Trish Salah

Trish Salah is a Canadian feminist writer and educator. Her first volume of poetry, Wanting in Arabic, was published in 2002 by TSAR Publications and reissued in a new edition in 2013. Her second book, Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 was released by Roof Books in 2014.

Salah was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and is of Lebanese and Irish Canadian heritage. She studied creative writing at Concordia University in Montreal, and subsequently completed a Ph.D. in English Literature at York University in Toronto. She currently teaches at the University of Winnipeg. Her creative and scholarly work addresses transgender and transsexual themes, as well as questions of diasporic Arab identity, anti-racism, queer politics and economic and social justice. Her poetry moves between and combines traditional and experimental forms.[1]

The 2013 edition of Wanting in Arabic won the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction at the 26th Lambda Literary Awards in 2014.[2]

Publications

Books

Lyric Sexology, Vol. I. New York: Roof Books, 2014.

Wanting In Arabic: Poems. Toronto: Tsar Publications, 2002 (Second edition, 2013).

Edited Volumes

Canadian Review of American Studies. “Special Issue on Anne Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees.” Co-edited with Sara Matthews and Dina Georgis. 35.2 (2005).

Scholarly Articles

Scholarly Articles

“From Fans to Activists: Popular Feminism enlists in ‘The War on Terror’.” Muslim Women, Transnational Feminism and the Ethics of Pedagogy: Contested Imaginaries in post-9/11 Cultural Practice. Lisa Taylor and Jasmin Zine, eds. Routledge, 2014: 152-71.

“Notes on the Subaltern.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. “Inaugural Issue: Keywords for Trans* Studies.” 1.1-2 (2014): 297-305.

“Working for Change: Sex Workers in the Union Struggle.” with J. Clamen and K. Gillies. Selling Sex: Canadian Academics, Advocates and Sex Workers in Dialogue. Emily van der Meulen, Elya M. Durisin, and Victoria Love eds. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2013: 113-129.

“Notes Towards Thinking Transsexual Institutional Poetics.” Trans/acting Culture, Writing and Memory: Essays in Honour of Barbara Godard. Eva C. Karpinski, Jennifer Henderson, Ian Sowton, and Ray Ellenwood, eds. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier Press: 2013: 167-189.

“An-Identity Poetics and Feminist Artist-Run Centers/La poétique de l’anidentité et les centres d’artistes féministes autogérés.” Féminismes électriques. Leila Pourtavaf, ed. Montreal: Les Éditions du remue-ménage/ La Centrale Gallerie Powerhouse, 2012: 81-106.

“Backlash to the Future: Re/Inscribing Transsexuality as Fundamentalism.” Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 25 (Spring 2011): 212-222.

“In Search of Permiso: Trauma and Song in Rona Bloom’s Poetry.” InFluency Poetry Salon: Engaging Conversations with Contemporary Canadian Poetry 3 (Summer 2010). Web.

“In Lieu of a Transgender Poetics.” Contemporary Feminist Poetics in Canada. Ed. Kate Eichorn and Barbara Godard. Spec. Issue of Open Letter. 13.9 (Summer 2009): 34-6.

“After Cissexual Poetry.” Contemporary Queer Poetics. Ed. Julian Brolaski. Spec. Issue of Aufgabe: Journal of Poetry. 8 (Summer 2009): 282-298.

“Trans-fixed in Lesbian Paradise: Reflections on the Toronto Women’s Bathhouse.” Sexy Feminisms. Ed. Susannah Luhmann and Rachel Warburton. Spec. Issue of Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal. 31.2 (Autumn 2007): 24-29.

“Undoing Trans Studies: Review Essay on J. Butler’s Undoing Gender and V. Namaste’s Sex Change, Social Change.” Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies.17 (Spring 2007): 150-5.

“What’s all the Yap? Reading Mirha-Soleil Ross’ Performance of Activist Pedagogy.” Spoken Word Performance. Ed. Theresa Cowan and Ric Knowles. Spec. Issue of Canadian Theatre Review. 130 (Spring 2007): 64-71.

“Introductory Notes—Memory Foretelling the Story.” with S. Matthews and D. Georgis. Ed. D. Georgis, S. Matthews and T. Salah. Canadian Review of American Studies. 35.2 (2005): 125-138.

“What Memory Wants: Broken Tongue, Stranger Fugue in Fall On Your Knees.” Ed. D. Georgis, S. Matthews & T. Salah. Canadian Review of American Studies. 35.2 (2005): 231-249.

References

  1. ↑ R. M. Vaughan, "Trans Canadian: Get lost on the highway of love", Xtra!, December 12, 2002.
  2. ↑ "Lambda Awards honor best lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender books". Washington Post, June 2, 2014.

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