Join Tea Gerbeza in celebrating the launch of her book alongside Jason Purcell and Chelsey Campbell at Magpie Books (9553 76th Ave NW Edmonton, AB)!

There will be readings, signings, art to view, and a conversation between the three on disability poetics and art practice. Books will be for sale through Magpie Books.

The event starts at 7:00 pm and is open to the public. Masks are appreciated.

Tea Gerbeza is a neuroqueer disabled writer and multimedia artist. She has an MFA in Writing from the University of Saskatchewan and an MA in English & Creative Writing from the University of Regina. She is the winner of the Ex-Puritan’s 2022 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence for poetry, and has published widely in magazines including ARC magazine, Action Spectacle, The Poetry Foundation, Wordgathering, and Contemporary Verse 2, among others. Tea resides in oskana kâ-asastêki in Treaty 4 territory (Regina, SK) with her spouse, three dogs, and cat. How I Bend Into More is her first book. She hopes you spiral art from its pages.

Chelsey Campbell (they/she) is a queer crip artist, educator, and cultural worker. A nonbinary white settler of Scottish descent, Campbell graciously resides as an uninvited guest in  ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ amiskwacîwâskahikan (or so-called Edmonton, Alberta) on Treaty 6 Territory. Exploring tender narratives of Disability Justice, feminized care labour, and crip kinship,  their practice intertwines performance autoethnography with community-oriented practices of access, care, and interdependence.

Jason Purcell is a settler writer from amiskwacîwâskahikan, Treaty 6. They are the author of Swollening and Crohnic.