I'm passing on the word because the last Agitate event I went to for Pride was awesome.
Agitate! presents...
OutWrite! - queer/trans/two-spirit writers of colour and indigenous writers refuse to be written out!
Thursday, August 20th, doors open at 6:30 pm, reading at 7 pm
Montgomery Legion Hall, 330 Kent St, near Somerset
wheelchair accessible
Tickets at the door: $10-20 sliding scale
all ticket proceeds to Migrants' Trade Union of South Korea
Agitate! presents an exciting reading event and panel of writers and poets in celebration of Pride. Often writers of marginalized identities face
challenges in presenting and publishing their own points of view coupled with the threat of their voices being tokenized and co-opted in the process. Featuring both emerging and established writers from Ottawa and beyond, this panel will explore issues of representation, intersectionality and how identity and experience are expressed in the writers' craft.
Panel:
Nalo Hopkinson
Trish Salah
Kalyani Pandya
Rob Friday
Additional reading performances by:
Salimah Valiani
Faye Estrella
This event will also be a fundraising effort for the Migrant Trade Union
(MTU) in South Korea. MTU is a union of documented and undocumented migrant workers in South Korea, the only union of its kind in the world today. The MTU has joined in the struggle of GLBT people in South Korea, including defending the needs of its own GLBT members. Agitate feels it is important to connect our work with the struggle of other racialized people in the world, especially as the rights of migrant workers in Canada continue to be largely ignored.
Agitate! is an Ottawa-based collective of queer indigenous women, mixed race women and women of colour. For more information, please contact agitate_ottawa@yahoo.ca
