VIRTUAL EVENT | Disability Series #1: Elsa Sjunneson and Dominik Parisien

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Dominik Parisien, Side Effects May Include Strangers, will join fellow writer Elsa Sjunneson for Argo Bookshop's inaugural event of their Disability Series. Parisien and Sjunneson are co-editors of the Hugo Award-winning special issue of Uncanny Magazine, Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! Join Elsa and Dominik in conversation about the project and how it shaped the work they're doing now, as well as readings of their work.

ACCESSIBILITY INFO

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ABOUT THE COLLECTION

To be ill is to be a body bursting with strangers. A curiosity. A narrative to interpret. Dominik Parisien's debut collection is a poignant celebration of the complicated lived experience of disability, a challenge to the societal gaze, and a bold reconfiguration of the language of pain. Balancing hope and uncertainty, anger and gratitude, these poems shift from medical practice to myth, from trauma to intergenerational friendship, in an unflinching exploration of the beauty and complexity of othered bodies.

Dominik Parisien is a writer, editor, and poet and the author of the chapbook We, Old Young Ones. He lives in Toronto.