TIA House UofC

The Insurgent Architects' House for Creative Writing

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All Black Lives Out West recordings remain available on our website https://t.co/TgBxa57Qr0 or through our youtube channel: https://t.co/jmLCCV5TPS

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“Looking is a powerplay, right? It’s not just passive gazing, but it creates, it reinvents, it names, it defines, it categorizes.” Episode 41 is out now. Mahmoud Ababneh interviews Bertrand Bickersteth. https://t.co/F3tOmC48Tf

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If you are in Calgary this Thursday, you are welcome to join us in our first in-person event since 2019. TIA House hosts a conversation with Kazim Ali. For more information, https://t.co/QmprvNfgFQ

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“Why even setup the situation so rules need to be broken. Why not promise people freedom from the beginning.”
Episode 30 is out now. Paul Meunier Interviews Ian Williams. You don't want to miss it. https://t.co/XWi7MGgO9W

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“[Letters in a Bruised Cosmos] is also about being a proud Indigenous woman who refuses to be silenced”
We are back. The first episode in 2022 is out now. Paul Meunier interviews Liz Howard. This is an excellent conversation that you don't want to miss.
https://t.co/CFy33W6aqz

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Edith Vane “was me just sort of sending up the surreality of academic life, but I didn’t have to push very hard.” --Suzette Mayr
In this episode, Mahmoud Ababneh interviews Suzette Mayr. It is a conversation about BIPOC scholars' experience in academia. https://t.co/5IpVm5xb6z

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“It is one of the dumbest things about human beings that we can’t learn from pain, especially pain that we inflict on other people.” -Juliane Okot Bitek.
Episode 27 is out now. You don't want to miss it.
https://t.co/2NzlDSBOIE

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“Folks teach narrative structure where you have a beginning, a middle, and an end — a rising tension to crisis and then a denouement...orgasm structure…[but] whose life actually looks like that?”
Episode 26 is out now.
https://t.co/a95gCpplFN

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The new episode of TIAHouse Talks is out. Rebecca Geleyn Interviews Anne Stone to talk about her novel Girl Minus X, trauma writing and other subjects. I hope you enjoy it. https://t.co/ZnjX7rxnYU

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"writing is an explorative process...I want to think with the reader, I don’t want to tell the reader what to think"
Episode 22 is out now. Marc Herman Lynch interviews Kawika Guillermo. This is an amazing conversation that you don't want to miss.
https://t.co/gNsdk7Virr

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“what else is there to do to survive except to get up and honour one’s creative impulses” --Sonnet
The second part of Marj interview with Sonnet is out now. Their conversation continues with important discussions.
https://t.co/GlfwHFn5Df

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“There’s a degree of strength and a kind of emotional set of tools and maturity that any racialized person…had to build themselves”
Marjorie Rugunda interviews Sonnet L’Abbé. You don't want to miss this one. https://t.co/N5vBu8wYaE

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“I think radical forms of inclusivity are really wonderful and I think we always need to lean more into that”
--Jordan Abel.
Episode 20 is out now. Joshua Whitehead interviews Jordan Abel. Enjoy!! https://t.co/qAv5z1o8GG

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Episode 19 is out now. Ian Kinney in a conversation with Paul Meunier. Kinney talks about, , among other things, experimental writing as resistance and subversive practice. For more, https://t.co/t2snE5TCHG

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I discovered that I have to think about my language…how do I describe this process…where it begins…in the Mi’kmaq language, there is no word for goodbye. -- Michelle Sylliboy. For more episode 18 is out now.
https://t.co/uZegxOkLbD

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“What is it that we do with the work –how is it that we remember –and archive the work of our elders…how do we keep that in memory?” Aruna
The last episode of the Wisdom Council is out now. In this podcast, we listen to Multiplicity of Creative Readings. https://t.co/g15ZSUv3yu

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Episode 16: “We Mean You” is out now. Mahmoud Ababneh interviews Shuyin Yu and Trynne Delaney. The episode is a direct address to those complicit in systemic racism, with calls for action, allyship, and antiracism support. https://t.co/pkwlWjYIes

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“I was lucky—I actually had a shrink who helped me come out. But many people didn’t have that kind of story”
—Richard Fung
For more, episode 15 is out now. David Garneau interviews Richard Fung.
https://t.co/lOeRloyaV5

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Episode 14 is out now. It is a Wisdom Council Panel with Chris Creighton-Kelly, Lenore Keeshig, and Lillian Allen.
https://t.co/lGT8NLr9ks

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It’s become very desperate for me; I don’t really have a sense of “CanLit” anymore. I come to it with these drags of the 60 and 70s. I don’t feel it’s part of my view of activity.” For more, episode 13 is out now. Smaro interviews Fred https://t.co/m7Z8Ddb3v5

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“To think of Black people and Black people’s history, especially the Black diaspora . . . our places of significance and being are very much tied to the aquatic”
In Episode 12 of TIA house talks, Trynne Delaney interviews Canisia Lubrin.
https://t.co/kcG7mjD9Bs