Amber Dawn

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Amber Dawn

Amber Dawn (* 1974 in Crystal Beach , Fort Erie ) is a Canadian writer , filmmaker , performance artist and queer - feminist activist .

Life

Dawn was born in Crystal Beach in 1974. Her parents, from New York coming hippies had the US leave in 1969, so that the Father could not be called up for military service. After Dawn graduated from Fort Erie High School in 1992 , she worked as a sex worker in Vancouver for several years . In 1995 she became a member of a feminist anti-violence collective. Meanwhile, she studied Liberal Arts at the University of British Columbia and, after eight years, obtained a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing .

She became a member of the Change the [Criminal] Code Committee, which campaigned against the criminalization of prostitution . With the Miss Nomer Collective she wrote and directed Girl on Girl: A Documentary , a “genderfuck documentary - porno ” which won the 2004 Zed People's Choice Short Film Award at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. Between 2004 and 2008 she toured the US four times with the activist performance group Sex Workers' Art Show. Your commitment was u. a. 2008 with the Hero of the Year Award of the Xtra! West magazine (Vancouver). In 2005, Dawn and Trish Kelly published the short story collection With A Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn . From 2008 to 2012 she was the program director of the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. In 2009, Dawn published the anthology Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire .

In 2010 her debut novel Sub Rosa was published , for which she was awarded the Lesbian Debut Fiction Prize at the 23rd Lambda Literary Awards . Her autobiographical How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir (2013) is a mixture of essay and poetry about sex work, activism, art and the violent environment in Vancouver's Downtown East Side. Dawn avoids linear narrative structures as well as sensational or pitiful clichés . How Poetry Saved My Life won the City of Vancouver Book Award in 2013.

She has been teaching creative writing at Douglas College in New Westminster since 2013 . She also teaches at the University of British Columbia and as a volunteer mentor in various community arts and rehabilitation facilities . In 2015 her first volume of poetry, Where The Words End And My Body Begins, was published . The poems are modeled on the Spanish Glosa , a poem form from the late 14th century, in which the first stanza and "the last verse of each stanza [...] come from the quartins of another poet". This method, made known by Patricia Kathleen Page in Canada, of entering into dialogue with other poets and showing them respect, is used by Dawn on poets from the "queer, gender- creative, feminist and / or survivor spectrum".

Works (selection)

Novels
Poetry
essay
  • "Does a Lesbian Need a Vagina Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle? Or, Would the 'Real' Lesbian Please Stand Up!", In: Canadian Woman Studies 24/2 (2005) pp. 92-101.
Anthologies
  • Trish Kelly and Amber Dawn (Eds.), With A Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn Arsenal Plup Press, 2005 ISBN 978-1-55152-193-0 .
  • Amber Dawn (Ed.), Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire. Arsenal Plup Press, 2009 ISBN 978-1-55152-251-7 .

Movie

  • Girl on Girl: A Documentary (2004)

Awards (selection)

  • 2004 Zed People's Choice Short Film Award for Girl on Girl: A Documentary (Miss Nomer Collective)
  • 2008 Hero of the Year award
  • 2011 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction for Sub Rosa
  • 2012 Dayne Ogilvie Prize
  • 2013 City of Vancouver Book Award for How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Tiffany Johnstone, Writing is Activism: * The Feminist Poetics of Amber Dawn (July 24, 2013) at: womensuffrage.org, accessed September 18, 2015.
  2. ↑ Sarah Schuchard, Being queer and sexpositive: a conversation with Amber Dawn (November 20, 2013) at: kwantlenchronicle.ca, accessed on September 18, 2015 (English).
  3. ↑ Michael V. Smith, Girl on Girl: A Documentary ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file) at: michaelvsmith.com, accessed on September 18, 2015 (English). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.michaelvsmith.com
  4. ↑ Desirée O, Amber Dawn: On Top with Sub Rosa (April 15, 2010) on: shamelessmag.com, on: shamelessmag.com, accessed on September 18, 2015 (English).
  5. ↑ Craig Takeuchi, Amber Dawn leaves Vancouver Queer Film Festival for literary life (August 27, 2012), from: straight.com, accessed September 18, 2015.
  6. ↑ Lambda Literary Foundation, 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards Announced in New York (May 27, 2011), at: constantcontact.com, accessed on September 18, 2015 (English).
  7. ^ Sue Carter, Amber Dawn wins City of Vancouver Book Award (November 25, 2013), from: quillandquire.com, accessed September 18, 2015.
  8. ↑ Community Partner Little Sister's Book & Art Emporium (July 24, 2015) at: queerartsfestival.com, accessed on September 18, 2015 (English).
  9. ↑ Amber Dawn, "Introduction", in: Where The Words End And My Body Begins . Arsenal Plup Press, 2015 ISBN 978-1-55152-583-9 .
  10. ↑ James Harbeck, glosa (August 17, 2012), from: sesquiotic.wordpress.com, accessed on September 18, 2015 (English).
  11. ^ MAC Farrant, Poetry: Amber Dawn finds her own song. Fearless, raw and sassy trumps depression and abuse (April 24, 2015), at: vancouversun.com, accessed September 18, 2015.
  12. ↑ Vancouver's Amber Dawn wins LGBT literary award (June 26, 2012) at: cbc.ca, accessed on September 18, 2015 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Dawn, Amber
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer, filmmaker, performance artist and queer feminist activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Crystal Beach , Fort Erie