Saturday, February 16, 2019, 3pmDanielle LaFrance lives on occupied and stolen xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ lands. She is a poet, com...
Danielle LaFrance reads from "JUST LIKE I LIKE IT" (Talon Books, 2019).
Empathy under late capitalism | PennSound podcast #71
Levi Bentley, Ted Rees, and Danielle LaFrance met in the Wexler Studio in November 2019 to discuss LaFrance’s books Just Like I Like It and Friendly + Fire as a part of the Housework series. Their conversation touched on the gross and grotesque, “it” as ideology, abolishing the self and the “sovereign I,” empathy in a late-capitalist world, and the discomfort of being both a participant in and host to parasitic social injustice.
Polyvocal performance/action by the Gassy Jack statue in Gastown, Vancouver. Voices: Muriel Marjorie, reading the February 14, 2014, list of missing and murdered Downtown Eastside Vancouver women. Cecily Nicholson, reading the poem “Vocabulary to Come” from Janey’s Arcadia (Coach House, 2014); Natalie Knight, reading poems from Marie Annharte Baker’s book Indigena Awry; and Danielle LaFrance and Rachel Zolf, reading voices from the poem “What Women Say of the Canadian Northwest” in Janey’s Arcadia. Documentation footage by Arlene Bowman, with secondary audio by Aaron Vidaver.