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You Can’t Own the Fucking Stars: Montreal Launch
06/09/2018 @ 18:30 - 20:00
Clementine Morrigan launches their new book, You Can’t Own the Fucking Stars: Collected Writings on Trauma, Addiction, Recovery, and Transformation.
With guest poets Stephanie E. Creaghan and Rebecca Woodmass.
What does it take to recover from trauma? Opening with a piece that juxtaposes the pleasures of masturbation with the terrors of a courtroom during a rape trial, You Can’t Own the Fucking Stars is both a celebration of healing and a fearless testament to resilience in the face of suffering. In their customary engaging and accessible style, Clementine Morrigan offers a series of reflexive vignettes, poems and meditations, written over a period of five years, on their experiences recovering from trauma and addiction. You Can’t Own the Fucking Stars marks the first time that all of these pieces, most originally published in now out of print zines, appear together. This is a book about sex, desire, queerness, bisexuality, pleasure, gender, addiction, sobriety, transformation, and healing from a lifetime of violence. Affirming both the hard work and the joy of recovery, You Can’t Own the Fucking Stars celebrates the magic and power of trauma survivors.
Free entrance.
Doors: 6:30pm
Opening acts: 6:45pm
You Can’t Own the Fucking Stars: 7:05pm
Mingling and book signing: 7:25pm
Accessibility info: L’Euguélionne is on the ground floor but there is a step up to the front door. If you need a barrier free entrance ring the buzzer and someone will come bring you to the other entrance. There’s an all gender washroom but it isn’t wheelchair accessible. This will be an alcohol free event.