August 28, 2024 (Zoom): Cross-Pollinations

August 15, 2024

Join the League of Canadian Poets, the Health Arts Research Centre, and the Canadian Association for Health Humanities for the next iteration of the Cross-Pollinations Virtual Rounds Series.

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August 28, 2024 | 3pm PT/6pm ET

The Wednesday, August 28, 2024 Cross-Pollinations event will feature poets Kama La Mackerel and Valérie Bah, with Sue Hranilovic from St. Michael's Hospital, for readings and a discussion on the theme of trans health and healthcare.
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Valérie Bah is a Tiohtià:ke-based artist whose work explores liberatory creative structures, intergenerational trauma & healing, as well as mundane/radical acts of survival. Couched in magical realism, their narratives are driven by Black feminist thought and lived experience.
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Sue Hranilovic (she/her/hers) is a Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner at St. Michael’s Hospital Academic Family Health Team (SMH AFHT), and has called this her clinical home base since 1994.  She considers herself an “old nurse” of 30+ years and a newer Nurse Practitioner of 10 years.  She has been a consultant trainer with Rainbow Health Ontario since 2014, expanding capacity provincially by teaching about transgender and gender expansive medical and surgical primary health care.  Suza’s incredibly supportive work environment has provided the time and space needed to develop this clinical expertise.  She feels very lucky that her current clinical practice is almost exclusively devoted to the overall primary care needs of trans and gender expansive folk, which she endeavors to provide from an anti-oppressive, harm reduction, sex positive and health promotion perspective.

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Kama La Mackerel is a Mauritian-Canadian multilingual writer, visual artist, performer, educator and literary translator who believes in love, justice and self and collective empowerment. Their practice blurs the lines between traditional artistic disciplines to create hybrid aesthetic spaces from which decolonial and queer/trans vocabularies can emerge. At once narratological and theoretical, personal and political, their interdisciplinary method, developed over the past decade, is grounded ritual, meditation, ancestral healing modalities, auto-ethnography, oral history, archival research and community-arts facilitation.

Kama has lectured, performed and exhibited their work internationally in museums, galleries, theatres and universities. In 2021, they were awarded the Canada Council for the Arts Joseph S. Stauffer Prize for emerging and mid-career artists in Visual Arts. Their award-winning book ZOM-FAM (Metonymy Press) was named a CBC Best Poetry Book and a Globe and Mail Best Debut. Kama lives and loves in Tio’tia:ke, also known as Montréal.

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