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WHITE SPACES WHERE WE LEARN TO BREATHE IBD

MURGATROYD MONAGHAN
OFF TOPIC PUBLISHING
08 / 2025
9781738988549
Inglés

Sinopsis

she donâÇÖt bite, my father said about me as a child.what he meant wasit ainâÇÖt her fault if your skin reacts to her saliva. it was, thoughpartially, see, if you think weâÇÖre all in this together, but i wasnâÇÖt the one withblack-and-white thinking.from 'you think autistic people cannot be journalists because we suffer from black-and-white thinking'á'white spaces where we learn to breathe' is art that combines space, text and punctuation as social commentary on the both the spaces that are typically 'white spaces', and also the spaces left behind by missing and murdered BIPOC on Turtle Island. The reader is encouraged to breathe inside these spaces, and to observe them as one might observe a moment of silence.ááAbout Murgatroyd MonaghanMurgatroyd Monaghan is an Autistic mother, writer, spoken work artist and poet of mixed descent. Her spoken word won first place at the Wordstock Sudbury Literary Festival and Myths and Mirrors. Her piece 'Thumbs' won the Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize. She has been a finalist for dozens of national literary prizes including the Room Poetry Contest and the CBC Nonfiction Prize. Other writing has been published in Chapter House Review, PRISM, and the Humber Literary Review, among many others. Murgatroyd has devoted her adult life to motherhood and is pursuing writing now that her children are older. She is working on several book-length projects. A former asylum-seeker, Monaghan was raised in Ontario, Canada.