology and poetry collections such as Miki’s FLOW and Garry Thomas Morse’s forthcoming Lexicon Standoff. He has recently worked on 360 Riot Walk and teaches creative writing at the Gathering Place.
References 4:00—Roy Miki reads “Seawall Ambit” 9:12—The book Mike refers to is Muriel Kitagawa’s This is My Own: Letters to Wes & Other Writings on Japanese Canadians, 1941-1948 9:33—Mike talks about Helen Adam reading at Simon Fraser University 10:58—Roy’s first book was Saving Face: Poems Selected, 1976–1988, Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1991. 11:23—Mike refers to Cassandra Kobayashi’s Justice in Our Time 11:31—Mike refers to George Bowering’s A Record of Writing 11:55—Mike talks about Pacific Windows by Roy Kiyooka 14:59—Mike names other members of the editorial board at Talonbooks: Jeff Derksen; Stephen Collis; Sachiko Murakami; Phinder Dulai; Catriona Strang and Jordan Abel. 15:38: Mike refers to Fred Wah’s Scree: The Collected Earlier Poems, 1962-1991, ed Jeff Derkson. 15:48—Mike talks about the work of Phyllis Webb. 18:16—Mike reads Roy Miki’s poem “A Preface” 19:49—Mike reads Roy’s poem “Enter Here,” number 5 22:53—Roy reads “The Future Is Now” 25:19—Mike reads Roy’s poem “Riffs on Robert Kroetsch’s Lemon Poem” from the “Cloudy and Clear” section 26:15—Mike reads his own poem, “Lemonade” 26:56—Roy reads “Symptomatic” 28:20—Mike reads his own poem, “Supply Chain Management” 30:06—Roy reads “The Oblique Truth” 32:22—Roy reads “Marina-Side Dogs” 34:01—Mike reads his own poem, “Clam Bake” 36:44—Mike reads his poem “Idols” 37:17—Roy reads “Climatic” 38:12—Roy reads “Trending” 40:11—Mike reads Roy’s poem “This Side: Victoria Park, Calgary—after Roy Kiyooka” 41:26—Roy refers to the collages from “Enter Here,” the final poem in Flow. The poem has five sections of four parts each: three text and one image. 42:22—Roy reads from “Enter Here,” Five 50:28—Mike reads his own poem, “Prospectus” 51:15—Roy reads “Riffs on Robert Kroetsch’s ‘Lemon Poem’”
TIA House recognizes the generous support of the Canada Research Chairs program and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. We also appreciate the support of the Faculty of Arts and the Department of English at the University of Calgary, where our offices are housed, as well as the guidance of Marc Stoeckle at the Taylor Family Digital Library. TIA House is run by Larissa Lai, Mahmoud Ababneh, Rebecca Geleyn, Paul Meunier, and Joshua Whitehead. Our Intro/Outro music is “Monarch of the Streets” by Loyalty Freak Music, accessed from the Free Music Archive.
This episode is dedicated to Daniel David Moses
This interview of Lenore Keeshig by Lillian Allen was recorded during a TIA House symposium called Wisdom Council in September 2019. Wisdom Council recognized the imperfect knowledge transmission methods of the colonial system, and particularly the ways it has tended to fragment non-Western knowledges and privilege the textual over the oral. Using a combination of traditional and contemporary practices, it brought together a small council of mostly BIPOC senior practitioners in the contemporary arts to sit in council over three days to discuss such topics as what our communities need now; memory and forgetting; community formations they’ve experienced; community formations they remember; and practices and strategies that might be of use or interest in the present moment.
BIOS:
Lenore Keeshig is a citizen of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation on the Saugeen Bruce Peninsula, and resides on Neyaashiinigmiing (ne-yaa-shee-ni-gming) (home to the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation). Lenore is a storyteller, poet, award-winning author, naturalist, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. Her long-awaited first collection of poetry Running on the March Wind was published by in 2015.
Lillian Allen—from her website—Lillian Allen is a professor of creative writing at Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU). Multi-disciplinary and experimental, Allen’s creativity crosses many genres including radio, theatre, music and film; as a writer, featured artist and producer/director and national radio show host. Allen is a recognized authority and activist on issues of diversity in culture, cultural equity, cross cultural collaborations, and the power of arts in education and has worked, locally, nationally and internationally in this capacity.
REFERENCES: 10:15—Lillian refers to the entanglement with The Writers’ Union of Canada 10:40—Lillian and Lenore discuss Writing Thru Race (smarokamboureli.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Lai_Essay.pdf), The Appropriate Voice (Orillia, 1991), and It’s a Cultural Thing (Calgary, 1993) 12:10—Lenore refers to Daniel David Moses (www.danieldavidmoses.com), Tomson Highway (www.tomsonhighway.com), and Drew Hayden Taylor (www.drewhaydentaylor.com) 13:10—The organization Lenore talks about is The Committee to Reestablish the Trickster (CRET). See Moses’ piece about CRET in the American Indian Quarterly, “The Trickster's Laugh: My Meeting with Tomson and Lenore”: www.jstor.org/stable/4139046?seq=1. 23:50—Lenore’s piece in the Globe and Mail is “Stop Stealing Native Stories”: www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/cultural-appropriation-stop-stealing-native-stories/article35066040/ 52:30—Lillian brings up M. NourbeSe Philip (www.nourbese.com) and Susan Crean (susancrean.ca/) 54:25—Lenore refers to the Racial Minority Writers Committee (www.writersunion.ca/past-activities-and-achievements) 55:03—Lillian talks about The Womens’ Press (womenspress.canadianscholars.ca), Maureen Fitzgerald (womenspress.canadianscholars.ca/authors/maureen-fitzgerald-29f96f76-d80d-4b0b-8a56-aa86b39a474d), Ann Decter (womenspress.canadianscholars.ca/authors/ann-decter) 1:04:52—Maria Campbell (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Campbell)
TIA House recognizes the generous support of the Canada Research Chairs program and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. We also appreciate the support of the Faculty of Arts and the Department of English at the University of Calgary, where our offices are housed, as well as the guidance of Marc Stoeckle at the Taylor Family Digital Library. TIA House is run by Larissa Lai, Trynne Delaney, Rebecca Geleyn, Isabelle Michalski, and Joshua Whitehead.
Our intro/outro music is “Monarch of the Streets” by Loyalty Freak Music.
This interview of France Trépanier by Aruna Srivastava was recorded during a TIA House symposium called Wisdom Council in September 2019. Wisdom Council recognized the imperfect knowledge transmission methods of the colonial system, and particularly the ways it has tended to fragment non-Western knowledges and privilege the textual over the oral. Using a combination of traditional and contemporary practices, it brought together a small council of mostly BIPOC senior practitioners in the contemporary arts to sit in council over three days to discuss such topics as what our communities need now; memory and forgetting; care of elders in racialized communities; stories of the past, present and future; stories in cyclical time; community formations they’ve experienced; community formations they remember; how they understand the work that needs to be done; and practices and strategies that might be of use or interest in the present moment. This interview was recorded as part of the gathering's work.
France Trépanier is a visual artist and curator of Kanien’kéha:ka and French ancestry. She is currently guest curator at Open Space in Victoria. France is also co-director of the Primary Colours/Couleurs primaires initiative, which seeks to place Indigenous arts at the centre of the Canadian art system (primary-colours.ca). France co-authored with Chris Creighton-Kelly Understanding Aboriginal Art in Canada Today: A Knowledge and Literature Review for the Canada Council for the Arts. She is co-chair of the Indigenous Program Council at the Banff Centre
Aruna Srivastava has spent many years working as an anti-racism educator in various community-based, arts, and academic contexts, focused in more recent years on the complexities and intersections of disability, illness, age, and trauma in this work. As a racialized arrivant/settler, who has been a guest in many Indigenous lands across the world, she has found a home for quite some time here in what the Blackfoot called Moh’kins’tsis in Treaty 7 territory. Aruna has in the past twenty years or so also been on a journey to work in alliance with Indigenous peoples; this has shown her better and wiser ways to work both within and against colonial structures, such as universities, arts institutions, and non-profit organizations. The work of (re)conciliation engages her specifically in that it requires storying and storing or archiving memory in many forms—and repudiates forgetting
7:44: France mentions the artist Alanis Obomsawin: nfb.ca/directors/alanis-obomsawin
11:09: France refers to the IntraNation Conference: http://cicac.tru.ca/proj_2.php
12:36: The gathering France talks about was called the Diversity and Francophonie Conference in 2005. See academia.edu/19126803/Conference_Report_Diversity_and_Francophonie
13:14: France names the politician Roméo Saganash: openparliament.ca/politicians/romeo-saganash
14:23: More on Cheryl L’Hirondelle’s work at: cheryllhirondelle.com/about.html. Shirley Bear is an artist and poet: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Bear
15:25: Aruna refers to the New Gallery in Calgary: thenewgallery.org
18:08: The piece France refers to is “Offerings”: offerings-offrandes.com. This website is part of a larger exhibition
28:51: France talks about her curated exhibition “The Time of Things.” For more, see comoxvalleyartgallery.com/exhibitions/time-of-things-the-continuum-of-indigenous-customary-practice-into-contemporary-art
We recognize the generous support of the Canada Research Chairs program and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. We appreciate the support of the Faculty of Arts and the Department of English at the U of C, where our offices are housed, and the guidance of Marc Stoeckle at the Taylor Family Digital Library. TIA House is run by Larissa Lai, Trynne Delaney, Rebecca Geleyn, Isabelle Michalski and Joshua Whitehead
Our Intro/Outro music is Monarch of the Streets by Loyalty Freak Music, accessed from the Free Music Archive
Show notes:
This roundtable chaired by Sharanpal Ruprai with Aruna Srivastava, Chrystos, Fred Wah, and David Garneau as participants was recorded during a TIA House symposium called Wisdom Council in September 2019. Wisdom Council recognized the imperfect knowledge transmission methods of the colonial system, and particularly the ways it has tended to fragment non-Western knowledges and privilege the textual over the oral. Using a combination of traditional and contemporary practices, it brought together a small council of mostly BIPOC senior practitioners in the contemporary arts to sit in council over three days to discuss such topics as what our communities need now; memory and forgetting; care of elders in racialized communities; stories of the past, present and future; stories in cyclical time; community formations they’ve experienced; community formations they remember; how they understand the work that needs to be done; and practices and strategies that might be of use or interest in the present moment. This roundtable was recorded as part of the gathering's work.
Aruna Srivastava has spent many years working as an anti-racism educator in various community-based, arts, and academic contexts, focused in more recent years on the complexities and intersections of disability, illness, age, and trauma in this work. Chrystos is a Menominee poet and activist. Chrystos was born in San Francisco. In her work, she examines themes of feminism, social justice, and Native rights. B.C. poet Fred Wah most recent project is a collaboration with Rita Wong about the Columbia River, beholden: a poem as long as the river. He lives in Vancouver and on Kootenay Lake. David Garneau (Métis) is a Visual Arts Professor at the University of Regina whose practice includes painting, curation, and critical writing.
00:00 Please note that the recording starts mid-way through Sharanpal Ruprai’s introduction of herself and the purpose of the roundtable. We apologize for the inconvenience.
We recognize the generous support of the Canada Research Chairs program and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. We also appreciate the support of the Faculty of Arts and the Department of English at the University of Calgary, where our offices are housed, as well as the guidance of Marc Stoeckle at the Taylor Family Digital Library. TIA House is run by Larissa Lai, Trynne Delaney, Rebecca Geleyn, Isabelle Michalski, and Joshua Whitehead.
Our Intro/Outro music is Monarch of the Streets by Loyalty Freak Music, accessed from the Free Music Archive.
Show Notes
This reading was recorded during a TIA House event featuring Doyali Islam in September 2019. DOYALI ISLAM is a 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize finalist, 2020 Ontario Trillium Book Award for Poetry finalist, and 2020 Pat Lowther Memorial Award finalist for heft (M&S, 2019), which CBC Books named as a best poetry book of 2019. Doyali has participated in CBC Books' Why I Write video series. She has discussed the value of silence on CBC Radio's The Sunday Edition; language, form, beauty, and empathy with Anne Michaels in CV2; and the relationship between poetry and the body on CBC Radio's The Next Chapter. Doyali spent a few years in North Bay, Ontario, and is a former Poetry Editor of Ottawa's Arc Poetry Magazine. She lives in Toronto, Canada. www.doyali-islam.com.
If you enjoy this recording of Doyali Islam’s TIA House Talk, the poet has also been deep in conversation with Niall Munro over at Oxford Brookes Poetry Podcast (Episode 14).
Sound editing was done by Trynne Delaney, Daniel Zingaro, and Doyali Islam. Show Notes by Trynne Delaney and Doyali Islam.
TIA House Talk: Doyali Islam at TIA House (transcript to come) Recording Time Stamps 3:23 – Doyali’s opening remarks. (Note to Listeners/Readers: Not included in this recording or transcription is Doyali’s reading of her essay, “A Private Architecture of Resistance”, which she also read as part of her live TIA House Talk. You can find Doyali’s essay in The Manifesto Project, an anthology co-edited by Rebecca Hazelton and Alan Michael Parker.) 5:31 – The poetry reading begins. Doyali Islam reads the following poems: 5:42 — “letter” 6:47 — “the ant” 8:27 — “tending mint” 9:45 — And the BH Yael Documentary Even in the Desert is available here: http://www.bhyael.ca/even-in-the-desert 10:40 – “susiya” 12:37 — “vulva” 13:32 — “v” 14:52 — “moving day” 16:03 — “daniel” 17:02 —“bhater mondo” 18:17 –Doyali references the Syrian poet Adonis:https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/adonis 19:15 — “aries [the ram]” 23:26 — “poem for your pocket” 23:50 — more information on Miklós Radnóti is available through the poetry foundation here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/miklos-radnoti. 24:52 – Q&A Conversation begins.
You can read the transcript of the Post-reading Q&A Conversation transcribed by Doyali Islam on our website on Doyali’s podcast page at tiahouse.ca.
TIA House recognizes the generous support of the Canada Research Chairs program and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. We also appreciate the support of the Faculty of Arts and the Department of English at the University of Calgary, where our offices are housed, as well as the guidance of Marc Stoeckle at the Taylor Family Digital Library. TIA House is run by Larissa Lai, Trynne Delaney, Rebecca Geleyn, Isabelle Michalski, and Joshua Whitehead.
Our intro/outro music is “Monarch of the Streets” by Loyalty Freak Music.
Show Notes
This interview of Chrystos by France Trépanier was recorded during a TIA House symposium called Wisdom Council in September 2019. Wisdom Council recognized the imperfect knowledge transmission methods of the colonial system, and particularly the ways it has tended to fragment non-Western knowledges and privilege the textual over the oral. Using a combination of traditional and contemporary practices, it brought together a small council of mostly BIPOC senior practitioners in the contemporary arts to sit in council over three days to discuss such topics as what our communities need now; memory and forgetting; care of elders in racialized communities; stories of the past, present and future; stories in cyclical time; community formations they’ve experienced; community formations they remember; how they understand the work that needs to be done; and practices and strategies that might be of use or interest in the present moment. This interview was recorded as part of the gathering's work.
Chrystos is a Menominee poet and activist Chrystos born in San Francisco. In her work, she examines themes of feminism, social justice, and Native rights. She is the author of several collections of poetry, including Not Vanishing (1988), Dream On (1991), and Fire Power (1995). Chrystos’ work has been featured in the anthologies This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981, edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa) and Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology (1988, edited by Will Roscoe). With Tristan Taormino, she coedited the anthology Best Lesbian Erotica 1999 (1999). Bio taken from Poetry Foundation.
France Trépanier is a visual artist and curator of Kanien’kéha:ka (gonna gay ha) and French ancestry. She is currently guest curator at Open Space in Victoria. France is also co-director of the Primary Colours/Couleurs primaires initiative, which seeks to place Indigenous arts at the centre of the Canadian art system. www.primary-colours.ca. France co-authored with Chris Creighton-Kelly Understanding Aboriginal Art in Canada Today: A Knowledge and Literature Review for the Canada Council for the Arts. She is co-chair of the Indigenous Program Council at the Banff Centre.
16:13: Chrystos refers to Radclyff Hall’s The Well of Loneliness, Jonathan Cape, 1928.
18:33: Chrystos discusses The Full Moon Collective (Women’s Collective)
20:10: Chrystos references Audre Lorde, Beth Brant, Gloria Anzaldúa, Pat Parker in relation to kinship and writing.
21:40: Reference to Nicholas C. Peroff’s Menominee Drums: Tribal Termination and Restoration, 1954-1974, The University of Oklahoma Press, 2006.
23:20: Reference to Audre Lorde’s “A Litany for Survival”
28:40: Reference to feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist Kate Millett
29:30: Reference to Violette Leduc’s La Bâtarde, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965.
32:29: Reference to Chrystos’ Not Vanishing, Press Gang Publishers, 1988.
33:05: Discussion of the oeuvre of Edward S. Curtis.
44:40: Reference to novelist and essayist, Richard Wright.
51:27: Reference to Chickasaw poet, essayist, and environmentalist, Linda Hogan.
TIA House recognizes the generous support of the Canada Research Chairs program and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. We also appreciate the support of the Faculty of Arts and the Department of English at the University of Calgary, where our offices are housed, as well as the guidance of Marc Stoeckle at the Taylor Family Digital Library. TIA House is run by Larissa Lai, Trynne Delaney, Rebecca Geleyn, Isabelle Michalski, and Joshua Whitehead.
Our intro/outro music is “Monarch of the Streets” by Loyalty Freak Music.
Show notes:
This interview of David Garneau by Fred Wah was recorded during a TIA House symposium called Wisdom Council in September 2019. Wisdom Council recognized the imperfect knowledge transmission methods of the colonial system, and particularly the ways it has tended to fragment non-Western knowledges and privilege the textual over the oral. Using a combination of traditional and contemporary practices, it brought together a small council of mostly BIPOC senior practitioners in the contemporary arts to sit in council over three days to discuss such topics as what our communities need now; memory and forgetting; care of elders in racialized communities; stories of the past, present and future; stories in cyclical time; community formations they’ve experienced; community formations they remember; how they understand the work that needs to be done; and practices and strategies that might be of use or interest in the present moment. This interview was recorded as part of the gathering's work.
David Garneau (Métis) is a Visual Arts Professor at the University of Regina whose practice includes painting, curation, and critical writing. He recently co-curated, with Kathleen Ash Milby, Transformer: Native Art in Light and Sound, National Museum of the American Indian, New York; Moving Forward, Never Forgetting, with Michelle LaVallee, an exhibition concerning the legacies of Indian Residential Schools, other forms of aggressive assimilation, and (re)conciliation, at the Mackenzie Art Gallery in Regina; and With Secrecy and Despatch, with Tess Allas, an international exhibition about massacres of Indigenous people and memorialization for the Campbelltown Art Centre, Sydney, Australia. Garneau has recently given keynote talks in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and throughout Canada.
B.C. poet Fred Wah’s most recent project is a collaboration with Rita Wong about the Columbia River, beholden: a poem as long as the river. Scree: The Collected Earlier Poems, 1962-1991 was published in 2015. High Muck a Muck: Playing Chinese, An Interactive Poem, is available online (http://highmuckamuck.ca/). He lives in Vancouver and on Kootenay Lake.
10:20: David discusses his article “Beyond the Pale: Looking for E/Quality Outside the White Imaginary.” Parallelogram, vol. 20, no. 1, Toronto: Association of National Non-Profit Artists' Centres, 1994.
14:15: For some of the work of Roy Kiyooka, see https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/roy-kiyooka
22:45: Keith Bird's MFA thesis exhibition was called Stories from the Spirit Tree, at the MacKenzie Art Gallery, October 12-20, 2013.
25:32: David refers to Fred Wah’s book Diamond Grill, NeWest Press, 1996.
26:20: Fred quotes here from David’s “Extra-Rational Aesthetic Action and Decolonization,” Fuse Magazine, vol. 36, no. 4, Fall 2013, pp. 14-21.
31:20: Fred quotes from another article of David’s: "Imaginary Spaces of Conciliation and Reconciliation: Art, Curation, and Healing," Arts of Engagement: Taking Aesthetic Action in and Beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, edited by Dylan Robinson and Keavy Martin, Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2016, pp. 21-41.
40:28: Here is the Bear Claw Gallery’s website: https://bearclawgallery.com/
41:52: David refers to “The One-and-a-Half-Men: The Story of Jim Brady and Malcolm Norris”: http://www.metismuseum.ca/browse/index.php?id=1017
TIA House recognizes the generous support of the Canada Research Chairs program and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. We also appreciate the support of the Faculty of Arts and the Department of English at the University of Calgary, where our offices are housed, as well as the guidance of Marc Stoeckle at the Taylor Family Digital Library. TIA House is run by Larissa Lai, Trynne Delaney, Rebecca Geleyn, Isabelle Michalski, and Joshua Whitehead.
Our Intro/Outro music is Monarch of the Streets by Loyalty Freak Music, accessed from the Free Music Archive.
This interview of Aruna Srivastava by Chris Creighton-Kelly was recorded during a TIA House symposium called Wisdom Council in September 2019. Wisdom Council recognized the imperfect knowledge transmission methods of the colonial system, and particularly the ways it has tended to fragment non-Western knowledges and privilege the textual over the oral. Using a combination of traditional and contemporary practices, it brought together a small council of mostly BIPOC senior practitioners in the contemporary arts to sit in council over three days to discuss such topics as what our communities need now; memory and forgetting; care of elders in racialized communities; stories of the past, present and future; stories in cyclical time; community formations they’ve experienced; community formations they remember; how they understand the work that needs to be done; and practices and strategies that might be of use or interest in the present moment. This interview was recorded as part of the gathering's work.
Chris Creighton-Kelly—from Rungh: Chris Creighton-Kelly is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and cultural critic born in the UK with South Asian/British roots. His artworks have been presented across Canada and in India, Europe & the USA. Chris has been persistently interested in questions of absence in art discourses. Whose epistemology is unquestioned? Who has power? Who does not? Why not?
For 30 years, he has worked extensively as an arts policy consultant for artists in all disciplines; arts organizations/institutions; government agencies in Canada and internationally. In 1989-91, Chris was a consultant to the Canada Council on issues of cultural/racial equity. His work launched the formation of two important offices – the Aboriginal Arts Office and the Equity Office which have subsequently led the way in transforming the Council from an exclusively European arts agency to one in which multiple art traditions and practices are honoured and funded. In 1991-92, he worked at the Banff Centre designing and directing a 20 artists’ residency, Race and the Body Politic which indirectly influenced the establishment of the Aboriginal Arts program. In 2012, Chris was a co-recipient, with France Trépanier, of the inaugural Audain Aboriginal Curatorial Fellowship awarded by Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. In 2011, they co-authored Understanding Aboriginal Art in Canada Today for the Canada Council.
Aruna Srivastava—from the University of Calgary: Aruna Srivastava is an accomplished professor and advocate and leader for Indigenous teaching and learning. She joined the University of Calgary in 1992 as an assistant professor with a BA and MA from the University of Waterloo and a PhD from McMaster University. Her work has focused on feminism, race theory and anti-racism, pedagogy, postcolonial and Indigenous studies.
In additional to serving on many departmental, faculty and university committees, Aruna has been coordinator of the Faculty of Arts International Indigenous Studies program since 2013, and special advisor to the Faculty of Graduate Studies on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion since 2017. Most recently, she has contributed her wisdom and expertise to the Working Group for ii’taa’poh’to’p, the university’s Indigenous strategy.
Our Intro/Outro music is Monarch of the Streets by Loyalty Freak Music, accessed from the Free Music Archive.
Show Notes
This interview of Lillian Allen by Chrystos was recorded during a TIA House symposium called Wisdom Council in September 2019. Wisdom Council recognized the imperfect knowledge transmission methods of the colonial system, and particularly the ways it has tended to fragment non-Western knowledges and privilege the textual over the oral. Using a combination of traditional and contemporary practices, it brought together a small council of mostly BIPOC senior practitioners in the contemporary arts to sit in council over three days to discuss such topics as what our communities need now; memory and forgetting; care of elders in racialized communities; stories of the past, present and future; stories in cyclical time; community formations they’ve experienced; community formations they remember; how they understand the work that needs to be done; and practices and strategies that might be of use or interest in the present moment. This interview was recorded as part of the gathering’s work.
Chrystos—from poetry foundation: Menominee poet and activist Chrystos was born in San Francisco. In her work, she examines themes of feminism, social justice, and Native rights… She is the author of several collections of poetry, including Not Vanishing (1988), Dream On (1991), and Fire Power (1995)…Chrystos’s work has been featured in the anthologies This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981, edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa) and Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology (1988, edited by Will Roscoe). With Tristan Taormino, she coedited the anthology Best Lesbian Erotica 1999 (1999).
Lillian Allen—from her website— Lillian Allen is a professor of creative writing at Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD)… Multi-disciplinary and experimental, Allen’s creativity crosses many genres including radio, theatre, music and film; as a writer, featured artist and producer/director and national radio show host… Allen is a recognized authority and activist on issues of diversity in culture, cultural equity, cross cultural collaborations, and the power of arts in education and has worked, locally, nationally and internationally in this capacity. Her eclectic, insightful and inspiring lectures and performances have taken her as far as Jamaica and Switzerland. She has also held the post of distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Canada’s Queen’s University and University of Windsor.
A small correction: the interview with Sammy (the father of soul) discussed in this interview (28:40) is an interview with Sam Cooke. To learn more about Sam Cooke’s music and activism the documentary ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke is available on Netflix or The Sam Cooke Story is available on youtube.
We recognize the generous support of the Canada Research Chairs program and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. We also appreciate the support of the Faculty of Arts and the Department of English at the University of Calgary, where our offices are housed. As well as the guidance of Marc Stoeckle at the Taylor Family Digital Library. TIA House is run by Larissa Lai, Trynne Delaney, Rebecca Geleyn, Isabelle Michalski, and Joshua Whitehead.
Our Intro/Outro music is Monarch of the Streets by Loyalty Freak Music, accessed from the Free Music Archive.