Lee Arden's THE POLITICS OF LONELY: Toronto Launch and Friendship Forum
About this Event
Friendship is hard because everything is hard, not because you're not trying hard enough. The Politics of Lonely shows how people build tight connections despite living in the austere conditions of colonial capitalism — boldly weaving a new social fabric as this one unravels. Author Lee Arden will be in conversation with local friendship experts Twoey Grey and Pree Rehal.
Lee Arden is originally from Algonquin land in the Ottawa Valley, and now calls Montréal/Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang home. They are the author of many zines, including PALS: The Radical Possibilities of Friendship, Surprisingly OK: What Healing Trauma Feels Like, and the novella Summer Shade. Lee founded and runs Sheer Spite Press, a small press and zine distributor focused on beautiful, affordable work by creators who face barriers such as transphobia, ableism, and poverty in their practice. They’re also a member of the organizing collective for Dick’s Lending Library, a community-run library in Montréal that specializes in the literary, political, and artistic work of trans, non-binary, and Two Spirit authors, and a past intern and forever collective member for the Queer Zine Archive Project. Lee is white, trans, an anarchist, a Quaker, and a deeply imperfect friend, but they try.
Pree Rehal is an artist-educator currently based in Tkaronto, originally from Tiohtià:ke. Pree’s artwork is about learning by doing, and the variety in their work (textiles, zines, animation) is led by their neurodivergence, and is about multi-hyphenate identity as a queer, trans, Disabled, brown artist. They’ve led community arts projects including DigiZine, CRIP COLLAB and Crip Arts Collective working group. The latter most recently worked with the Textile Museum of Canada.
Twoey Gray is a Toronto-based zinester, poet, and pen pal. She is the co-editor of PRUDEmag, a zine reclaiming the term "prude" as a refusal of sex-necessary culture. Her work has appeared in Briarpatch Magazine, CBC Arts, The Ex-Puritan, and on the television series "The Big Sex Talk". She is ready to fall in friends with you.
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