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Rêveries | Daydreams by Metropolis bleu | Blue MetropolisTio’tia:ke/Montréal: "Overpass, Decarie Expressway" by Tara McGowan-RossIn collaboration with Radio VM, Blue Metropolis presents Tio’tia:ke/Montréal, a Foulée|Strides podcast series on the theme of the polyvocal histories of this city featuring texts specially authored for Blue Met and you. This episode, "Overpass, Decarie Expressway" by Tara McGowan-Ross, a stroll through the neighbourhood of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.2025-06-1716 min
La Récréation | PlaytimeQUEBEC ROOTS : Young people can be amazing game changers in their communitiesYoung people can be amazing game changers in their communities… Tara McGowan-Ross, writer and poet, speaks with students from Ulluriaq School about leadership and how to create change in their community. Let’s meet these young game changers... This recording was made during workshops led by Tara McGowan-Ross in 2024 as part of the Quebec Roots educational program by the Blue Metropolis Foundation. Recording: Tara McGowan-Ross and Radio VM Intro and outro: Isabel Cout Mixing: Alaric Boyle-Poirier This program is supported by the Ministère de l’Éducation du Québec, TD Bank Gr...2025-03-1909 min
Bold & Creative: Exploring StoriesBOLD & CREATIVE: Interview with Tara McGowan-RossWelcome to the Bold & Creative series from Blue Metropolis! Explore the English-language literary life of Quebec in 2025 through six unique perspectives. Discover the challenges and passions that drive these players on the literary scene. Their hard work and creativity are at the service of promoting writers and preserving literary culture. Immerse yourself in this dynamic world and be inspired by these bold, creative voices. Today, join Tara McGowan-Ross for a captivating conversation hosted by Rachel McCrum. Thank you to our partners Canadian Heritage and the Secrétariat aux relations avec les québécois...2024-11-2623 min
Kwahiatonhk! – Littératures autochtonesLire en relation #19 – La fille (dés)agréable dans Girth de Tara McGowan-Ross, avec Maude-Lanui BaillargeonDans cet épisode, Maude-Lanui Baillargeon s’intéresse aux manifestations du modèle de la nice girl dans Girth (2016), le premier recueil de poésie de l’autrice bispirituelle mi’kmaw Tara McGowan-Ross. Elle se demande, plus particulièrement, comment le rapport de la locutrice à l’impératif d’être une fille agréable apparait marqué par la non-conformité et le refus . Elle explore les thèmes centraux du corps et de la grève étudiante, et plus précisément de l’occupation des espaces physiques ainsi que discursifs par le sujet poétique féminin autochtone dans la poésie de McGowan-Ross....2024-11-1722 min
Fucking CancelledBook Club with Tara and DJ: 'The Ministry for the Future' by Kim Stanley RobinsonIn Episode 63, we get together with DJ Fraser and Tara McGowan-Ross for the second episode of Book Club. This month’s book was The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson, a brutal (and hopeful) near-future 'climate-fiction’ novel published in 2020.We’ll announce the next Book Club book shortly!This is part of the Book Club series.Show NotesThe Ministry for the FutureFollow Fucking Cancelled on Instagram.Find merch in our shop.ClementineMorrigan.comJayLesoleil.comFucking CancelledT...2024-02-071h 33
Fucking CancelledBook Club with Tara and DJ: 'After Black Lives Matter' by Cedric G. JohnsonIn Episode 59, we get together with DJ Fraser and Tara McGowan-Ross for the first episode of our new segment, Book Club. This month’s book is ‘After Black Lives Matter’ by Cedric G. Johnson. We were privileged to interview Cedric Johnson a few episodes back, but we wanted to delve even deeper into this masterful and important piece of political thought, which we encourage everyone to read.If you’d like to follow along for the next episode of Book Club, we will be doing ‘The Ministry for the Future’ by Kim Stanley Robinson!This is part of t...2023-11-261h 41
Stream Popular Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsNothing Will Be Different: A Memoir by Tara Mcgowan-RossPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/545788 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nothing Will Be Different: A Memoir Author: Tara Mcgowan-Ross Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 53 minutes Release date: November 23, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A neurotic party girl's coming-of-age memoir about learning to live before getting ready to die. Tara has it pretty good: a nice job, a writing career, a forgiving boyfriend. She should be happy. Yet Tara can't stay sober. She's terrible at monogamy. Even her psychiatrist grows sick of her and stops returning her calls. She spends most of her time putting out social...2021-11-2330 min
Métis In SpaceMétis in Space Theatre Presents: Tara McGowan-Ross tawâw and welcome to this very special first episode of otipêyimisiw-iskwêwak kihci kîsikohk otôtêma pîkiskwêyiwa: Métis in Space Theatre Presents! Our first guest host is Tara McGowan-Ross, an urban Mi'kmaq multidisciplinary artist. Tara chose to cover Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit, "a World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic." 2021-02-091h 09
Métis In SpaceMétis In Space Theatre Presents: Tara McGowan-Rosstawâw and welcome to this very special first episode of otipêyimisiw-iskwêwak kihci kîsikohk otôtêma pîkiskwêyiwa: Métis in Space Theatre Presents!
Our first guest host is Tara McGowan-Ross, an urban Mi'kmaq multidisciplinary artist. Tara chose to cover Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit, "a World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic."
To support future collaborations, please consider e-transfering any funds you can spare to mislandtrust[at]gmail[dot]com...2021-02-081h 09
The TrustCast: An Edelman PodcastTrust and Politics Part I with Tara McGowan, CEO & Founder of ACRONYMOur 2021 Trust Barometer report shows that trust in government and media are at an all-time low. With the recent riots and storming of the Capitol, a presidential impeachment, and a Biden/Harris administration, there’s a lot to be said about the role trust plays in political messaging – and what we hope to see in the next 100 days. This week, Edelman’s U.S. COO, Lisa Osborne Ross, speaks with Democratic strategist Tara McGowan about what government and media need to do to rebuild trust and avoid disinformation.2021-01-2923 min
Fucking CancelledCancel Club with Tara McGowan-Ross: You Just Wanna Scratch That Justice With Some VengeanceIn Episode 3, our dear friend and comrade Tara McGowan-Ross — poet, multidisciplinary artist, and all-around bad-ass — joins us for Cancel Club. We talk all things cancel culture, spilling the dirt on times we've been cancelled, times our friends have been cancelled, and times we've cancelled others.This episode is dedicated to the memory of Ben Prunty, a good friend and tireless organizer, who left us too soon.Part of the Cancel Club series.Show NotesTara's Instagram and TwitterTara on GoodreadsBuy Tara's booksInsomniac Pres...2020-11-141h 50
Dragonroot MediaLesbians & Queers: A dialogue – Interview with Lise WeilDragonroot Radio spoke with award-winning editor and translator Lise Weil. Her essays and literary nonfiction have been published widely in Canada and the U.S. She is founding editor of Dark Matter: Women Witnessing and teaches in the Goddard Graduate Institute. We speak with Lise on the upcoming event Lesbians & Queers: A dialogue. The event will be readings and presentations by local writers and artists brought together by co-hosts Lise Weil and Anna J. Weick. They include: Carole Baker, Avery Burrow, Élyanne Coursol-Dion, Myriam Fougère, River Halen Guri, Tara McGowan-Ross, Nicola Sibthorpe and Malek YalaouiLesbians & Queers: A Dialoguehttps://www.fa...2019-10-2420 min
Dragonroot MediaArticulating Desire: Our chat with Lise WeilArticulating Desire: Writing by Queer Women UPDATE: Event will now be held Friday, March 29 https://www.facebook.com/events/945595152497067/Lise Weil’s memoir In Search of Pure Lust (Inanna, 2018) takes us back to a moment in the ‘70s and ‘80s when lesbian desire was the pulsing center of an entire way of life, a culture, a movement. The memoir also traverses a series of torrid but ultimately failed relationships—until a dive into Zen practice begins to turn things around. Lise is also editor of Dark Matter: Women Witnessing an online journal publishing writing and artwork created in response to a time o...2019-03-1224 min