I love this conversation with Kyla Jamieson, a poet, model, activist and aquatic. We discuss everything from post-concussion syndrome, eating disorders, disability justice, mixed race, accessibility, bisexuality, the magic of water, trauma, the modelling industry, resilience and healing.
*Note, there were some minor microphone glitches at the beginning of our conversation, but they get resolved after the first 15 minutes.
Kyla Jamieson is a disabled writer who lives and relies on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Room Magazine, Poetry Is Dead, Arc Poetry Magazine, Vallum, Peach Mag, Plenitude, GUTS, and The Account. She is the author of Kind of Animal (Rahila’s Ghost Press), a poetry chapbook about the aftermath of a brain injury. Her work was longlisted for the 2019 CBC Poetry Prize and her first book-length collection of poems, Body Count, placed third in the Metatron Prize for Rising Authors. Find Kyla on Instagram as @airymeantime.
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