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View this post on Instagram Since your death our conversations have gotten better. You ask about the birds we have here on the island. Your garden, like your mothers, was filled with bird feeders. You kept […]
When I was 12 my mother told me that I should write the history of the revolution she believed would happen in her lifetime. At sixteen I was sitting in a safe house in Brooklyn listening […]
Thirty-three years ago today the second American revolution was supposed to begin. I sometimes wonder if it was all an elaborate joke the Old Man (aka Gerald Dodein aka Gino Perente) played on us. Setting a […]
As part of my commitment to #writersresist and to celebrate the first anniversary of Red Star Tattoo I am looking to fundraise for social and climate justice causes through readings and workshops. You donate to a mutual […]
“Larsen’s memoir is a mesmerizing story of an often-forgotten part of history.” National Post – The NP99: The best books of the year, vol. 4 (24–2) – December 8 2016
“Raised in a hippie commune, a teen winds up in a revolutionary collective in Brooklyn where the charismatic leader’s sexual abuse doesn’t reduce her revolutionary fervour. Sounds like some wild fiction, but it’s actually a memoir […]
Here is a picture that a friend sent to me of a book case at the Tommy Douglas library. I’m in some pretty interesting company there, but then again, these feel like pretty interesting times. Gino (aka the Old […]
Why you should read Sonja Larsen’s Red Star Tattoo CBC The Next Chapter