Talk with Ivan Coyote
Tues. Aug. 4 @ 2pm
Online Video | All Ages | Free
Online Video | All Ages | Free
Chest Air: An Afternoon of Stories with Ivan Coyote
Join us for a screening of this very special Yukon Pride performance: An afternoon with internationally renowned storyteller, Ivan Coyote. Join the award-winning author, artist and educator and third-generation Yukoner as they grapple with the complex and intensely personal topics of gender identity, family, class, and queer liberation, always with a generous heart, and a quick wit. Ivan's stories manage to handle both the hilarious and the historical with reverence and compassion, and remind us all of our own fallible and imperfect humanity while at the same time inspiring us to change the world.
ABOUT IVAN COYOTE
(Website / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter)
Ivan Coyote is a writer and storyteller who was born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. In 2019 Ivan marked 25 years on the road as an international touring storyteller and musician, and released their twelfth book, Rebent Sinner. Coyote’s stories grapple with the complex and intensely personal topics of gender identity, family, class, and queer liberation, but always with a generous heart, and a quick wit. Ivan's stories manage to handle both the hilarious and the historical with reverence and compassion, and remind us all of our own fallible and imperfect humanity, while at the same time inspiring us to change the world.
"Coyote ought to be recognized as one of Canada’s great humorists, although often the stories are the laughing-through-tears variety. A lot of grit and a lot of heart.”
- Jade Colbert (Globe and Mail)
HOW TO WATCH
Check out the Queer Yukon Facebook Page on Tues. Aug. 4 @ 2pm to join the Watch Party!
Video is available for a limited time only (until Aug. 11, 2020).
ABOUT REBENT SINNER BY IVAN COYOTE
In Rebent Sinner, one of North America's pre-eminent storytellers and performers takes on the intimate and the personal as well as the political in beguiling and revealing stories about what it means for them to be trans and non-binary today. At a time in their life when they must carry the burden of heartbreaking history, while combatting those who would deny their very existence, these stories span thirty years of tackling TERFS, legislators, and bathroom police. But there is delight and pleasure and triumph to be found here, too, as Ivan pays homage to personal heroes while gently guiding younger trans folk to seek joy and find their family as well. Rebent Sinner is the work of an accomplished artist whose plain truths about their experience will astound readers with their utter, breathtaking humanity.
"From pronoun choice and queer visibility to gendered spaces like bathrooms, Coyote showcases the complexity of everyday experience... On all these topics, the expression is careful, deeply considered and suffused with compassion."
- Bret Josef Grubisic (Vancouver Sun)
"There is a courageous vulnerability in Coyote’s writing, in which they offer up their own stories in the hope of fostering connections and overcoming prejudice... The book is hilarious, heart-breaking, uplifting. It is, in other words, profoundly human."
- Michelle Deines, (Understorey Magazine)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Queer Yukon Society gratefully acknowledges the funding from the Government of Yukon Women’s Directorate, Public Service Commission, and Department of Tourism and Culture.
CODE OF CONDUCT
Queer Yukon Society is committed to fostering harassment-free community spaces where all employees, volunteers, and community members are treated with respect and dignity. Queer Yukon Society will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on (but not limited to): ancestry, including colour and race; national origin; ethnic or linguistic background or origin; religion or creed, or religious belief, religious association, or religious activity; age; sex, including pregnancy, and pregnancy related conditions; gender identity or gender expression; sexual orientation; physical or mental disability; criminal charges or criminal record; political belief, political association, or political activity; marital or family status; or source of income.
If you have experienced discrimination or harassment in a Queer Yukon community space, please let the event organizer know immediately or contact us at: info@queeryukon.com.
Join us for a screening of this very special Yukon Pride performance: An afternoon with internationally renowned storyteller, Ivan Coyote. Join the award-winning author, artist and educator and third-generation Yukoner as they grapple with the complex and intensely personal topics of gender identity, family, class, and queer liberation, always with a generous heart, and a quick wit. Ivan's stories manage to handle both the hilarious and the historical with reverence and compassion, and remind us all of our own fallible and imperfect humanity while at the same time inspiring us to change the world.
ABOUT IVAN COYOTE
(Website / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter)
Ivan Coyote is a writer and storyteller who was born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. In 2019 Ivan marked 25 years on the road as an international touring storyteller and musician, and released their twelfth book, Rebent Sinner. Coyote’s stories grapple with the complex and intensely personal topics of gender identity, family, class, and queer liberation, but always with a generous heart, and a quick wit. Ivan's stories manage to handle both the hilarious and the historical with reverence and compassion, and remind us all of our own fallible and imperfect humanity, while at the same time inspiring us to change the world.
"Coyote ought to be recognized as one of Canada’s great humorists, although often the stories are the laughing-through-tears variety. A lot of grit and a lot of heart.”
- Jade Colbert (Globe and Mail)
HOW TO WATCH
Check out the Queer Yukon Facebook Page on Tues. Aug. 4 @ 2pm to join the Watch Party!
Video is available for a limited time only (until Aug. 11, 2020).
ABOUT REBENT SINNER BY IVAN COYOTE
In Rebent Sinner, one of North America's pre-eminent storytellers and performers takes on the intimate and the personal as well as the political in beguiling and revealing stories about what it means for them to be trans and non-binary today. At a time in their life when they must carry the burden of heartbreaking history, while combatting those who would deny their very existence, these stories span thirty years of tackling TERFS, legislators, and bathroom police. But there is delight and pleasure and triumph to be found here, too, as Ivan pays homage to personal heroes while gently guiding younger trans folk to seek joy and find their family as well. Rebent Sinner is the work of an accomplished artist whose plain truths about their experience will astound readers with their utter, breathtaking humanity.
"From pronoun choice and queer visibility to gendered spaces like bathrooms, Coyote showcases the complexity of everyday experience... On all these topics, the expression is careful, deeply considered and suffused with compassion."
- Bret Josef Grubisic (Vancouver Sun)
"There is a courageous vulnerability in Coyote’s writing, in which they offer up their own stories in the hope of fostering connections and overcoming prejudice... The book is hilarious, heart-breaking, uplifting. It is, in other words, profoundly human."
- Michelle Deines, (Understorey Magazine)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Queer Yukon Society gratefully acknowledges the funding from the Government of Yukon Women’s Directorate, Public Service Commission, and Department of Tourism and Culture.
CODE OF CONDUCT
Queer Yukon Society is committed to fostering harassment-free community spaces where all employees, volunteers, and community members are treated with respect and dignity. Queer Yukon Society will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on (but not limited to): ancestry, including colour and race; national origin; ethnic or linguistic background or origin; religion or creed, or religious belief, religious association, or religious activity; age; sex, including pregnancy, and pregnancy related conditions; gender identity or gender expression; sexual orientation; physical or mental disability; criminal charges or criminal record; political belief, political association, or political activity; marital or family status; or source of income.
If you have experienced discrimination or harassment in a Queer Yukon community space, please let the event organizer know immediately or contact us at: info@queeryukon.com.