{"id":12741,"date":"2020-10-22T11:56:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T15:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=12741"},"modified":"2024-08-12T10:21:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T14:21:39","slug":"yolanda-bonnell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/yolanda-bonnell\/","title":{"rendered":"Yolanda Bonnell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Yolanda Bonnell identifies as a Queer 2-Spirit Ojibwe\/South Asian performer, playwright and poet from Fort William First Nation in Thunder Bay, Ontario (Superior Robinson Treaty Territory). She is now based in Tkar\u00f3n:to (Toronto).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Winnipeg: Scirocco Drama, 2020.
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Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n

Ma misses the sun, warmth and colors of their faraway homeland, but her daughter sees magic in everything \u2014 the clouds in the winter sky, the \u201cfirework\u201d display when she throws an armful of snow into the air, making snow angels, tasting snowflakes. And in the end, her joy is contagious. Home is where family is, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Girl traces her life from surviving the foster care system to her struggles with addictions. She fights, hoping to break the cycle in order to give her daughter a different life than the one she had. The Mother sits in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, recounting memories of the daughter that was taken from her, and the struggles of living on the streets in Northern Ontario. They are both followed by Manidoons, a physical manifestation of the trauma and addictions that crawl across generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

bug<\/em> is a solo performance\u00a0and artistic ceremony that highlights the ongoing\u00a0effects of colonialism and intergenerational trauma experienced by Indigenous women, as well as a testimony to the women\u2019s resilience and strength.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2020 Governor General’s Literary Award-Drama, English language (Finalist)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Yolanda Bonnell personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher J. Gordon Shillingford<\/a>, publisher of the Scirocco Drama imprint<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yolanda Bonnell identifies as a Queer 2-Spirit Ojibwe\/South Asian performer, playwright and poet from Fort William First Nation in Thunder Bay, Ontario (Superior Robinson Treaty Territory). She is now based in Tkar\u00f3n:to (Toronto). Drama Bug Winnipeg: Scirocco Drama, 2020.On order … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12741","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12741"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18508,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12741\/revisions\/18508"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}