Posts by Larissa Lai
Joshua Whitehead: Why I’m Withdrawing From My Lambda Literary Award Nomination
This past week, Joshua Whitehead was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award in the Trans Poetry category. In a moving act of radical kinship, he decided to pull out. TIA House is proud to publish his letter to the award organizers.
Read MoreNotes on Indiginegativity: An Addendum by Joshua Whitehead
You dig through your library and find Wacousta sitting in front of you, to its left, The Edible Woman, and to its right, In the Village of Viger; stacked atop…
Read MoreStatement from the TWUC Equity Task Force in Response to Niedzviecki editorial “Winning the Appropriation Prize”
We, the Equity Task Force of TWUC are writing in response to the editorial in the latest issue of WRITE. We are angry and appalled by the publication of “Winning…
Read MorePaper Hearts Video Now Online!: TIA House’s New YouTube Channel
At the request of several panellists as well as our friends beyond The University of Calgary, TIA House recorded the Paper Hearts: Gender and Power in Turtle Island Literary Communities…
Read MoreThe Littoral Contact Zone: Indigenous/Asian Relations from the Salish Seas to Treaty 7 Territories
SYMPOSIUM/A GATHERING The Littoral Contact Zone: Indigenous/Asian Relations from the Salish Sea to Treaty 7 Territories March 9-10, 2017 The Insurgent Architects’ House for Creative Writing, SS1059, University of Calgary,…
Read MoreFebruary 15, 2017: Paper Hearts II: Gender and Power in Turtle Island Literary/Canadian/US Literary Communities
Paper Hearts II: Gender and Power in Turtle Island Literary/Canadian/US Literary Communities Wednesday, February 15, 2017 The Insurgent Architects’ House for Creative Writing University of Calgary SS1059 2500 University Drive…
Read MoreTaking Stock
It’s that time of year to look back, and I’ve been asked to name all the things that TIA House has done since it started for more official purposes. I…
Read MoreRelational Innovations: Creative Writing as Social Practice
Relational Innovations: Creative Writing as Social Practice Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016 Innovative writing and socially-oriented writing are often imagined as incompatible practices. This collaboratively organized one-day symposium at The Insurgent…
Read MoreJill Yonit Goldberg: Decolonize This: On Taking the English Out of English Departments
One of the great joys of organizing TIA House events is the opportunity to bring together other writers and thinkers on questions of justice and aesthetics. This piece, by the…
Read MoreTwo poems by Rita Wong in Honour of Sharron Proulx-Turner
Two poems by Rita Wong in honour of Sharron Proulx-Turner
Read MoreTIA House’s Equity Now Panel at the Writers’ Summit
Friday, June 17, 2016 10:00am-11:15am, Miss Lou’s Room, Harbourfront, Toronto Our present moment is one that inherits a long history of anti-racist/cultural diversity/cultural equity movements in Canadian/Turtle Island writing communities,…
Read MoreTIA House Guide to the Canadian Writers’ Summit
TIA HOUSE GUIDE TO THE CANADIAN WRITERS’ SUMMIT Harbourfront Toronto June 15 – 19, 2016 Attempting to navigate the 68-page program for this year’s Writers’ Summit can be a challenge.…
Read MoreThe United Nations Train Station Museum
Larissa Lai for Sharron Proulx-Turner May 29, 2016 playing with “why crow knows weendigo’s not all he’s cracked up to be” from What The Auntys Say down at the united…
Read MoreJustice Aesthetics: Paul Yee on A Superior Man
For this piece, Larissa threw three terms at me: justice, aesthetics, and writerly insurgency. I liked the last term best because its synonyms are brave: dissent, insurrection, revolt, uprising. However,…
Read MoreKen Belford: Slick Reckoning
Ken Belford was born in DeBolt, Alberta, and grew up in East Vancouver. As a young man, he worked on the log booms of the BC lower mainland, and as…
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