Join us for a reading and talk with jaye simpson, who often writes about being queer in the child welfare system, as well as being queer and Indigenous.

jaye simpson is an Oji-Cree Saulteaux Indigiqueer writer and activist from the Sapotaweyak Cree Nation with Scottish and French settler ancestry. Their poems and essays are published in Poetry Is Dead, This Magazine, PRISM international, SAD Mag, GUTS Magazine and Room. simpson is also published in Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry, as well as, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction. simpson resides on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlilwəta’Ɂɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) First Nations peoples, currently and colonially known as Vancouver, BC. it was never going to be okay is their first book.

The On Edge Reading Series seeks to enrich literary and writing communities both inside and outside of ECU. The 2021 season highlights the work of BIPOC writers and marginalized writing communities such as those involved in sex work, and those at the intersections of race, mental illness, disability, and queerness. We will showcase nine poets who are doing the freshest, most interesting, relevant work, and who are volunteers, literary award winners, social justice organizers, prison abolitionists, literary organizers, dancers, managing editors, filmmakers, creative writing instructors, and scholars. Curated and hosted by Mercedes Eng, and co-hosted by Vance Wright.

Upcoming:
MAR 25 - Billy-Ray Belcourt

All readings start at 6pm PST and are open to the public.

Please e-mail onedge@ecuad.ca for the Zoom room link or if you have any questions!