{"id":14676,"date":"2021-12-31T13:31:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T18:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=14676"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:53:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:53:47","slug":"laiwan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/laiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Laiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Laiwan is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator. Born in Harare, Zimbabwe (then known as Rhodesia) to Chinese parents, Laiwan immigrated with her parents to Canada in 1977 and settled in Vancouver where she attended secondary school, followed by post-secondary education at Emily Carr College of Art and Design, and later Simon Fraser University (MFA).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tender: Selected Poems<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2020.
PS8623 .A3975 T46 2020<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Within the contours of TENDER<\/em> lie field notes from a life lived across multiple affinities, kinships, and desires. Equally visual and textual, TENDER<\/em> is a beautifully complex collection spanning thirty years of curious inquiry into our shared human\u2013animal condition. Laiwan traverses diverse terrains \u2013 the body, land, language \u2013 which are rooted in her courageous and uncompromising history of activism and in experiences of building community across and beyond difference. TENDER<\/em> offers a radical and decolonizing cleansing of all that oppresses and alienates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Anthology (Poetry)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Many Mouthed Birds<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Laiwan, \u201cThe Imperialism of Syntax.\u201d In Many Mouthed Birds: Contemporary Writing by Chinese Canadians<\/em>, edited by Bennett Lee & Jim Wong-Chu. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1991, 57-58.
PS8235.C5 M35 1991<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Laiwan personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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