I‘ve been very keen to listen to this #audiobook since hearing the author speak so powerfully at #VWF2018
Buffy Sainte-Marie, onstage with Andrea Warner at #VWF2018: “Songs like Universal Soldier, I treat them like I‘m writing for a college professor who doesn‘t like me and I want to get an A++.”
(Buffy also mentioned her fake tiger fur jacket has been in her closet since the 70s.) #IndigenousIcon
#Litsymeetup at #VWF2018. 😁
Left: @BookishTrish
Middle: me
Right: @KathyR
The event we were at featured Esi Edugyan, Rawi Hage and Alix Hawley. It wasn‘t as dynamic as I had hoped, but our bookish talk beforehand made up for that.
“Our home is gone. It was taken away. If I wanted to exercise my traditional hunting rights, I would be killing a banker‘s Pomeranian.” -Cherie Dimaline, speaking at #VWF2018 Dimaline was a guest curator at the festival. 10 out of 100 authors in attendance are #Indigenous.
(Internet photo)
Today at #VWF2018, Jordan Tannahill said, “We‘ve lived 2000 years with the Augustinian terror of having a body. The shame of pleasure is rooted in this terror.”
Sarah Winman added that we need education for young women about pleasure in regards to sex. To know that if sex is not pleasurable, they should stop or change what is happening.
(Incidentally, author Randy Boyagoda brought up St Augustine in conversation yesterday.)
