October 13, 2016

Thanks to FEMLAB and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Alberta for inviting me to be a part of the Feminist Research Speakers Series 2016-2017.

Lecture details:

Mapping Feminist Ghost Sites: A Queer Return to the Feminist Bookstore

In this artist talk, Roewan Crowe explores the possibilities of a queer return to the feminist bookstore. Drawing from her radically interdisciplinary, trans-media, site-specific artistic practice, she reflects on her early witchy experiences at the feminist bookstore in Edmonton to reimagine a generative and radical feminist space that might provide a home for feminist cultural productions. Crowe mixes a magical concoction: one part Deleuze and Guattari’s notions of deterritorialiation and reterritorialization brought into relationship with LaDuke’s deep understanding of right relationship to the land; one part queer futurity by Munoz’; with one part Spikvak’s passion for remaking the imagination a material practice. Be ready to share your experiences of feminist bookstores.