Love and other prompts in a shifting world with Erica Cardwell and Chloé Savoie-Bernard

Le vendredi 25 avril 2025, à 18h00.

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Librairie féministe L'Euguélionne, 1426 Beaudry (métro Beaudry)

𝐿𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝓂𝓅𝓉𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝒶 𝓈𝒽𝒾𝒻𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓁𝒹

6H @ 1426 BEAUDRY ST, come with your friends and loved ones !

We are delighted to welcome the wonderful authors Erica Cardwell (assistant professor at University of Toronto Scarborough) and Chloé Savoie-Bernard (professor at Queen's University) for a discussion on Love and other prompts in a shifting world. Join us alongside their beautiful books, Wrong is Not My Name: Notes on (Black) Art and Sainte Chloé de l'amour.

ERICA CARDWELL

Erica Cardwell is a writer, critic and educator based in Brooklyn and Toronto. She is the recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and a New York State Council for Arts, Grant for Artists.

WRONG IS NOT MY NAME: NOTES ON (BLACK) ART

(Feminist Press, 2024)

A dazzling hybrid of personal memoir and criticism, considering the work of Black visual artists as a means to explore loss, legacy, and the reclamation of life through art. At the age of twenty-one, Erica Cardwell finds herself in New York City, reeling from the loss of her mother and numb to the world around her. She turns inward instead, reading books and composing poetry, eventually falling into the work of artists such as Blondell Cummings, Lorna Simpson, Lorraine O’Grady, and Kara Walker. Through them, she communes with her mother’s spirit and legacy, and finds new ways to interrogate her writing and identity.

CHLOÉ SAVOIE-BERNARD

Chloé Savoie-Bernard is a writer who works various forms: poetry, short story, literary criticism, and translation. As an editor she works at L’Hexagone, a publishing house in Montréal. She is also developing a practice in performance. She has published several books, most notably Des femmes savantes, (Triptyque, 2016) and most recently Sainte Chloé de l’amour (Hexagone, 2021).

SAINTE CHLOÉ DE L'AMOUR

(Éditions de l'Hexagone, 2019)

Chloé Savoie-Bernard continues her poetic exploration of desire, identity and the relationship with the other in a collection of ardent, elegant impudence. In embodied verses that put reading under tension, reaction - gendered, racist, social - continues to brutalize the intellect. And this time, the desire for elevation and the figure of the feminine transcended, for better or for worse, come into play.

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Books will be available for purchase if you want to get your own copy !