THE REALM OF UNREALITY Montreal Zine Launch Ticket

December 6th 2024
Doors 6:30pm
Start time 7pm
NOMAD 129 ave. Van Horne

With guest Laura Kooji, author of No Rainbow

All tickets include a copy of the zine.

Advance ticket price $20
Tickets at the door $25
Sliding scale available.
No one turned away for lack of funds.

If you buy a ticket in advance your name will be on the list and you just need to say your name at the door.

L'événement sera en anglais, mais des traductions de certains passages sélectionnés seront disponibles.

On The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women Clementine Morrigan presents her new memoir on surviving child sexual abuse and confronting the taboo of speaking about incest which prevents survivors from telling the truth about our lives.

There is no way to talk about incest without feeling that you are lying. This is because incest lives in the realm of unreality and everything in the realm of unreality cannot be thought or said or named. When you speak of things that happen in the realm of unreality it will always feel like a lie and be treated like a lie. You are breaking the fundamental rule. You are not allowed to talk about what goes on in the realm of unreality because it isn’t real.

These essays break the spell of unreality, pulling the unspeakable things from their wrapping in silence and bursting them across the page. These essays define incest as a whole family dynamic, not as a discrete dynamic between perpetrator and victim. These essays understand incest beyond sexual assault, and shine light on the many ways incest is enacted outside of physical sexual assault. These essays reveal incest as a pattern that repeats until someone faces it and transforms it. Exploding secrecy, silence, shame, and taboo, these essays tell the truth about incest.

Thank you for coming out and supporting survivors of child sexual abuse. It means so much when non-survivors are willing to join us in the work of reclaiming our power and ending the cycle of violence.