A Year in Reading: Julietta Singh

How to Hold a Body

I spent most of this year reading through Canadian archives in pursuit of a strange new project, a search for traces of women who lived, worked, and studied in my childhood home before me. I have been trying to imagine through what logics I might say that their lives have shaped my own, what forms of ethical belonging and attachment we might invent to sustain life. I’m reaching for other women across time and text, across histories of race, class, and disability, envisioning a single brick and mortal space as a portal through which I might understand my connection and responsibility to place and people differently. 

My search has been mostly virtual because I’ve remained in a certain state of seclusion this past year, with a nine-year old unvaccinated