In issue 102, guest editor Therese Estacion asks: “What do we make of a disabled body or, to use disability justice group Sins Invalid’s term, bodymind that desires? A body that knows all too well how it feels to be told that it has no business wanting for love, wanting for more.”

The poems and essays in this issue approach this question from all angles and “fill the space with their desirous voice.”

Join Arc Poetry for a special launch in Toronto at Society Clubhouse. We will be joined by guest editor, Therese Estacion, as well as contributors from the issue. Copies of the issue will be available at the launch. See more here: https://arcpoetry.ca/editorials/magazine/arc-102/

Society Clubhouse
967 College St, Toronto
Doors at 6:30, readings at 7:00.

Society Clubhouse is a fully accessible venue. Please reach out to us if you have any specific access needs.

READERS:
Sean Kinsella
Andrew Gurza
Steph Paul
Brooke Manning

Seán Carson Kinsella (ê-akimiht nêhi(y/th)aw/otipemisiwak/Nakawé/Irish) is a migizi dodem (Bald Eagle Clan) crip Indigiqueer/aayahkwêw/tastiwiniy smutty poet and writer descended from signatories and kin of Treaties 4, 6 and 8. They were born and live in Toronto and grew up in Williams Treaty territory.

Andrew Gurza is an award-winning Disability Awareness Consultant and the Chief Disability Officer and Co-founder of
Bump’n, a sex toy company for and by disabled people. Find out more at andrewgurza.com

Steph Paul is a writer who lives in Peterborough, ON. She has intellectual disabilities and loves to write poems, stories, and thoughts. She self-published a book of poems in 2010.

Brooke Manning is a poet, musician, death doula, and creator/operator of Likely General, a community shop and gallery in Toronto since 2013. She is a queer polyamorous polytheistic pagan learning to hold her chronic illnesses and fast brain in self-compassion, gratitude, loving kindness, and patience.

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